Selena Gomez, Benny Blanco Divorce? Fans Demand Singer to Dump Her Husband After 'Gross' Podcast Stunt

A bare foot, a hot mic, and a producer who seemed almost proud of both, this is what passes for celebrity scandal in early 2026. And yet within hours of the clip spreading, parts of Selena Gomez's fandom were doing what fandoms do best, escalating the drama all the way to 'divorce him.'

Here's the situation in plain terms, before the social media adds another layer of smoke: Gomez and Benny Blanco married in California on 27 September 2025; Blanco has now launched a new show called 'Friends Keep Secrets'; and the first episode's most replayed moments involve visibly dirty soles and an on-camera fart.

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It's worth saying out loud, calling for a divorce is not the same thing as reporting one. The loudest posts don't prove a marriage is in trouble; they prove that a marriage is visible.​

Still, the impulse to narrate Gomez's private life as a public referendum is familiar, and it's heightened by the fact that this is, technically, a newlywed story. Gomez and Blanco's wedding was widely reported last fall, with Gomez posting images from the ceremony and Blanco replying in the comments, 'My wife in real life.'

Readers might hear 'divorce' and think of a formal legal process—paperwork, waiting periods, and the quiet administrative grind behind a headline. But online, 'divorce him' is used more like a meme, a fast moral judgment masquerading as advice.

And what, exactly, is the alleged crime? Not infidelity. Not cruelty. The charge sheet, such as it is, is crude, the kind of gross-out performance some people still find funny, and others find unforgivable when it's attached to a pop star's husband.

Selena Gomez and the Benny Blanco Podcast Moment

The show at the centre of the uproar is Friends Keep Secrets, described on Apple Podcasts as a 'first-of-its-kind' weekly multimedia podcast from best friends Benny Blanco, Lil Dicky (Dave Burd), and Burd's wife, Kristin Batalucco, filmed with 'more than 18 hidden cameras' in the couple's Los Angeles home.​

That setup matters, because it's not a controlled studio environment—this is meant to feel like you're eavesdropping on a hang. The Hollywood Reporter framed it similarly, presenting it as Burd's latest project alongside Batalucco and Blanco, his friend and Dave co-star.​

In the debut episode, Blanco is shown lounging barefoot on a couch, and viewers quickly fixate on the dirt visible on his soles. People reported that the footage 'melted down' sections of his fanbase, precisely because the camera caught what most adults would, frankly, prefer to handle off-screen.​

Then came the moment that launched a thousand quote-tweets. Us Weekly reports Blanco asked Lil Dicky, 'What's the rule for gas [or] pissing?', received the blessing to 'do whatever you want,' and proceeded to pass gas on camera.​

Online reactions predictably split between people who saw an intentionally 'raw' comedic tone and those who read it as simply 'disgusting.' UNILAD quoted one user joking that 'Starting a podcast with a fart? That's called setting the tone... raw, unfiltered, and slightly hazardous,' while another drew a harder line, 'There's a difference between funny and gross.'​

The slightly surreal twist is that the show is also being positioned as warm, intimate friendship content rather than shock-jock chaos. In the same Us Weekly piece, Lil Dicky is quoted urging Blanco to 'just be [himself]'—and then praising him as 'the funniest guy I've ever met.'