Benny Blanco and Lil Dicky have released the second episode of their new podcast and, for the second week straight, one of the major talking points online are about the music producer’s feet.
Blanco and Lil Dicky, whose real name is Dave Burd, started the podcast Friends Keep Secrets with Burd’s wife Kristin Batalucco where they interview celebrities in a casual setting within Burd and Batalucco’s home.
The home is rigged full of cameras to allow them to move around, and the result of this after the release of the first episode was many fans focusing in on Blanco’s feet.
Blanco, who is married to Selena Gomez, didn’t wear shoes in the first episode and as a result had what can only be described as scruffy looking incredibly dirty feet.
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The second episode has seen Blanco with the same dirty feet and a major online reaction after his wife Gomez kisses them.
Gomez is the guest of the second episode, talking at length about her marriage to Blanco, her friendship with Burd and Batalucco, as well as her close friendship with Taylor Swift.
The moment however that has stood out to some viewers however comes when, amid a discussion around wanting kids and a family, Gomez kisses him on the toe.
Whilst the move might be a pretty normal show of affection on most other parts of the body, it may still have normally gone under the radar if it wasn’t for the week long discussion around his feet. As it stands though, people online are branding it as gross.
One reply to a post of the video said: “WHAT THE F*CK???? This might be the most disgusting thing i’ve ever seen.”
Whilst this might be a tad overdramatic, they are not the only viewer to feel this way. Another reply also called it ‘disgusting’, branding it a ‘humiliation ritual’.
The producer pointed out when she pecked his toe, jokingly asking Burd and Batalucco ‘you like that?’.
After she appeared embarrassed at him pointing it out, he said: “I liked it, it made me feel good, I love you so much.”
Burd pointed out the first time he saw the pair show any PDA (public display of affection) to one another, with Blanco adding: “I try in interviews with her, because I know she likes to keep it professional, I try not to show too much.
“She’s her own entity, like I want her to shine and her own independent woman. So I try so hard.
“I use every bone in my body to not be like googly eyed over her and not kiss her and jump her bones all the times.
“It’s taken a lot, so to watch her just kiss my toe just really made my day.”
Blanco was asked about his dirty grippers on Jimmy Kimmel Live! where he said: “OK, first of all, it's the facility's fault, not mine!”
He proceeded to take off his shoe to show his clean foot to the camera, with Lil Dicky adding: “It was the first day we filmed anything, so crew was coming in and out.”
The rapper said that the floors were left dirty by crew and it wasn’t actually Blanco’s hygiene. Still, maybe give them a check next time the cameras are rolling Benny.
Topics: Benny Blanco, Selena Gomez, Podcast, TV and Film, Celebrity
Michael Slavin