{"id":2394759,"date":"2026-04-29T16:33:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T16:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2394759"},"modified":"2026-04-29T16:33:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T16:33:42","slug":"benny-blanco-on-why-selena-gomez-cant-believe-his-reaction-to-online-hate-he-gets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/benny-blanco-on-why-selena-gomez-cant-believe-his-reaction-to-online-hate-he-gets\/","title":{"rendered":"Benny Blanco on Why Selena Gomez \u2018Can\u2019t Believe\u2019 His Reaction to Online Hate He Gets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-journey-body=\"standard-article\">\n<hr data-node-id=\"0\" class=\"css-18pb4rg emevuu60\"\/>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"1\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\"><strong data-node-id=\"1.0\">THE RUNDOWN<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul data-node-id=\"2\" class=\"css-kw9lqy emevuu60\">\n<li aria-level=\"1\" style=\"list-style-type:disc;\" data-node-id=\"2.0\">Benny Blanco and Barry Keoghan spoke on <em data-node-id=\"2.0.1\">Friends Keep Secrets<\/em> about the mean comments they\u2019ve received about their appearance.<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\" style=\"list-style-type:disc;\" data-node-id=\"2.1\">Blanco told the actor that he is unfazed by people calling him \u201cugly,\u201d sharing one post he found funny featuring him, Keoghan, Taylor Swift\u2019s fianc\u00e9 Travis Kelce, and Ariana Grande\u2019s partner Ethan Slater.<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\" style=\"list-style-type:disc;\" data-node-id=\"2.2\">The music producer revealed that even Gomez is surprised by how he handles the online hate he receives.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr data-node-id=\"3\" class=\"css-18pb4rg emevuu60\"\/>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"4\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">Benny Blanco is aware of the comments people make about his appearance, especially in comparison to his wife Selena Gomez\u2014and he also knows he copes with the criticism differently than other people with famous, beautiful partners.<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"5\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">On his podcast <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Cpz2k4676tY\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Cpz2k4676tY\" data-vars-ga-ux-element=\"Hyperlink\" data-vars-ga-call-to-action=\"Friends Keep Secrets\" data-node-id=\"5.1\" class=\"body-link css-1xnf0nh emevuu60\"><em data-node-id=\"5.1.0\">Friends Keep Secrets<\/em><\/a>, Blanco and guest Barry Keoghan, who faced similar scrutiny while <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.elle.com\/culture\/celebrities\/a46398999\/barry-keoghan-sabrina-carpenter-relationship-timeline\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.elle.com\/culture\/celebrities\/a46398999\/barry-keoghan-sabrina-carpenter-relationship-timeline\/\" data-vars-ga-ux-element=\"Hyperlink\" data-vars-ga-call-to-action=\"dating Sabrina Carpenter\" data-node-id=\"5.3\" class=\"body-link css-1xnf0nh emevuu60\">dating Sabrina Carpenter<\/a>, spoke about how they feel about the noise.<\/p>\n<section data-embed=\"watch-next\" data-lazy-id=\"P0-16\" data-node-id=\"6\" class=\"embed\"\/>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"7\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">\u201cThere is a lot of hatred about me for just looking like this,\u201d Keoghan said.<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"8\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">\u201cI want to tell you something though, because I\u2019m a guy who couldn\u2019t be talked about more,\u201d Blanco told him.<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"9\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">Keoghan then cut in, asking him if he saw a post with their faces together that had 20 million views, \u201cbeing like, \u2018How ugly are they?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"10\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">\u201cOh my God. Dude, you\u2019re hot,\u201d Blanco objected. \u201cYou\u2019re much hotter than me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"11\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">He stressed that Keoghan is a \u201cmovie star,\u201d adding, \u201cI have never even seen a bad thing about you.\u201d He then brought up a post that a few of his friends sent him that poked fun at him, Keoghan, and two other men dating pop stars: Ariana Grande\u2019s partner, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.elle.com\/culture\/celebrities\/a62043207\/ariana-grande-ethan-slater-relationship-timeline\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.elle.com\/culture\/celebrities\/a62043207\/ariana-grande-ethan-slater-relationship-timeline\/\" data-vars-ga-ux-element=\"Hyperlink\" data-vars-ga-call-to-action=\"Ethan Slater\" data-node-id=\"11.1\" class=\"body-link css-1xnf0nh emevuu60\">Ethan Slater<\/a>, and Taylor Swift\u2019s fianc\u00e9, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.elle.com\/culture\/celebrities\/a45378530\/taylor-swift-travis-kelce-relationship-timeline\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.elle.com\/culture\/celebrities\/a45378530\/taylor-swift-travis-kelce-relationship-timeline\/\" data-vars-ga-ux-element=\"Hyperlink\" data-vars-ga-call-to-action=\"Travis Kelce\" data-node-id=\"11.3\" class=\"body-link css-1xnf0nh emevuu60\">Travis Kelce<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"12\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">\u201cI find it very funny where it\u2019s like me, you, and Travis Kelce, and then like the guy who Ariana dates, and it\u2019s like, \u2018Which one of these like ugly bastards would you want to date?\u2019\u201d Blanco said. \u201cAnd then they\u2019re like, \u2018Their girlfriends.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"13\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">\u201cI don\u2019t mind that,\u201d Keoghan said.<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"14\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">On a more serious note, Blanco then acknowledged the emotional toll of the remarks. \u201cThese things sometimes in our heads seem so fucking huge,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m not gonna lie to you; I\u2019m sure it\u2019s huge.\u201d Blanco, however, said that he is \u201cnot a comments guy and when I do [see them], when like [my friends will] tell me, [it\u2019s] because they know I have like the thickest skin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"15\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">He also revealed that his ability to be so unfazed surprises Gomez, who is more affected by the comments about him.<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"16\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">\u201cSelena will come to me, and she\u2019ll be like, \u2018I can\u2019t believe how well you can [cope]\u2019\u2014she\u2019s like, \u2018I\u2019ll see things, and I\u2019ll want to write back in the comments about things,\u2019\u201d he said. \u201c[But] I have a very unique perspective. For me, I became really big in a certain field when I was 17, 18 years old. I\u2019d been doing it publicly since I was a kid. Then I got to help all these other stars get their thing going. I didn\u2019t become famous until 2020. So it\u2019s only been like six years for me\u2026.I got famous and then I was like, I don\u2019t like this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"17\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">Watch the full episode below:<\/p>\n<section data-embed=\"youtube\" data-lazy-id=\"P0-17\" data-node-id=\"18\" class=\"embed\"\/><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.elle.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE RUNDOWN Benny Blanco and Barry Keoghan spoke on Friends Keep Secrets about the mean comments they\u2019ve received about their appearance. Blanco told the actor that he is unfazed by people calling him \u201cugly,\u201d sharing one post he found funny featuring him, Keoghan, Taylor Swift\u2019s fianc\u00e9 Travis Kelce, and Ariana Grande\u2019s partner Ethan Slater. 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