SPIDERMAN’S KINGSTON-BASED FATHER CONFIRMS SUPERSTAR’S ENGAGEMENT ON HIS SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM
The Kingston-based father of Hollywood superstar Tom Holland has taken the unusual step of confirming the engagement of the Spider Man actor to his long-term American actor partner Zendaya on his personal paid-for blog platform called Patreon, it has emerged.
Comic and author, Dominic Holland, who lives in Coombe Park, Kingston, writes: “I could serve up scoop after scoop and any revelations would attract thousands, even millions of new Patrons and a gargantuan income. More money than my jokes or books have ever mustered, albeit at the cost of my close and happy family.
“The big news this week is a good example of just such an opportunity for me – are they/aren’t they engaged? Zendaya wearing a ring and Tom nowhere to be seen adding to the intrigue.
“The engagement has now been confirmed and why I am writing about it here but without adding anything new and juicy like a date, venue, guest list…”
Tom and his wife to be Zendaya, both aged 28, have independently established themselves as A-listers in Hollywood but are believed to have bought their first home, close to Tom’s family – a large house near Richmond Park, where the couple have been spotted walking their dog.
Dominic’s £3.50 post continued: “Down the years, I have been showered with parenthood praise even though much of it has been fluke and happenstance more than any finely honed plan. And this I can demonstrate now by contrasting the different approaches of father and son to proposing marriage.
“Tom, as you know by now was very incredibly well prepared. He had purchased a ring. He had spoken with her father and gained permission to propose to his daughter. Tom had everything planned out…
“When, where, how, what to say, what to wear…
“For most blokes, the stress of purchasing an engagement ring is being able to afford it. I suspect that this was the least of Tom’s worries, more concerned with the stone, it’s size and clarity, its housing, which jeweller…”
He also expresses his concerns. “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.
“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.”
Tom’s father goes on to contrast Tom’s engagement to his own to photographer Nikki, his wife of 30 years, and vividly recalls his proposal in an Amsterdam restaurant without a ring or having asked Niki’s father permission. His romantic offer, he says, was: ““So, do you wanna get married or what?”
Dominic, 57, who has also written a book called Eclipsed about his relationship with son Tom – one of four sons including twins – which he describes as “the story of a kid called Tom who never had a speaking part in a school play but gets to play Billy Elliott in the West End and is now the incumbent Spider-Man. A fluke with no plans or strategy in place whatsoever. Against the carefully laid plans of his hapless dad – a somewhat famous comedian who sets his sights on Hollywood and misses badly.
He adds the book is “written with pride and bemusement by a dad who enjoys seeing his son’s career soar and remains sufficiently delusional to think that his soaring days are ahead.”
