Tom Holland is making sure everyone knows his relationship status with Zendaya.
The Spider-Man actor, 29, corrected a reporter who accidentally referred to the Euphoria star, also 29, as Holland’s “girlfriend” during a recent panel.
“I brought my daughter, and she got to meet your girlfriend. So, I was father of the year,” the reporter said, as seen in a clip shared by a fan via X on Monday, September 29.
Holland laughed after the reporter’s slip and responded, “Fiancée.”
TMZ reported in January that Holland and Zendaya had gotten engaged over the holidays. Us Weekly reached out to reps for both actors for comment at the time.
Holland’s father, Dominic Holland, later shared via a blog post on his Patreon that Tom asked Zendaya’s father for permission before popping the question.
“He had purchased a ring. He had spoken with her father and gained permission to propose to his daughter,” he wrote. “I on the other hand was woefully ill-prepared, almost as though I wasn’t taking it seriously. I do fret that their combined stardom will amplify their spotlight and the commensurate demands on them and yet they continually confound me by handling everything with aplomb.”
Dominic, 58, continued, “And even though show-business is a messy place for relationships and particularly so for famous couples as they crash and burn in public and are too numerous to mention. With us an example, with [Dominic’s wife, Nikki Holland] helming this family and my ‘wisdom’ on tap and a study in getting things mostly wrong and yet somehow right at the same time, I am completely confident they will make a successful union.”
Tom and Zendaya met while filming Spider-Man: Homecoming in 2016, and Us confirmed in July 2017 that the pair had begun dating. The following month, Zendaya gushed that the Cherry actor was “literally one of my best friends.”
In December 2017, Us reported that Zendaya introduced Tom to her family.
“Tom has met Zendaya’s family and they love him,” a source exclusively told Us at the time. “They are still seeing each other, it’s been about a year.”
Though Tom and Zendaya’s romance stalled in the years between the first two Spider-Man films — with the former being linked to Olivia Bolton from 2019 to April 2020 and the latter spotted kissing Jacob Elordi in February 2020 — they sparked relationship rumors again in February 2021. At the time, Tom accidentally tagged Zendaya’s Instagram handle on his groin in a post.
“That was so funny; it was obviously a mistake,” the Uncharted star told British GQ. “But in all seriousness, it is also incredibly frustrating. It’s very nerve-wracking. It means that if you are dating someone, you have to be really conscious of their feelings, because if something does happen between the two of you, it’s not just happening between the two of you, it’s happening in front of the entire world. And it can be very complicated. It’s one of the things I worry about most, of all the things in my career.”
In November 2021, Tom told Total Film that he was “very happy and in love.” The following month, a source told Us that the couple was “in the best place they could be right now.”
“Going public with their relationship has made them even more strong and confident in their relationship,” he said.
Now that they’re engaged, fans have wondered when the beloved couple will walk down the aisle. However, Zendaya’s stylist, Law Roach, shared in July that the planning process has yet to begin.
“Zendaya is working on so many movies. She’s now filming the next iteration of Dune, so she’s away doing that,” Roach, 47, told E! News. “It’s so many movies, so we have time. We have a lot of time.”