17 Tom Holland Moments That Made The World Fall In Love With Him

The Spider-Man and The Odyssey star has become one of Hollywood’s most popular leading men.

Over the last few years, Tom Holland has become one of the most beloved stars in Hollywood.

With two movies currently in cinemas that are heading towards billion-dollar status – The Odyssey and Spider-Man: A Brand New Day – audiences clearly can’t get enough of the British actor.

But it’s not just his acting work that the world has fallen in love with.

Since shooting to fame as a Marvel superhero, Tom has created multiple viral moments, whether he meant it or not, while his upbeat positivity and apparent total lack of cynicism have helped him stand out from many of his peers.

Here are just some of the moments that cemented his place as one of the most popular stars around today…

That adorable childhood Billy Elliot clip

Tom’s acting career got started when he was still a child, and at the age of 12, he was cast in the West End production of Billy Elliot. He initially played Michael, Billy’s best friend, before taking on the title role.

In an unearthed clip from his West End days, a very, very young looking Tom talks about his experience auditioning for the show.

“I used to go to a street dance club,” the tiny Tom recalls. “And we did a show in White Lodge, the ballet school... and the headmaster, he spotted me. He was like ‘we want you to audition for Billy Elliot’, and I was like ‘Ah, fair do’s’... okay I’ll go for it.”

In the old interview, he talks about how “strict” his training was, claiming: “We can’t muck and just do stupid stuff on the floor because we have to be safe because you’re doing flips and dangerous stuff.”

‘I just can’t explain it’

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Another childhood interview of Tom Holland came back to haunt him back in 2021, when promoting Spider-Man: No Way Home with his future wife Zendaya.

In the resurfaced clip, a young Tom was heard starting to sing, unprompted, mid-interview.

“I can’t really explain it, I haven’t got the words... it’s a feeling that you can’t control,” he belted out, seemingly from nowhere.

Zendaya has called the moment a favourite of hers, even recreating it during press for the Marvel film.

Since the clip was unearthed, it has gone on to become a popular meme, with fans and interviewers often trying to shoe-horn “I just can’t explain it,” into their exchanges with the actor.

His and Zendaya’s viral dance performance with choreographer Deja Carter

Nowadays, Tom and Zendaya are known as one of the most private and low-key romances in Hollywood, but a decade ago, the now-couple were often seen going head-to-head in online challenges on social media.

Tom, Zendaya and choreographer Deja Carter went viral in the summer of 2016 for doing an online dance known as the Typo Challenge.

It’s rare to see such candid footage of the couple in 2026, so we love seeing them hanging out in their sweatpants. The clip was apparently filmed in Zendaya’s basement during the early days of their romance.

Judging by these moves, we just know their first dance was a moment.

When he ran out of eggs during lockdown, and took rather drastic measures

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Tom found a pretty resourceful way to get around the egg shortage during the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic.

At the height of lockdown, Tom was as panicked as the rest of us when his local shop ran out of eggs. Instead of getting annoyed, the Marvel star and his brothers decided to take matters into their own hands, and bring home some chickens, so they would never run out of eggs.

He adopted a set of chickens, named Predator, Ranger and Chestnut, whom he raised in his garden.

“There’s no eggs; we have no eggs. So we thought to solve that problem, we would become the source of eggs. Now, we’re the owner of chickens,” he said in an Instagram video at the time.

Six years on, we still can’t stop watching Tom Holland’s shirtless handstand moment in lockdown

Tom has repeatedly become an accidental meme over the years, but in April 2020 he intentionally joined in on a viral trend.

He got involved with a social media challenge during lockdown where he did a handstand against a wall while also trying to put on a........

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