Tom Holland’s comedian father Dominic Holland opened up about his son’s engagement in a Patreon blog post
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Tom Holland‘s father Dominic is sharing details of his son’s engagement to Zendaya.
On Friday, Jan. 10, comedian Dominic Holland shared a blog post on his Patreon account in which he contrasted how Tom’s approach to proposing to Zendaya, 28, differed from how he proposed to Tom’s mom Nikki, whom he married in 1994.
Dominic wrote that the Spider-Man actor, 28, was “very incredibly well prepared.”
“He had purchased a ring. He had spoken with her father and gained permission to propose to his daughter,” wrote Dominic, who also shares Harry, Sam and Paddy with Nikki. “Tom had everything planned out… When, where, how, what to say, what to wear….”
A family source confirmed to PEOPLE on Jan. 6 that the Spider-Man costars were engaged. A separate source told PEOPLE Jan. 6 that “everyone close to them knew an engagement was happening” but not when, adding that Holland wanted to propose to Zendaya “for a while.”
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News of Holland and Zendaya’s engagement came one day after Dune and Challengers star Zendaya wore a diamond ring on her lefthand ring finger to the 2025 Golden Globe Awards.
In Dominic’s Patreon post, the father of four reflected on his engagement to Nikki in 1993, in which he recounted that he haphazardly proposed during a spur-of-the-moment trip to Amsterdam without a ring.
“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 wrote of Tom and Zendaya.
“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 Nikki 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.”
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A source told PEOPLE Jan. 6 that Holland and Zendaya plan to take their time before scheduling a wedding. “They will just enjoy things for now and won’t rush a wedding,” the source added. “They are both busy with work projects.”
The couple are set to costar in Christopher Nolan‘s next movie, an adaptation of Homer’s The Odyssey; Anne Hathaway and Matt Damon are also expected to star in the movie, as are Robert Pattinson, Lupita Nyong’o and Charlize Theron, per Deadline.
