Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco tied the knot in September 2025.Her friend and co-star Martin Short shared a new story about how he almost ruined the couple’s wedding cake by cutting into it.Luckily, the wedding coordinator and chef were able to put it back together.
Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco tied the knot in a star-studded ceremony back in September 2025—and amongst the celeb guests was Gomez’s Only Murders in the Building co-star Martin Short. Gomez previously joked that Short would play a key role in the proceedings as her ring bearer. She also shared onThe Drew Barrymore Show that “Marty is due to give a speech. I told him he must.” But as it turns out, Short’s involvement in the wedding ended up being a near-disaster—for the funniest reason.
Selena Gomez, Benny Blanco, and Martin Short at the Golden Globes.
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During an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, the actor recounted a story about how he nearly ruined the couple’s wedding cake. As he explained, he was sitting at a table with a group of people from Only Murders in the Building.
“There was a cake, a wedding cake, by our section, but it was a small wedding cake,” Short explained. “I just assumed there was a wedding cake for each section in the back.”
Martin Short, Selena Gomez, and Steve Martin filming a scene for Only Murders in the Building.
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Steve Martin, who also stars in the show, had to leave the party a little early and Short offered to cut him a slice of cake. “Maybe I’d had a cocktail. I had a fork in my hand. I said, ‘Steve, you can’t leave yet without a piece of wedding cake!’ and I cut the wedding cake with one side, cut it the other, and then all the people in our group screamed, ‘Marty!’” It turned out, he had sliced into the one and only wedding cake.
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Although Short tried to fix it “with a fork,” it was the chef who “did surgery” on the cake so that it was good as new. It was a “Hollywood wedding cake in that it was beautiful, but now it had a little work done,” Short joked.
Selena Gomez in a white lace wedding dress from Ralph Lauren.
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