{"id":553729,"date":"2026-07-17T02:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T02:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/553729\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T02:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T02:56:09","slug":"benny-blanco-sails-to-europe-for-selena-gomezs-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/553729\/","title":{"rendered":"Benny Blanco Sails to Europe for Selena Gomez\u2019s Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/3f1e50a1e763ebdb256a099a6498d62f01-GettyImages-2255296789.rsquare.w400.jpg\" class=\"lede-image\" data-content-img=\"\" alt=\"83rd Annual Golden Globes - Arrivals\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>\n                  Photo: Christopher Polk\/Penske Media via Getty Images\n              <\/p>\n<p class=\"clay-paragraph\" data-editable=\"text\" data-uri=\"www.thecut.com\/_components\/clay-paragraph\/instances\/cmro6xwwk000i0igsif3n21hc@published\" data-word-count=\"59\">Imagine you simultaneously hate flying and love your wife so much that you\u2019re willing to spend eight days on a boat just to be with her on her birthday. Because that is where we find Benny Blanco \u2014 somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic, en route to Europe like Rose DeWitt Bukater, to see his wife, Selena Gomez.<\/p>\n<p class=\"clay-paragraph\" data-editable=\"text\" data-uri=\"www.thecut.com\/_components\/clay-paragraph\/instances\/cmro6z3vg001d3b7c84lhdvqe@published\" data-word-count=\"64\">On Thursday, Blanco posted a TikTok video of himself on the deck of a ship, writing, \u201cPOV ur traveling across the atlantic in the titanic to see ur wife because ur scared of flying.\u201d He added in the caption, \u201cThe things we do for love.\u201d Gomez, who turns 34 on July 22, is in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.townandcountrymag.com\/leisure\/arts-and-culture\/a71361319\/only-murders-building-season-6-filming-london-selena-gomez-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">London filming season six of Only Murders in the Building.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"clay-paragraph\" data-editable=\"text\" data-uri=\"www.thecut.com\/_components\/clay-paragraph\/instances\/cmro6zayh001j3b7c8c6hf3dg@published\" data-word-count=\"86\">The couple previously explained on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BlN7RIHu03I\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jay Shetty\u2019s podcast<\/a> that Blanco simply \u201cdoes not fly\u201d because it is a real fear of his. In order to get to Europe, Blanco said, \u201cfirst you have to drive to New York and then you get on a boat for eight days and you\u2019re on the Titanic.\u201d Blanco documented taking his first flight in eight years in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@itsbennyblanco\/video\/7626450346834939166\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TikTok<\/a>, explaining, \u201cThe last time I went to Europe, I took a boat with Ed Sheeran and we made the Divide album.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"clay-paragraph\" data-editable=\"text\" data-uri=\"www.thecut.com\/_components\/clay-paragraph\/instances\/cmro6zayi001k3b7ccsiewt64@published\" data-word-count=\"25\">Whether by air or by sea, we\u2019re just glad that, unlike the Titanic, all of Blanco\u2019s journeys across the ocean have so far been undramatic.<\/p>\n<p>          Stay in touch.<\/p>\n<p>The latest in style, self, culture, and power in your inbox.<\/p>\n<p>        Vox Media, LLC Terms and Privacy Notice<\/p>\n<p class=\"expanded-terms \" aria-hidden=\"true\">By submitting your email, you agree to our <a href=\"https:\/\/nymag.com\/newyork\/terms\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Terms<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/nymag.com\/newyork\/privacy\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Privacy Notice<\/a> and to receive email correspondence from us.<\/p>\n<p>  Related<\/p>\n<p>    <script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo: Christopher Polk\/Penske Media via Getty Images Imagine you simultaneously hate flying and love your wife so much&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":553730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[5659,321,32815,6334,269,93,61,60,8596,234193,234192],"class_list":["post-553729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-benny-blanco","tag-celebrities","tag-celebrity-marriages","tag-celebrity-relationships","tag-culture","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-selena-gomez","tag-the-titanic","tag-true-love"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/553730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}