Blanco also shared the question Gomez asked him before they went public as a couple
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NEED TO KNOW
- Benny Blanco and Selena Gomez kept their relationship private for nearly nine months before going public
- The couple married in September 2025 two years after the pair began dating
- Gomez is rumored to be featured on Blanco’s upcoming Spanish-language album Hermoso, which will be released on Aug. 14
Benny Blanco and Selena Gomez had some serious conversations before they took their relationship public.
In a new interview with Spanish newspaper El País, Blanco, 38, opened up about his relationship with Gomez, 33, and his changing views on fame ahead of the release of his upcoming Spanish-language album Hermoso.
“We kept our relationship private for a long time, about eight or nine months,” Blanco shared, per the outlet.
He then revealed the important question Gomez asked him before the world knew about their connection.
“And she asked me, ‘Are you sure you want to do this? I understand if you want us to just be friends,’” he recalled. “And then I said, ‘You know what? Screw it.’ We’re lucky because we both have friends and family we’ve known since before all this, and we’re surrounded by a good group of people we love.”
Blanco says that the conversation arose, in part, due to Gomez’s celebrity.
After starring on Disney Channel’s Wizards of Waverly Place as a teen, along with numerous other Disney projects, Gomez transitioned to adult roles, including playing Mabel Mora on Only Murders in the Building. She has three Grammy nominations for her work as a pop star. Her most recent 2026 Grammy nomination was for Best Dance-Pop Recording for her song “Bluest Flame,” a collaboration with Blanco. Gomez is also the most Emmy-nominated Latina in history, thanks to her five nods for producing and one for starring in Only Murders in the Building, three for her HBO Max series Selena + Chef and one for Hotel Transylvania: Transformania.
The couple tied the knot on Sept. 27, 2025, nearly two years after going public with their relationship.
When asked about the newfound interest in the 12-time Grammy-nominated producer’s personal life after spending much of his career behind the scenes, Blanco said he’s still learning the ropes of social media culture.
“I don’t like to expose my life,” he told El País. “Famous people are under constant scrutiny: if you say one thing, it’s wrong, and if you say another, it’s also wrong.”
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Blanco added that while he would “like to have more privacy,” he belongs to “that transitional generation where social media didn’t exist when I was a child” and that he chooses to “occasionally post a picture of my wife or some delicious dish I’ve tried,” while sticking to promotional content for his music for the most part.
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Blanco’s upcoming Spanish-language album, Hermoso (which translates to “beautiful” in English), will feature a unique blend of Spanish-language music genres, including cumbia, which originated along the Caribbean coast of Colombia, he told the outlet.
Gomez is rumored to be featured on the album, and has previously released her own Spanish-language music in celebration of her Mexican heritage, including her Revelacíon EP in 2021.
“I grew up in an area with a large Latin population, so that music has surrounded me since I was a child,” Blanco shared of the inspiration for his new album. “You’d get in the car and Jeanette would be playing; in another car, cumbia would be on… I was always drawn to the drums and how the rhythms interacted with each other.”
“It’s a culture that’s always full of fresh ideas and people who aren’t afraid to go against the grain,” Blanco added of Latin culture.
The album will be released on Aug. 14, just a month ahead of his upcoming biography-meets-self-help book F–k Failure, which hits shelves on Sept. 15, and will encourage readers to pursue their passions as they follow along his own journey to success.
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