Eight Days At Sea Is Apparently Easier Than One Flight
Mister Benny Blanco has revealed just how serious his fear of flying really is. Rather than board a plane to London, the producer is crossing the Atlantic by ship to reunite with wife Selena Gomez ahead of her 34th birthday on July 22.
Yes, a full boat. Across an entire ocean. Romance is alive, seasick and apparently carrying enough luggage for an eight-day voyage.
Blanco documented the trip with his usual humor, comparing the journey to the Titanic while explaining that he was traveling across the Atlantic to see his wife because he is scared of flying. Fortunately, this love story appears to include modern navigation, functioning lifeboats and considerably fewer icebergs.
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Selena is currently in London filming the sixth season of Only Murders in the Building, leaving Benny with two choices: face the runway or embrace the open sea. The ocean won.
This is not a new workaround for him. Blanco previously explained that getting to Europe can mean driving from Los Angeles to New York and then spending roughly eight days aboard a ship. Selena has also acknowledged that his fear is intense enough that she would be nervous flying beside him.
There is something delightfully old-fashioned about the whole situation. Benny is not merely sending flowers, arranging a video call or blaming the distance. He is boarding a vessel like a lovesick gentleman in a period drama—only with Wi-Fi, casual clothes and a social-media caption.
The grand gesture arrives less than a year after the couple married in California in September 2025. They had already spent years keeping parts of their relationship private before taking their romance public, and Benny recently admitted that fame still makes him protective of the life they share.
Apparently privacy does not prevent him from occasionally posting a journey so wildly devoted that the internet has no choice but to discuss it. Mister Blanco said no plane, no problem—and found an entirely different mode of transportation.
Benny Blanco Chooses The Atlantic Over Airport Anxiety
The producer’s unconventional birthday voyage became the latest chapter in his very public devotion to Selena Gomez.
Benny Blanco crosses the Atlantic by ship to join Selena Gomez in London ahead of her 34th birthday. Images via E! News.
So yes, he is a gentleman who sets sail for his love. Whether this is wildly romantic, wildly inconvenient or both at once depends on how many days you can tolerate staring at the same horizon.
What cannot be questioned is the commitment. Benny Blanco would rather cross an ocean the slow way than miss Selena Gomez’s birthday—and that is thee kind of relationship logistics no airline could provide.
Watch Benny Blanco Set Sail For Selena Gomez
E! News details Blanco’s Atlantic voyage, his fear of flying and the birthday reunion waiting for him in London.
Source: E! News; ELLE; People.
