Tom Holland and Zendaya… am I supposed to believe this is a real couple?

I’m not trying to be mean, but it’s giving PR relationship. And not just because they’re mismatched physically. They just don’t have couple energy or body language. Ever.

They've been dating for about 5 years supposedly so I guess there must be something that works for them. Though I admit I have a hard time believing they've ever seen each other naked.

He looks like he brushes her hair for her and organizes her drawers.

If he can play a super hero like Christopher Reeve or Jason Momoa, then he can certainly date Zendaya.

Is that his mommy?

Like she can get a tall, hot ass man. Maybe she’s a personality girl, attracted to personality over all.

R4 he isn’t playing Superman or Aquaman, who are built like Gods. He’s playing 16 year old Peter Parker from Queens.

He looks like her little gay brother.

Mismatched in every way. It’s so funny to look at

With his father

[quote] he isn’t playing Superman or Aquaman, who are built like Gods. He’s playing 16 year old Peter Parker from Queens.

That’s better? How old is he?

He is a tiny gay boy who spent his first three Spiderman movies humping RDJ's leg.

At least he has a tight little body and a lucrative career. It would be even less believable if he was a fatty or was poor.

I’m surprised this bearding relationship has lasted this long. But it fits their image as young sexless stars.

R11 the point is he doesn’t have to be built like they do for their parts. Comparing him to them is silly. They have to bulk up and look like Gods for their roles. He has to look like a teen.

R13 what does he have outside of Spider-Man? He just got cast in a Nolan film but that won’t be out for another 2+ years. He has nothing else.

“Lucrative career”

Sweetie, he played Spider-Man and still literally no one cares about him. They swarm her. He has to come pull her out of it. No one cares about him.

I am a gay man but goddamn she is so much hotter than he is

He's the Millennial Mickey Rooney.

Zendaya is a lesbian.

Not sure about Tom's sexuality, but he an his "best friend' Harrison Osterfield have more chemistry than Tom and Zendaya.

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Two guys standing next to each other isn’t an exhibit of homosexuality.

[quote] Two guys standing next to each other isn’t an exhibit of homosexuality.

I agree!

I’d much rather see the duo in R24 have sex. Z is just too much woman for him, even if they are a real couple. He is adorable but barely a Tall. She needs at least a Venti, maybe a Grande.

R26 that’s Taron. Not Tom.

R2 I was going to say if it is a PR relationship it’s a long ass one. I don’t think she will ultimately marry him but I think they had a genuine teen romance that blossomed as their careers blossomed. I think they are actually friends first and will remain friends even after they break up.

The world’s hottest woman with a gay midget who looks 14 years old. Totally believable.

It looks like a customer from the suburbs posing with a drag queen at a show.

Some of you live and die by some of the most outdated stereotypes of all time. Which is weird and wildly ironic when one is supposed to be apart of LGB culture.

He's a musical theatre star too!

Zendaya likes it when Tom dresses up as a woman....

Hes a rich movie star. And if he was taller it would change your perception? To be fair, if a PR company was setting up a perfect bearding couple they probably would have not gone with these 2, because they look odd. I think maybe they are both gay and not together out of a PR match but a natural friendship that protects them in a homophobic world.

She’s also rich and way more famous.

[quote] I think maybe they are both gay and not together out of a PR match but a natural friendship that protects them in a homophobic world

We have a winner!

She's 5'10" (6'1" in heels) so he's 5'7"?

It’s never made any sense.

I think Matt Damon should look into this for us.

She may have the body of a siren, but her affect is butch and lesbionic.

He's very cute and likeable. I also give him props for not wearing lifts and just going with Zendaya, in her high heels.

I think his real lover is that male best friend he often lives with over the years. Not Jacob Batalon.

Harrison Osterfield

Zendaya seems asexual or a downlow lesbian. She has zero chemistry with her male costars.

R43 You need to watch Malcolm & Marie. I don’t know why they won’t give her black or at least manly male leads/love interests.

[quote] He's very cute and likeable. I also give him props for not wearing lifts and just going with Zendaya, in her high heels.

She can use him as a leaning post for when her feet get tired from wearing high heels.

her affect is butch and lesbionic

her affect is butch and lesbionic

R46 - about Zenday

and R47 about Tommie

R44 because she’s a pretty biracial girl whose look is not very “black” which makes her marketable to white audiences and she has a predominantly white fanbase. Giving her white love interests is more marketable than giving her a black male lead, especially to foreign markets.

R49 I mean I get it, I just hope they don’t routinely do this via Halle Berry and JLo. It’s dumb and she lacks chemistry with these soft ass white boys.

r25 To be fair everyone assumed they were gay because Hollands one demand on getting made Spider-Man was "please can I bring my posh fashion obsessed best friend along as an assistant to live with me?" obviously the internet just assumed they were fucking until he quit, and Tom started publicly dating Zendaya.

She definitely always has more chemistry with black guys than white guys, even back in her Disney days. In real life a lot of her close friends are black. Her assistant is a gay black guy (who she got a part in Challengers). I do feel she had chemistry with Josh O’Connor though. Mike Faist, not really.

I just feel like Hollyweird feels like two black leads will make the film a “black movie” especially if the star is a black female whom they are trying to make A list. But it’s just unrealistic. As more common and beautiful as interracial couples are, most black women are still with black men, even those that look like Zendaya. I think even American audiences are turned off by this forced progressiveness. American tastes always dictate shit around the world. That’s why these films don’t even be making that much money. I call BS. They can sell the film if it’s good with two beautiful black leads. Or dayum least make the brother a brown Latino lol.

R53 she isn’t black. She is biracial. Outside of the USA she isn’t “black”. The world doesn’t have the one drop rule. That’s an American thing.

R54 I know but she is not playing a foreign character. She’s is playing a black American biracial woman. Look at her daddy. You mean to tell me they can’t EVER pair her with Michael B Jordan, Jessie T. Usher, Jeremy Pope, Daniel Kuluywe etc. It is a cop out.

She is biracial. Meaning half black half white. And she looks mixed. Most wouldn’t even think she’s black if she was walking down the street and unknown. Her “black” isn’t black. Lupita is black. Viola is black. Hell, even Beyonce is black. Zendaya is MIXED.

Halle Berry was routinely opposite black men and then she won that mafuckin Oscar and ain’t had a chocolate man since. And the films mostly been trash. Though Gothika is highly underrated. Charles Dutton did play her husband in that film.

R46 I disagree with that sentiment. So we can agree to disagree. She very much looks black— half black, half white to me.

ActuallyI would think Zendaya was a black Puerto Rican if I didn’t know about her background or had ever seen her parents.

[quote]They look like besties who enjoy each others company at best.

That's kind of what happens after 5 years, isn't it?

Get a life, Matt-facto.

Oh god, it’s the defacto obsessed troll. You must be uglier than him.

Puerto Rican. Not “black” Puerto Rican. Having some color doesn’t make you black r59. Time for an education.

Zendaya wouldn’t be deemed black in Puerto Rico.

R63 I know what I’m saying. My mom’s people are Cuban. Some of them are black looking, though very fair skin, and some of them look full white like Italians. There are a such thing as black Puerto Ricans. Rosie Perez, the actor playing Aaron Hernandez’s dad in Crime story. JLo is not a black a Puerto Rican but she’s not a white Puerto Rican either, not naturally. She can present white though.

[quote] Sweetie, he played Spider-Man and still literally no one cares about him. They swarm her. He has to come pull her out of it. No one cares about him.

If nothing else, if I looked like her I would insist on a large, strong man just for protection. I don't understand it, she really could have anyone she wanted. Maybe he's got a massive cock.

R64 you are correct. Not in PR. She would just be regular looking. But in the states and NYC she would be considered one. Her hair is too nice for her to be deemed a black Puerto Rican on the island.

She would just be deemed Puerto Rican. No one says “black Puerto Rican” or “white Puerto Rican” unless they look like Viola Davis or Cameron Diaz.

Puerto Rican here. I’ve NEVER heard a Puerto Rican say “black Puerto Rican”. It’s simply Puerto Rican. Another white person trying to pass shit onto us that doesn’t exist.

[quote] She is biracial. Meaning half black half white...Zendaya is MIXED.

Referring to a human being as "half"-anything is retrograde.

R69 I mean I know it’s not commonly said but we’re discussing race here. Where are you from? I wouldn’t go around calling her a black Puerto Rican, just generally. But wouldn’t you agree Rosie Perez is a black Puerto Rican just as Laz Alonso is a black Cuban.

In general whenever Latinos of color qualify their race they don’t say black and then their country, they just call themselves Afro-Latino.

I don’t know if one of these applies or not.

She's not all that pretty out of the bespoke clothes et beaucoup de fard. I give her props for keeping that low hairline. Rita Hayworth was not allowed to do the same.

Oh, come on. She looks better all dolled up the same as anyone does, but her "all dolled up" is pretty fucking good.

I could buy them as a bearding couple.

R70 but that’s what biracial people are. Biracial. Stupid comment from you.

I agree she is pretty, all dolled up. You realize I was peaking about the opposite state. Sans fard. Where she is kind of unremarkable. Just pleasant.

That’s all starlets.

But not everyone looks good dolled up either. That’s the difference. They’re photogenic

[quote] Tom Holland Acted as Zendaya’s Security Guard When She Was Circled By Paparazzi

Tom Holland is not just Zendaya’s costar turned boyfriend, he’s also her bodyguard.

On October 24, the 28-year-old actor was forced to step in when the Euphoria star was swarmed by paparazzi…at least that’s how it looks in multiple videos currently going viral on social media. In one video shared by photographer Jackson Lee, Holland appears to walk ahead of Zendaya before turning around and physically pushing through a crowd of photographers that had circled around her while she signed some autographs for fans.

“What a gentleman,” Lee captioned the video, a sentiment many of the commenters agreed with. “Who needs bodyguards when you are dating Spiderman,” one user commented. Another noted that Lee was technically part of the “hoard.”

In separate video going viral on TikTok, one photographer could even be heard telling the actor, “It’s okay, Tom,” as he escorts his partner out of the fray. Is it?! As one commenter wrote, “I felt super claustrophobic just watching this. He probably felt extreme panic and anxiety at that moment.”

Meanwhile, Zendaya seems unruffled, as ever, seeming to mouth her own assurance to Holland as her paid security guard attempts to control the situation.

For the most part, fans swooned over the actor’s protective instincts, throwing around plenty of Spider-Man references. “His Spidey sense kicked all the way in. He do not play about her and I love it,” one fan commented on the TikTok post. Another wrote, “Oh he went through SWINGING for her. I love that.” We get it! He’s Spider-Man!

Anyway, Tom Holland wasn’t the only one going viral for an act of love on October 24. Earlier in the day, Zendaya was photographed wearing a BERO hat in honor of the nonalcoholic beer company founded by Holland. Clearly, they have each other’s backs.