‘Many people fooled’ by AI wedding pics, says Zendaya

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US actress Zendaya has given an amused and bemused reaction to the widely shared photos that appear to show her wedding to fellow actor Tom Holland.

Dozens of the AI-generated photos have been posted online and “many people have been fooled by them,” Zendaya told American chat show host Jimmy Kimmel on Monday night.

She explained: “While I was just out and about in real life, people were like, ‘Oh my God, your wedding photos are gorgeous’. And I was like, ‘Babe, they’re AI. They’re not real’.”

The actress side-stepped the question of whether she was actually married to her Spider-man co-star.

Asked about rumours they had tied the knot, she joked: “Really? I haven’t seen any of them”.

The Euphoria star went on to say that it wasn’t just fans who had been fooled by the fake wedding images.

The actor said that “many people” in her personal life were convinced, and some had been mad they didn’t get an invite.

At first glance, the photos look pretty realistic. They show a smiling Zendaya and Holland in their wedding outfits exchanging vows - against a background that looks like Lake Como, Italy.

Images shared at the start of the month by a creator called AK on the social media platform X also appeared to show Robert Downey Jr, Tobey Maguire, Andrew Garfield and Jake Gyllenhaal in attendance at the ceremony.

Another user called Juan Regueira Rodriguez posted a collection of supposed wedding pictures on Instagram, with one - liked by millions - showing Holland holding a Spider-Man mask.

A caption said the images has been created with AI as an “artistic recreation”, but many fans missed the disclaimer.

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Rumours about the couple’s marriage were initially triggered by Zendaya’s stylist, Law Roach, who told Access Hollywood that the nuptials had “already happened” and the press had “missed it”.

Speculation intensified when Zendaya appeared to be wearing a gold band on her left hand as she arrived at the recent Louis Vuitton show at Paris Fashion Week.

The couple met in 2017 during the making of Spider-Man: Homecoming; and will be reunited on screen in their fourth superhero film, Spider-Man : Brand New Day, this summer.

Holland teased a special trailer launch for the new movie on Wednesday, via Instagram.

The trailer for Dune 3, starring Zendaya alongside Timothée Chalamet, is also due to arrive this week.

And the couple will be seen together again this year, as co-stars in Christopher Nolan’s epic re-telling of Homer’s The Odyssey.

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