Marvel Stars Who Dated Each Other: Tom Hiddleston and Zawe Ashton, Zendaya and Tom Holland

After years of denying a romance, the Spider-Man costars made things official in 2021. “Zendaya and Tom started off as really great friends and stayed that way for a long while before things turned romantic,” a source told Us Weekly that July.

Tom Holland shared a photo of him and Zendaya for her birthday in September 2021, marking their first shared photo since they were outed as a couple. The snap earned more than 19 million “likes.”

“It’s crazy, but something we try not to think about all that much,” Holland said of the response in a December 2021 interview with PA Media. “You know, we’re here to do a job, we’re here to promote a movie that we love and we’re proud of, and we’re very lucky that we have fans that are so supportive and so invested in our lives.”

He added that Zendaya approves everything he posts, revealing, “We’re very careful with how much of our personal lives we share, so everything is something that goes through, not planning, but, like, you’re like, ‘Hey, can I post this?’ And you’re like, ‘Let me just have a look.'” The pair kept their relationship on the low-key side over the years, making rare public appearances together.

News broke of the couple’s engagement in January 2025 after Zendaya appeared on the Golden Globes red carpet with a ring on her left hand.