Selena Gomez Recalls Arriving Too Early to Taylor Swift’s Party
Fashionably early? Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco once arrived at one of Taylor Swift’s parties before anyone else, and the couple admitted to being embarrassed by their early arrival.
“As a couple we went to Taylor’s party after some awards show,” Selena, 32, said during the couple’s appearance on Spotify’s Countdown To on Wednesday, March 19. “I don’t know. It was kind of cute, but I was mortified. Apparently cool people don’t show up to parties on time.”
Benny, 37, couldn’t help but tease his fiancée as he joked, “We’re the first people at every single party when I go with you. You show up when like my mother shows up to a party.”
He then added, “No, I thought you were gonna talk about the fact that no one knew we were dating and we were hiding.”
Selena and Benny first met when they collaborated on her 2015 single “Same Old Love,” and almost a decade later she confirmed that they were officially an item. Rumors that the two old friends had been dating began swirling in late 2023, and that December the Only Murders in the Building star confirmed that they were officially an item.
After that, the couple had no qualms about showing off their romance to the masses, and it was clear that the Wizards of Waverly Place alum was happily in love.
“Selena can’t wait for Benny to propose,” an insider shared with Life & Style in March 2024. “She’s been telling friends she’s finally found the right guy and she’s ready to walk down the aisle. There are some who fear she’s rushing into things a little bit, though. They don’t want Selena to get her heart broken.”
The source continued, “Benny is planning a romantic proposal — he’s just waiting for the right time.”
Benny was clearly smitten as well. He made a guest appearance on The Howard Stern show in May 2024, and when Howard, 71, said that he was “predicting marriage,” the “Eastside” singer all but confirmed that he was eventually going to propose to Selena.
“When I look at her … I’m always just like, ‘I don’t know a world where it could be better than this,’” Benny gushed. “People always said this to me, ‘When you know you meet your best friend,’ she truly is my best friend. … We laugh all f–king day, she inspires me. I get home from work, I think I had a good day. I’m like, ‘What did you do?’ ‘Oh I just filmed this thing with Meryl Streep and then I went to a fundraiser and now I’m recording.’ My day sounds like s–t every day compared to hers.”
In December 2024, Benny got down on one knee and asked Selena to be his wife.
The “Love You Like a Love Song” artist shared a photo of her gorgeous diamond ring via Instagram. Alongside the picture, she wrote, “Forever begins now …”
On Monday, March 17, Rolling Stone published a joint interview with the couple and it was hard to hide their excitement about their love for one another.
“I genuinely feel like this is such a special time that we get to apply it to this album and really just pour our heart into it, and completely translate what we feel and bring it to the world,” Selena told the outlet ahead of her release of their newest collab, I Said I Love You First. “That’s my main focus right now, at least.”
Benny added, “I think every day she’s planned a new wedding in her head.”