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Topics: Benny Blanco, Celebrity, Music, Social Media
Britt Jones
Topics: Benny Blanco, Celebrity, Music, Social Media
Benny Blanco has online users up in arms again just 24 hours after his previous scandal, but this time has people claiming he is ‘evil’.
Blanco’s podcast has been causing a stir after people tuned in to see what the music producer and his friends do when mulling about in their home.
Apparently, it’s asking hypothetical questions that can get you into major trouble if your answer is unsavoury.
The 37-year-old and Dave Burd (Lil Dicky), and his wife, Kristin Batalucco, officially launched their Friends Keep Secrets show yesterday – which meshes a podcast format with some sort of sitcom.
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But Blanco might be wishing he’d kept this one thing a secret after social media users hit back at the answer to which person, dead or alive, would he like to bring on to his show.
Blanco said ‘Hitler’.
'I would love to bring Hitler here', 'I don't think he takes anything back', 'I would ask: "what was the deal?,"' the song maker told Batalucco in Burd’s home, which is the location of their new show – as it’s rigged with a number of cameras.
Instead of revealing his want to speak with a celebrity, he instead said he wants to talk to Adolf Hitler, the man who ordered the deaths of Jewish people, invaded Poland, and led World War II.
Blanco, who is Jewish himself, left people online stunned by his admission on the new podcast.
Social media users were quick to call him out, with one person writing: “Isn’t he Jewish? Imagine as a Jewish man wanting to sit down with the person responsible for the holocaust.”
Another said: “He is pure evil.”
Someone else said: “I honestly don’t get the deal with him. That’s the dumbest thing I’ve heard today.”
Others called out his wife, Selena Gomez for marrying him, and some simply called him ‘racist’.
However, what people can also see in the clip is that Batalucco actually said she’d bring Hitler on as a guest first, asking if there would be any ‘value’ to it.
That’s when Blanco agreed with her, telling her that was his answer too.
She went on to say she wanted to talk to him to see if he would take ‘it all back’, to which her husband, and Blanco both denied that he would take anything back.
But that’s not the only controversy the show has had, as moments into its first episode, Blanco was seen lying on a gray sofa with his legs out, displaying the bottom of his feet, which appeared to be dirty.
Viewers were not impressed.
Tyla reached out to the representatives of Benny Blanco, Dave Burd, and Kristen Batalucco for comment.