Selena Gomez didn’t have to go runnin’ via the jungle to get to you, Benny Blanco.
As a result of because it seems, the “Wolves” singer and the music producer—who’ve collaborated on hits like “Single Quickly” and “I Can’t Get Sufficient”—have been truly first launched greater than a decade earlier than they began relationship, resulting in their engagement in December 2024.
“We each met one another like nearly 16, 17 years in the past,” Benny revealed in an April interview with SiriusXM Hits 1. “Clearly, we made a bunch of songs collectively. However earlier than we had made any music collectively, I used to be one in every of her large conferences—like proper round when she was simply leaving Disney to make her personal music. Neither one in every of us remembered the assembly, however her mother remembered it.”
And even after they reconnected years later, Benny didn’t anticipate their relationship to shift from platonic to romantic.
“It was so loopy,” he mentioned a month afterward The Howard Stern Present. “Once we went out on our first date, I didn’t even comprehend it was a date.”