\u201cAnd I was like, \u2018What?\u2019 And she was like, \u2018You should be dating someone like Selena\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n
Although he and Selena were friendly but not \u201cbest friends\u201d, Benny really liked spending time with the Lose You to Love Me hitmaker.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cThere was like two times in my life where I left a specific session or late video with her where I was like, \u2018Wow, she\u2019s so cool. She\u2019s like really cool\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n
Benny even spoke \u201cso positively\u201d about the Only Murders in the Building star with an ex-girlfriend, who reached out to congratulate him and Selena when they tied the knot at the luxurious Sea Crest Nursery in Santa Barbara, California, last September.<\/p>\n
The 12-time Grammy nominee shared: \u201cAn ex-girlfriend of mine from way before that, like five years before that, I was texting with her one time and she said, \u2018You know, it\u2019s so great you guys got married\u2019. I remember you talking so positively about Selena even when we were together.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cJust as like a friendly thing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Benny confirmed that Sandra \u201cplanted the seed\u201d for him and Selena to get married, after podcast guest, Breaking Bad actor Aaron Paul, 46, wondered if his mother did.<\/p>\n
Benny added: \u201cShe was like, \u2018She\u2019s got her head on her shoulders.\u2019 She was like, \u2018She\u2019s so sweet, she\u2019s this and that.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cEveryone says you always marry your best friend. That\u2019s how it works. And she\u2019s my f***ing best friend.\u201d<\/p>\n
He and Selena started dating in mid-2023, with the latter confirming their relationship in December that year.<\/p>\n
In December 2024, the pair announced their engagement.<\/p>\n
And in September 2025, Benny and Selena got married in front of around 170 loved ones during a beautiful ceremony, officiated by Lil Dicky, who also served as best man.<\/p>\n
On a March episode of the Friends Keep Secrets podcast, Benny admitted he was \u201cso f***ing nervous\u201d and \u201canxious\u201d during the wedding.<\/p>\n
Benny said: \u201cThey start playing Selena\u2019s song. Instantly, I see you in the shadow, and I go, \u2018What\u2019s happening?\u2019 And my body, like, I started doing things where I was, like, I could feel it.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were laughing, crying, talking.\u201d<\/p>\n
Selena added: \u201cThe whole time I remember just staring at no one else but you and I kept going, \u2018It\u2019s okay, we\u2019ve got this.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cAnd I was like, \u2018What?\u2019 And she was like, \u2018You should be dating someone like Selena\u2019.\u201d Although he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":494633,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[95,9218,44487,44488,44490,430,60993,156,2082,41565,2882,156457,6178,111,139,69,28203,1974,5714,41564,45608,427,165,6859,1530],"class_list":["post-494632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-and","tag-before","tag-benny","tag-blanco","tag-blancos","tag-celebrities","tag-credits","tag-entertainment","tag-for","tag-gomez","tag-love","tag-marry","tag-mother","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-producer","tag-record","tag-romance","tag-selena","tag-sparking","tag-story","tag-their","tag-told","tag-years"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}