Selena Gomez Engaged to Benny Blanco After One Year of Dating

Selena Gomez didn’t need to go runnin’ through the jungle to get to you, Benny Blanco.

Because as it turns out, the “Wolves” singer and the music producer—who’ve collaborated on hits like “Single Soon” and “I Can’t Get Enough”—were actually first introduced more than a decade before they started dating, leading to their engagement in December 2024.

“We both met each other like almost 16, 17 years ago,” Benny revealed in an April interview with SiriusXM Hits 1. “Obviously, we made a bunch of songs together. But before we had made any music together, I was one of her big meetings—like right around when she was just leaving Disney to make her own music. Neither one of us remembered the meeting, but her mom remembered it.”

And even after they reconnected years later, Benny didn’t expect their relationship to shift from platonic to romantic.

“It was so crazy,” he said a month later on The Howard Stern Show. “When we went out on our first date, I didn’t even know it was a date.”

“She literally asked me out,” Benny recalled to YouTuber Kai Cenat in a Nov. 19 Twitch livestream. “We were just talking, and then she was like, ‘You want to get dinner?'”

However, he didn’t need to go round and round all evening wondering where she stood. 

“We just went and got a drink first, and I didn’t even realize we were on a date,” Benny added. “She was like, ‘I would’ve worn something different to this date.’ I was like, ‘Wait, what? We’re on a date?’ I had no idea.”

And it wasn’t long before they realized they had something rare.

“We hung out two days later, and then I was like, ‘Yo, I think she likes me,'” he noted. “And then I literally just kissed her. And then the rest is history.”