Benny Blanco surprised his fiancé Selena Gomez with a bathtub filled with nacho cheese for Valentine’s Day.
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The producer took to Instagram on Friday (February 14) to show off the grand gesture. In a video, he shows a trail of tortilla chips that lead to his bathroom, where even more spell out “I [LOVE] YOU” on the floor.
In the clip, captioned: “When your fiancé isn’t much of a flowers girl,” Blanco goes on to show the bathtub filled with melted cheese, dip a chip inside and take a bite.
“I love everything bout this..,” Gomez wrote in the comments.
It followed the couple’s other Valentine’s Day celebration, which came in the form of the announcement of their upcoming joint album ‘I Said I Love You First’. It’s due for release on March 21, and you can pre-save and pre-order here.
They shared the lead single, ‘Scared of Loving You’ on Friday (February 14), accompanied by an official lyric video featuring footage of them together. The song was written by Blanco, Gomez and Finneas.
‘I Said I Love You First’ will chronicle the couple’s “love story” – they worked together on several of her hit songs dating back to 2015’s ‘Same Old Love’. The pair confirmed their romantic relationship in December 2023, with Gomez confirming that she had been seeing the producer for about six months. They announced their engagement in December 2024.
The new music follows Gomez confessing to fellow actor Saoirse Ronan that while she thinks she’s “a little too old for the pop star life” now, she’ll “always have music in my life because my partner’s a musician, and I love having moments to do it for fun.”
Prior to that, she said that her music career “isn’t going away”, but that she’d like to focus on acting as she gets to hold on to her “sanity” as acting would allow her to tell other people’s stories rather than her own through music.
Previously speaking to NME‘s Alex Flood to promote her latest film Emilia Perez with Zoe Saldaña, she was asked for an update on new music as her last album, ‘Rare‘, had arrived back in 2020. When asked about a new album, Gomez replied: “Well, if I had one, I would love to talk about it. I think right now it’s been really nice focusing on this side of the playing field. We’ll see, you never know.” – read NME‘s full chat with Gomez and Saldaña here.
In a three-star review of Emilia Perez, Sophia Butcher wrote for NME: “You’ve probably never seen a movie like Emilia Perez before – and whilst there is enough meat in the performances to make you somewhat glad you did, you might not want to again.”
Emilia Pérez has achieved a record 13 nominations for this year’s Oscars, including Best Film, Best Supporting Actress for Saldaña, and Best Actress for Karla Sofía Gascón – the first openly Transgender person to be nominated for the category.
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