The pictures showed a smiling Zendaya and Tom Holland in wedding clothes, trading vows against what looked like Lake Como. None of it was real. All of it spread anyway.
The images were AI-generated, and they appeared after Zendaya’s stylist Law Roach told Access Hollywood on the red carpet at the 2026 Actor Awards on March 1 that “the wedding has already happened” and that we “missed it.” One post on X, shared on March 4, also seemed to show Robert Downey Jr, Tobey Maguire, Andrew Garfield and Jake Gyllenhaal at the ceremony, and drew more than 100,000 likes. An Instagram dump of fake wedding-day pictures, including one of “Tom” holding a Spider-Man mask, passed 10 million likes. Its caption said the images were an “artistic recreation,” but some commenters still offered congratulations.
Now Holland has confirmed the real thing. In an interview with Esquire, he said his grandmother saw the fake photos and thought she had missed the day. Asked if other relatives needed reassuring, he replied: “No, because they were all there.” He would not add anything. “That’s all you’ll get on that.”
How the rumor built
Talk of a wedding had been building for more than a year. Zendaya was seen wearing a diamond ring on the third finger of her left hand at the 2025 Golden Globes. A few months after that, Holland called her his “fiancée” during a panel discussion in public.
Reaction to his confirmation has mostly been happy. Some fans posted emotional messages, and one TikTok user wrote, “True love does exist.” Others reposted pictures of the couple and called their recent appearances the first as husband and wife.
Why people believed the fakes
The couple rarely share details of their relationship. That leaves a gap, and fans fill it with what they hope is true. People tend to believe a post when it shows something they want, and misleading posts often go viral because their images are built to catch the eye.
Not everyone bought it. One Instagram commenter wrote, “AI slop getting 10 million likes… what has the world come to.” Another asked, “It’s real?”
Holland and Zendaya are not the only ones this has happened to. YouTuber Joe Sugg recently spoke out after AI images online showed him and his partner Dianne Buswell with a newborn, when she had not yet given birth.
