Last week was a big week for Selena Gomez, and we’ll come back to that in a minute, but first, here are some photos of her and Zoe Saldaña on the weekend continuing to promote Emilia Pérez. This, of course, came right after the news about her engagement so back to that big week… 

 

It actually started with the Golden Globe nominations, two of them, for her work in both Emilia Pérez and Only Murders in the Building. And again I come back to what she’s done with her career over the last five years, it’s just been one outstanding creative choice after another. In so many different genres, from producing behind the scenes, to hit songs, to comedy to reality docuseries, to film – and that doesn’t even cover what she’s doing with Rare Beauty. 

 

And then, a few days later, she confirmed on social media that she’s engaged, which Maria posted about last Thursday. Over the weekend, though, Benny Blanco shared more on his channels about the proposal. It happened on a soundstage, he recreated a park and they had a Taco Bell picnic. 

 

Hers was the initial post on her feed and he followed with his own a couple days later: 

 

When I got engaged, back in prehistoric times, proposals were a lot less produced, and I mean for civilians, not just celebrities. Civilian proposals nowadays are often just as elaborate as the celebrity ones. For example, from what I understand, it’s important now before a proposal to make sure, either through friends or giving hints or with the timing, that the person you’re proposing to has a fresh manicure. Because of course they’re going to want to take all kinds of photos and the nails can’t be janky. Selena had a gorgeous bubble bath mani to complement her enormous ring. A marquise cut isn’t my personal favourite but that’s because it doesn’t suit me. The marquise very much suits her. 

 

So Benny made sure her hands were ready for the moment, and then produced the moment on a soundstage. Admittedly, my first reaction was that this was doing too much. Because I was thinking with my normie brain and these people, this person, Selena Gomez, is not a normie. She is or has been at various times the most followed person on Instagram, one of the most famous women of her generation. Her privacy has to be purchased – because, come on, it’s not like Selena Gomez can go to a park for a picnic and be proposed to without anyone knowing, without people noticing, and filming it, and posting it on TikTok, at which point her own proposal won’t belong to her anymore. Their only park option was the fake park option, so in that context, any asshole like me who’s all like, you’re doing too much, can sit the f-ck down. There is no reasonable way that this could have happened in just any park, as much as the people in the comments are insisting it. 

 

As for the wedding…? Presumably not during award season and award season could be happening concurrently with award season as they typically film Only Murders in the winter (those coats!) and air late summer early fall. If the season five production schedule adheres to its predecessors, Selena’s schedule will already be pretty full until at least the spring. Which opens up the opportunity for a summer wedding? 

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