Surely you’ve heard the rumors that longtime couple Zendaya and Tom Holland recently got hitched. Zendaya definitely has and on Monday night (March 16) she got her first chance to set the record straight when she visited Jimmy Kimmel Live! to promote her upcoming film with Robert Pattinson, the wedding drama, The Drama.
“I’m sure you know the internet has gone berserk with stories that you might actually be married to Tom,” Kimmel said about the rumor overdrive that was kicked off when Z’s longtime stylist and friend told Access Hollywood earlier this month that the couple who began dating in 2017 were already hitched. “The wedding has already happened,” Law Roach claimed at the time in a mischievous tone. “You missed it.”
Except, according to Zendaya, it didn’t. Maybe.
“Really?” Zendaya responded with a sarcastic smile to Kimmel about the rumors. “I haven’t seen any of them.” Kimmel mentioned the seemingly AI-generated wedding photos of the couple that made the rounds a few weeks ago and Zendaya was quick to note that “many people have been fooled by them.”
While Z was just out there living her life, people kept coming up to her and saying, “‘Oh my God, you’re wedding photos are gorgeous!’,” to which she would respond, “‘Babe, they’re AI. They’re not real. They’re not real.’”
Even people in her real life were fooled by the pics and, not for nothing, mad that they didn’t get invited to the wedding the Euphoria star said didn’t happen. To clear up the confusion, Zendaya brought along a video featuring footage from the alleged wedding, only it was a doctored scene from The Drama with Holland’s head clumsily pasted on top of Pattinson’s as the happy couple posed for wedding pics with family. When Kimmel noted that the video closely resembled a scene in the film, Z had jokes.
“Yeah, it was a beautiful day,” she said sarcastically, as Kimmel noted that it almost looked as if someone had “crudely pasted” Holland’s head into the scene. “No, that was real footage,” the actress said with practiced sincerity, denying the host’s claim that it was yet another AI mirage. “No, that was real,” she assured him. “I was there.”
The couple, who reportedly began dating after the actress played MJ to Holland’s Peter Parker in Spider-Man: Homecoming in 2017 and then Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019) and Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) — as well as the upcoming Spider-Man: Brand New Day — have always been circumspect about their status.
Reports surfaced in January 2025 that the couple had gotten engaged, with neither one confirming it until months later, when Holland corrected a journalist who referred to Zendaya as his “girlfriend” rather than “fiancée” at a September press junket.
Whether they’re married or not, the happy couple have a number of projects in the works, including Zendaya’s return as Rue on the third and final season of Euphoria, which premieres in April, when she will also hit movie theaters in The Drama. She and Holland will then appear together in Christopher Nolan’s highly anticipated The Odyssey (July 17) and Marvel’s Spider-Man: Brand New Day (July 31).
Watch Zendaya on Jimmy Kimmel Live! below.
