Zendaya and Tom Holland Just Made Their Red-Carpet Debut As Husband and Wife
Pablo Cuadra
“One day you’re a kid and you’re at the pub with your friends, and then the next day you’re Spider-Man,” Zendaya told British Vogue in 2024, reflecting on the speed with which her then-boyfriend Tom Holland’s life changed after the pair met on the set of Spider-Man: Homecoming back in 2016. “We were both very, very young, but my career was already kind of going, and his changed overnight,” she added. “He handled it really beautifully.”
Nearly a decade on, Zendaya and Holland occupy a unique place in the celebrity firmament: among Hollywood’s most visible couples, yet one of its most guarded and unknowable. Which is perhaps why their appearance at the Spider-Man: Brand New Day photo call in Madrid this afternoon—their first red-carpet appearance together since October 2024, and their first as husband and wife—felt momentous beyond the usual promotional fanfare of two romantic leads posing for the cameras. It was a case of life imitating art (if Marvel counts as art?) imitating life.
And both of them seemed to dress with their new spouse in mind. Tom wore black Prada tailoring with a flash of a Spider-Man-red shirt beneath, while Zendaya opted for a black Christopher Cowan minidress paired with Christian Louboutin heels whose scarlet soles nodded to the same palette. The “method dressing” that Zendaya and her longtime collaborator, Law Roach, helped to institutionalise on the red carpet was there, too—albeit with a lighter touch: the asymmetrical fringe of her LBD redolent of a hundred fast-moving spider legs in motion.
For a couple that has spent nearly a decade keeping their private life private, the months ahead will be unusually public for the Holland-Colemans. The Spider-Man press tour is only just beginning, while the press tour for Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey—in which they also both star—is still to come. One day you’re a kid and you’re at the pub with your friends; the next, you’re starring in two of the biggest films on earth with your wife.
This article was originally published on Vogue.com.
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes, Zendaya and Tom Holland are married. The couple confirmed their status during their first official red-carpet appearance as husband and wife in Madrid in 2026.
Zendaya and Tom Holland made their married debut during the Madrid photo call for Spider-Man: Brand New Day, marking their first joint public appearance since late 2024.
Tom Holland wore black Prada tailoring with a red shirt, while Zendaya wore a black Christopher Cowan minidress with Christian Louboutin heels featuring their signature scarlet soles.
Zendaya and Tom Holland are set to star together in Christopher Nolan’s upcoming film The Odyssey, alongside their reprised roles in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Zendaya and Tom Holland have been romantically linked for nearly a decade, having first met on the set of Spider-Man: Homecoming back in 2016.