{"id":21904,"date":"2025-08-25T09:58:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T09:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/21904\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T09:58:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T09:58:11","slug":"selena-gomezs-fiance-benny-blanco-sparks-outrage-over-200-blueberries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/21904\/","title":{"rendered":"Selena Gomez&#8217;s fianc\u00e9 Benny Blanco sparks outrage over $200 blueberries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Selena Gomez&#8217;s fianc\u00e9 caused a stir online after indulging in fresh produce to the tune of $200 per box.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/selena-gomez-answered-high-school-volleyball-teams-request-surprise-visit-they-asked-couldnt-help-it\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Benny Blanco;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Benny Blanco<\/a>, 37, boasted about the biggest blueberries he had ever seen in a TikTok clip recently uploaded.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The music producer unveiled a black container with individually packed blueberries to his followers, only to receive criticism for the opulent fruit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/selena-gomez-wears-nothing-satin-lingerie-sultry-selfie\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Selena Gomez Wears Nothing But Satin Lingerie In Sultry Selfie;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"><strong>Selena Gomez Wears Nothing But Satin Lingerie In Sultry Selfie<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Selena Gomez wears strapless sparkling gown with fiance benny blanco in white suit\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/472b721cfc1c766bcc8eaa0f58b138e0.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Selena Gomez&#8217;s fiance, Benny Blanco, caught criticism online for indluging in luxury fruit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;This is insane. Look at this blueberry,&#8221; Blanco said in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@itsbennyblanco\/video\/7541460741849763103?lang=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:short video;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">short video<\/a> before taking a bite. &#8220;Oh my God \u2026 it&#8217;s like a f&#8212;ing meal. Can you guys even see the scale of this?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He added, &#8220;They&#8217;re f&#8212;ing huge. They&#8217;re delicious. I think the box is like, $200. That&#8217;s crazy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/foxnews.onelink.me\/xLDS\/mvaj7wvj\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Read On The Fox News App;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"><strong>Read On The Fox News App<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Fans and followers were quick to comment on the outrageous gift, and criticized Blanco for freely indulging.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Sir we&#8217;re not rich enough to relate to this,&#8221; one fan wrote, while another added, &#8220;Meantime I can&#8217;t afford regular fruit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Benny Blanco walks red carpet wearing denim hoodie\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/3e0de274bed1efbbb1484b81d0d7fe2d.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Blanco, 37, gushed over the enormous blueberries, which appeared to be a PR gift.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;This is rich rich and we&#8217;re all poor poor,&#8221; one user commented.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;$200 is 2 weeks worth of groceries for me and my family\u2026 this is nuts,&#8221; a TikTok user responded before one woman wrote, &#8220;I&#8217;m sorry.. you said $200??!!! Mr. Blanco.. I don&#8217;t have that money right now as I am still waiting for my maternity leave check to come in and i&#8217;ve been waiting for a month!!! The struggle is real out here!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Benny. There are literally people dying,&#8221; another fan wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Like What You\u2019re Reading? Click Here For More Entertainment News;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"><strong>Like What You\u2019re Reading? Click Here For More Entertainment News<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The musician, whose full name is Benjamin Joseph Levin, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/selena-gomez-announces-engagement-record-producer-benny-blanco\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:proposed to Gomez;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">proposed to Gomez<\/a> in December after dating for nearly one year.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"selena gomez and benny blanco\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/a742575c5028f1eb3e2a78feb62e133c.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Blanco proposed to Gomez in December after dating for one year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">While Selena&#8217;s coined Benny her &#8220;hubby&#8221; online, the couple hasn&#8217;t planned their wedding yet due to demanding schedules.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;That\u2019s why we both need to chill. We\u2019ve both been working so much,&#8221; Blanco told Jake Shane on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vuYRFQpTfdk\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Therapuss podcast;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Therapuss podcast<\/a>. &#8220;We got engaged, and then we were filming music videos for our album. Then it\u2019s holidays. Then right after the holidays, we had to start all the promo for our stuff, do that. Then she left to film her show \u2018Only Murders\u2019 and then I met her, then we hung out for a week, and then right after that, it\u2019s promo.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/newsletters?cmpid=fnfirstnl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Click Here To Sign Up For The Entertainment Newsletter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"><strong>Click Here To Sign Up For The Entertainment Newsletter<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He added, &#8220;And then I\u2019m writing another book, so then I had to write a book, and then she came back for one day here. And then it was my birthday, and you know &#8230; We\u2019re both working on so many things that we hadn\u2019t even had time to get into it, but we\u2019re so excited. I think this summer we\u2019re going to sit down and be like, \u2018Okay, what are we doing, hun?\u2019&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The two have been romantically paired since December 2023 but were first linked when they worked together in 2019 on the song <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/entertainment\/music\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:&quot;I Can&#039;t Get Enough.&quot;;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">&#8220;I Can&#8217;t Get Enough.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Gomez also said on the podcast that she &#8220;couldn&#8217;t be more excited&#8221; about planning their wedding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;It\u2019s just there\u2019s so much kind of happening in the moment with [him] working on some projects that he has to wrap up. And we just have things we want to finish in our own personal endeavors before we get into all the nitty-gritty.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">She added, &#8220;You know, I just have never really felt so sure about something. And I also don\u2019t want to jinx it by saying that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Original article source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/selena-gomezs-fiance-benny-blanco-sparks-outrage-200-blueberries\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Selena Gomez&#039;s fianc\u00e9 Benny Blanco sparks outrage over $200 blueberries;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Selena Gomez&#8217;s fianc\u00e9 Benny Blanco sparks outrage over $200 blueberries<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Selena Gomez&#8217;s fianc\u00e9 caused a stir online after indulging in fresh produce to the tune of $200 per&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21905,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[268],"tags":[18449,18824,434,18,117,19,17,8078],"class_list":{"0":"post-21904","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-benny-blanco","9":"tag-blueberries","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-selena-gomez"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}