Okay, show of hands: How many of you have ever Googled yourself to see what, if anything, other people who Googled your name are seeing about you? I absolutely have and am not ashamed to admit that I do it probably twice a year. It’s how I learned that I went from being the only person on Facebook with my (married) name to sharing it with another woman who’s a big MAGA. I cringe when I see her in the results and hope that I’m never mistaken for her.
Tom Holland is apparently also someone likes to utilize Google to check up on people. Tom is currently busy promoting his new non-alcoholic beer, Bero. He recently sat down with cookbook author/TV host Samah Dada for her YouTube series On the Menu. Towards the end of the interview, Samah asked him about the last thing he’d searched for on Google. Tom admitted that the last thing he’d looked up was his girlfriend Zendaya. Since he’s no longer on social media, he’s turned to Google to see if “everything’s good.”
“The last thing I googled was actually Zendaya,” Holland admitted on Samah Dada’s On The Menu podcast while promoting his new non-alcoholic drink brand Bero. “I’m not on [social media], and I delete it when I’m not using it.”
“So, sometimes, like, it’s more of a bit of an anxiety thing, but I’ll check to see if everything’s good and to make sure we’re all cool,” he further explained. So I just give her a little Google and look [through] the news, and I’m like, ‘She’s good.’ ”
The extent of Holland’s care for Zendaya was on full display at the New York City launch party for his Bero brand on Thursday, Oct. 24.
In a viral clip, the actor could be seen rescuing the Challengers star from fans who swarmed her while asking for autographs, taking her hand and pulling her way from the crowd, asking them to “give us a little bit of space.”
He was also captured on video getting a photographer to move aside and make some room for him and Zendaya as they exited the event and went to their car. The pair, who met while working on 2017’s Spider-Man: Homecoming and began dating in 2021, have kept their relationship relatively private.
I know the Googling thing sounds kinda weird because, well, why not just text, call, or FaceTime your girlfriend if you want to see how she’s doing? I think something has gotten lost in translation here and that Tom simply means he checks to see what the Internet is saying about her professionally. Did a journalist take a quote she said out of context? Are there rude comments about something she wore? I think he’s trying to stay in the loop to protect her. I saw that video of Tom shielding Zendaya from the paparazzi last week. It’s really sweet how protective he is of her.
While I love that he cares about her that much, I can’t see how this is an entirely healthy habit. Hopefully, he’s just scanning the headlines and leaving it at that. Isn’t the general rule of thumb for mental well-being to never read the comments about yourself or your loved one on Google/Reddit/Twitter? Make that Zendaya’s publicist’s problem.
Here’s the video of Tom’s interview with Samah. I cued it up to where he’s asked this question, but just in case, it starts at around the 7:40 mark.
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110% agree with your writing and thought process
“Make that Zendaya’s publicist’s problem”
I got anxiety just reading that he does that
Lovely intention (ito getting a temperature reading or seeing if there is something fake or b.s in the media)
But still a hard pass
Zendaya was the target of right-wing idiots in the past, taking pics of her from the show she was playing a drug addict and comparing her to random blonde women. It felt like targeted campaign to me since she is a black woman. Maybe, that triggered him, to check on what people are writing about her, to assure himself everything is ok. I remember, Prince Harry wrote about constantly reading racist coverage of Meghan to know what the media was lying about Meghan. It reminded me of that.
Haven’t we all seen him? He definitely has issues with the press. Z doesn’t need his protection. I actually wonder if sobriety is giving him thoughts5/space that he’s not comfortable with. I gave things up and had space I had to fill. I chose things that helped me.. I wasn’t perfect but still
Zendaya recently had a stalker that was actually convicted. So , yes he is very protective of her, but wouldn’t you want the same thing from your partner?
I agree he should step aside a bit and let managers, publicists and security ppl do their jobs. In that particular video, Zendaya is trying to interact with the fans while he’s just pulling her and pushing everybody away. Her face read kind of wtf? to me. I think he’s adorable as an actor and is trying to do his best as a bf, but he obviously he has his own issues with public attention and fandom. We don’t know the full extent of threats/ crazy behaviour they might have received individually or as a couple, so I try not to judge hard as much.
I’m not sure what video you saw because from the one making the rounds she was completely being swarmed. People were not respecting her space and it was overwhelming. She actually mouths thank you to him when he pulls her out. She has also been public about her anxiety. I trust that her loving partner of many years knows what she needs more than you. He doesn’t play about his girl and I love this for her.
I would not say they were all fans, if you look they were autograph seekers who more than likely would sell the autograph. That is why you see so many white boards with pictures attached.
It’s okay to step in that moment, but it can’t become a pattern. Hopefully this is a bump in their relationship and they work it out.
People are reading too much into this. Tom and Zendaya are a cute couple and I’m not going to use his sobriety or her fame as a reason to over-analyze their relationship. Please Vote if you’re eligible!
I don’t see anything wrong with it. It’s google, not a ring camera (like Joe Jonas). I think it’s sweet that he’s checking to see what is being said about her to, presumably, be supportive if there’s a brewing problem.