Zawe Ashton is clearing up any speculation surrounding her marital status with her longtime love, Tom Hiddleston. As she stepped in as a guest host for the BBC’s Miss Me? podcast amid Lily Allen’s absence on July 31, Zawe got candid about whether she’s married to Tom after she referred to him as her husband during a previous interview.
“We’ve been engaged for a long time, and I think there have been publications that have named us husband and wife already,” she explained, sharing that their family members awkwardly confronted them about a wedding that never happened.
She continued, “There’s some toxic paragraphs that were thrown my way like, ‘Okay, no invite, whatever.’ It’s like, ‘No, no, no, it didn’t happen.’ We didn’t do it in secret. It’s just like a semantic thing.”
Tom Hiddleston and Zawe Ashton at the premiere of The Life Of Chuck during SXSW London in June.
Her clarification comes after she referred to Tom as her husband during an interview with Vogue ahead of The Life of Chuck premiere at SXSW London in June. During that same interview, she revealed that she and Tom were expecting their second child together. (They welcomed their first child in October 2022.)
According to The Marvels star, she and Tom actually call each other husband and wife in private (despite only being engaged), so it’s understandably why she’d slip up in a conversation about him. And in case you were wondering, the couple is in no rush to tie the knot. Per Zawe, she considers their engagement a sort of “training period” for marriage, which she finds “scary.”
“People kind of rush through engagement, and I’m like, ‘Engagement is really useful.’ Why is everyone like, ‘I’m getting engaged to get married?’” she told Lily’s co-host, Miquita Oliver. “Be engaged. Work things out. Because that’s like a big— that’s a big yes that opens up a whole new tapestry of understanding between you, between you and each other’s families, because you are saying yes to each other’s [families].”
Zawe added, “So, I’ve loved engagement, because you’re learning. You’re like, ‘What is this yes gonna be later?’ This is like a notch up from just being partners, boyfriend and girlfriend.”
Married or not, we simply love to see this super couple winning.
