Benny Blanco has addressed an unexpected debate about his cleanliness after viewers fixated on an unflattering detail in a recent video.
The producer and songwriter stopped by Jimmy Kimmel Live! earlier this week alongside his friend Lil Dicky to talk about their new podcast, Friends Keep Secrets, which launched on 24 February with Lil Dicky’s wife, Kristin Batalucco.
But as clips from a recording circulated online, some fans became more interested in what they considered a “very dirty” detail — something Kimmel made sure to bring up during the interview.
When the host welcomed Blanco and Lil Dicky (real name Dave Burd), he referenced the online chatter, setting up Blanco to respond by showing his foot to make his case.
The whole thing began after viewers noticed Blanco’s feet while he was sitting on the couch during the podcast recording.
“Good podcast, wash your feet benny and wash the floors,” one fan commented on YouTube, while someone else noted: “THEM DIRTY A** FEET “, adding several crying laughing face emojis.
By the end of the conversation on Kimmel’s show, the host brought the topic back up.
“Dave and Benny are here, and I neglected something important because there is something that turned up as people were watching your multimedia experience,” the host said. “People seem to be fascinated with the idea that Benny’s feet are very dirty.”
“I noticed that too, Jimmy,” said Lil Dicky, as Blanco pushed back and suggested the setting — Dave’s place — was to blame.
“First of all, it’s the facility’s fault,” he declared. “It’s not mine.”
“I have great feet,” Blanco added, before removing a sock to show what he insisted was a clean foot.
“Someone zoom in on my foot,” he asked.
“Look at that clean foot. Look at that! Are you kidding me?” Blanco continued, to which Kimmel replied: “You should get an OnlyFans for that thing, I mean… It’s beautiful.”
Lil Dicky then offered some context for why it may have looked that way, explaining: “It was the first day we filmed anything, so crew was coming in and out,” and adding that the floor “probably was a little bit” dirty.
Kimmel followed up by asking Blanco directly, “So, you’re saying that Dave’s floors are not clean.”
Both hosts agreed that was the likely explanation, though Lil Dicky was quick to clarify it was only an issue on the day in question.
“On a few of the days it’s been dirty,” Blanco pointed out, as Kimmel joked he wasn’t trying to “drive a wedge” between the two friends.
“You know how floors get,” he added.