Tom Holland’s grandmother saw the wedding photos online and figured she had been left off the guest list. The photos were fake. The wedding, it turns out, was real.
Holland told Esquire UK that he and Zendaya are married, ending months of speculation. The subject came up because AI-generated wedding images of the couple had gone viral. Asked whether he had to have the same conversation with other relatives, he answered: “No, because they were all there.” Then he closed the door. “That’s all you’ll get on that.”
He did say more about the marriage itself. “Our business can present very stressful situations and it’s really nice to have a bedrock of a relationship that will stand the test of time,” Holland said. “I found my person. She’s my best friend, and I’m the happiest I have ever been when I’m with her, but I have also never felt so supported and safe, ever. Period.”
Clues from the spring
The couple’s engagement was confirmed in January 2025. The marriage rumors picked up on March 1, when Zendaya’s stylist, Law Roach, spoke at the Actor Awards. “The wedding has already happened. You missed it!” he said. Zendaya wore a new gold band next to her engagement ring at the event.
Her mother, Claire Stoermer, shared footage of the interview on her Instagram Story with the message “The laugh….”, without confirming or denying anything.
The band kept turning up. A24 released photos and video on March 5 promoting Zendaya’s film “The Drama,” and she wore her engagement ring over a plain band, where her character, Emma Harwood, wears different jewelry in other promotional material. Five days later she was photographed outside the Louis Vuitton show at the Louvre during Paris Fashion Week with the gold band on her left hand and the diamond absent.
A private pair
Holland and Zendaya met on “Spider-Man: Homecoming” in 2016 and appeared together again in “Far from Home” in 2019 and “No Way Home” in 2021. They have mostly kept the relationship out of view. “Our relationship is something that we are incredibly protective of and we want to keep as sacred as possible,” Holland told The Hollywood Reporter in June 2023.
Both are in Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey,” which opens in theaters July 17. Their next Marvel film, “Spider-Man: Brand New Day,” follows on July 31.
