Selena Gomez Says Fiancé Benny Blanco Likes When She Watches Him Cook: He 'Loses Himself in Cooking and I Love That'

Selena Gomez is opening up astir what it's for illustration to unrecorded pinch a foodie!

On Tuesday, Sept. 9, Gomez made an quality connected the Good Hang pinch Amy Poehler podcast and elaborate fiancé Benny Blanco's nutrient obsession.

"I don't cognize if he'd admit this — but he likes erstwhile I beryllium successful nan room pinch him because he tells maine what he's doing," Gomez, 33, told Poehler, 53. "And I deliberation it's nan cutest point successful nan world because I'll beryllium location and go, 'Now what?'"

She added, "He wholly loses himself successful cooking and I emotion that. I conscionable deliberation it's truthful endearing."

Though she has her ain cooking show, Selena + Chef, nan Only Murders successful nan Building character said she's nary expert.

"I bask cooking, I really do. I conscionable find it very intimidating to do pinch Benny because he's conscionable really bully astatine it," she said. "It's almost conscionable excessively threatening."

"So 1 clip I made meal pinch my friends and he sewage truthful offended — he was like, 'Why haven't you done that for me?' I'm like, 'Because excavation was stiff and I conscionable added a sauce!'" she quipped.

The 1 look she does cognize well? Her "Nana's chickenhearted and dumplings."

Gomez announced her engagement to nan euphony producer via an Instagram carousel in December 2024. The two began making love successful June 2023.

In March 2024, Blanco revealed nan dish he makes astir for Gomez during an quality connected  TalkShopLive.

“She's a immense steak fan. So thing that has steak successful it. Or, yesterday I conscionable brought her, it's not successful my book, but I brought her, she loves soup,” said Blanco, who published Open Wide: A Cookbook for Friends successful April 2024.

He continued, “She was shooting a show yesterday truthful I made a small crockery and I brought it complete to her.” 

At nan time, he besides said that they navigator together "every day."

“We ever navigator together, she's specified a bully cook. Like it's not conscionable for her show, she's an unthinkable cook,” he added. “We person truthful overmuch nosy cooking together. All we do is eat," he added.

Meanwhile, successful May of this year, Blanco said he would want Gomez’s maize casserole to beryllium astatine his “last supper" connected Table Manners pinch Jessie and Lennie Ware.

“We’re large connected casserole,” Gomez said, explaining that it’s for illustration a saccharine cornbread. 

“It’s delicious,” Blanco said, adding that his mom utilized to make her ain loop of Gomez’s crockery for him, too. “It doesn't person nan aforesaid density [as maize bread], it’s overmuch looser.”