Did Tom Holland and Zendaya get married? Fake AI wedding photos got the truth out of him
Tom Holland's grandmother saw the wedding photos and thought she hadn't been invited.
Holland and Zendaya met making Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), where he played Peter Parker and she played Michelle "MJ" Jones, and went public as a couple in 2021. In January 2025, Zendaya walked the Golden Globes red carpet with a diamond ring on her left hand, and a source confirmed the engagement to Rolling Stone. Later that year, when a reporter called Zendaya his girlfriend, Holland corrected the reporter: "Fiancée." The couple is famously private, so the rest of the story arrived secondhand.
The stylist who said it first
On March 2, 2026, Zendaya's longtime stylist, Law Roach, was on the red carpet at the Actor Awards when Access Hollywood asked about the wedding.
"The wedding has already happened. You missed it," Roach said.
Asked if that was true, he laughed: "It's very true." Neither Holland nor Zendaya said anything. At the Oscars, when Roach was asked to clarify, he declined: "No, I said what I said."
The wedding that didn't happen
Within days, the wedding photos appeared. Digital artist Juan Regueira Rodríguez posted AI-generated images of Zendaya in a white gown and floral veil and Holland in a tux, exchanging vows in a French garden. Other images in the set showed Robert Downey Jr. among the guests and Holland holding a Spider-Man mask.
"They're married!" Rodríguez wrote. The French garden post passed 11.1 million likes in five days, putting it among the most-liked celebrity wedding photos on Instagram. He later said the images were "created with AI as an artistic recreation."
By then, a lot of people had believed it. Zendaya told Jimmy Kimmel in March what she kept hearing when she was out: "Oh my God, your wedding photos are gorgeous."
"Babe, they're AI. They're not real," Zendaya said she told them.
"Many people have been fooled by them," she said.
Kimmel didn't get a yes or a no. Zendaya was there to promote The Drama, her film with Robert Pattinson, and that's what she talked about.
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How the photos got the truth out of him
Holland's turn came in June, in a cover interview with Esquire UK. The interviewer brought up the AI images and his grandmother, who had seen them and briefly believed she'd been left off the guest list. Did he have to set the rest of the family straight?
"No, because they were all there," Holland said.
So the family didn't need telling, because the family had been at the real wedding. Holland stopped there. "That's all you'll get on that," he said.
He was more open about the marriage itself. "I found my person," he told the magazine. "She's my best friend." And: "I'm the happiest I have ever been when I'm with her."
No date, no location and no real photo has come out since. That same month, the two of them sat down together with Spain's Antena 3 while promoting Spider-Man: Brand New Day. Holland had turned 30 that month, and Zendaya's update on her husband was: "Grandpa over here!"
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