Tom Holland and Zendaya enjoyed a bit of canine company during their latest couple’s outing in his native UK.

The Hollywood hot couple, who met on the set of the Spider-Man movies, were trailed by dating rumors for years until the relationship was confirmed in 2021.

Since news of their romance leaked into the public eye a couple of years ago, they have been seen several times as a duo.

Thursday was no exception, with both of them posting Instagram updates from the Battersea Dogs & Cats Home, a London animal rescue in operation since 1860.

Zendaya and Tom could be seen joyfully playing with some of the puppies at Battersea while wearing hazmat suits.

In one heartwarming picture posted to her Insta Stories, Zendaya could be seen cradling a tiny pooch who stretched a paw out to touch her.

‘Got the lil leg going lol,’ wrote the former Disney Channel child star, joking that her own song Noon was ‘gonna be so mad when he smells me.’

Although Zendaya and Tom were the subject of dating rumors since they wrapped Spider-Man: Homecoming in 2017 – their first film together – she repeatedly denied they were an item in the years before they went public.

However that very July a People insider dished that the franchise co-stars had become romantically involved but were attempting to keep the matter under wraps.

‘They started seeing each other while they were filming Spider-Man,’ the source claimed. ‘They’ve been super careful to keep it private and out of the public eye but they’ve gone on vacations with each other and try and spend as much time as possible with one another.’

Zendaya denied as much on Twitter joking: ‘My favorite is when it says we go on vacations together HA! I haven’t been on a vacation in years! hbu @tomholland1996???’

‘He’s literally one of my best friends,’ Zendaya said of Tom during an interview with Variety later in 2017 after the release of Spider-Man: Homecoming.

‘This past how many months we’ve had to do press tours together. There’s very few people that will understand what that’s like at 20 years old,’ she pointed out.

Indeed both Zendaya and Tom have reportedly dated other people in the years between when the rumors started and when the romance was confirmed.

However, the cat was let out of the bag in July 2021 when Tom and Zendaya were spotted kissing in a car after paying a visit to her mother.

Since then, while the pair have not shied away from being seen together, they have been reticent to divulge details of their relationship to the public.

Tom shed some light on their attitude this summer when he appeared on a podcast hosted by the self-help guru Jay Shetty.

‘My relationship is the thing I keep most sacred. I don’t talk about it,’ he said. ‘I try my best to keep it as private as possible.’

He explained: ‘We both feel like that is the healthiest way for us to move on as a couple, so I do try to keep as removed from Hollywood as possible.’