Some husbands book a flight. Benny Blanco booked passage across the Atlantic Ocean.
The producer, married to Selena Gomez since September 2025, posted a TikTok showing himself aboard a ship somewhere in open water, on-screen text reading, “POV: ur traveling across the atlantic in the titanic to see ur wife bc ur scared of flying.” He captioned it “the things we do for love,” with Sam Cooke‘s 1962 hit “Nothing Can Change This Love” playing underneath.
Gomez has been in London since May filming the sixth season of Hulu‘s Only Murders in the Building, and the couple have leaned on public affection to bridge the distance. On June 10, she posted photos with Blanco and wrote that “distance means so little when someone means so much.” His current voyage, which typically takes a week or more to complete, is timed to land him in London before her 34th birthday on July 22.
This isn’t Blanco’s first transatlantic workaround. He described a similar trip to Jimmy Fallon back in 2024, made while working on Ed Sheeran‘s Divide album: “I don’t fly,” he said. “I took a boat to Europe. I literally take the Titanic to Europe. It’s the same boat, when you’re on the boat, like day three, they’re like, ‘This is where the Titanic sank.'” He added that he and Sheeran “watched Titanic in bed cuddling on the fourth night.”
Blanco has reportedly been working to face the fear directly and took his first flight in more than eight years earlier in 2026, though the ocean route remains his default for longer international travel. He and Gomez are said to aim for reunions every few weeks while she’s overseas.
The gesture arrives during a packed stretch for Blanco professionally. He’s preparing to release his new album, Hermoso, on August 14, and recently put out the single “Joven y Salvaje” with Bb trickz. None of that stopped him from choosing a week at sea over a seven-hour flight.
Well, it says a lot that Blanco would rather spend eight uncomfortable days on a boat than miss his wife’s birthday. Fans online have are already adding it to the couple’s long list of over-the-top displays, proof that the distance between London and wherever Blanco happens to be working (or docked) is never too much.
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