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Daily Mail
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Tom Holland and fiancée Zendaya are spotted filming together for the first time on set of Spider-Man: Brand New Day at Brookwood Cemetery in Surrey
and his fiancée Zendaya were seen filming together for the first time on set of Spider-Man: Brand New Day at Brookwood Cemetery in Surrey on Thursday. The couple feature in the film together after striking up a romance on his first feature-length film as the hero, Spider-Man: Homecoming in 2016. Zendaya, 28, and Tom, 29, got stuck into work as they shot new scenes at Aunt May's grave for Christopher Nolan 's latest highly-anticipated project, set to be released in 2026. The smitten pair will share the screen for the fourth time, after previously playing love interests in three Spider-Man movies. He was seen filming for the first time in Glasgow this week, transforming the city into New York City for the sequel. While the final casting of the latest instalment in the Spider-Man franchise has not been confirmed, Tom is believed to be starring alongside Stranger Things star Sadie Sink, 23. Zendaya plays Peter Parker's girlfriend MJ. Elsewhere, Zendaya and Tom are set to appear together in The Odyssey, Christopher Nolan's adaptation of Homer's epic. Amid their incredibly busy schedules, the couple have been forced to delay their wedding, according to her trusted 'image architect' Law Roach. 'The process hasn't even started yet,' the 47-year-old stylist updated E! News. 'Zendaya is working on so many movies. She's now filming the next iteration of Dune, so she's away doing that. It's so many movies, so we have time. We have a lot of time.' The bride-to-be has her hands full shooting Denis Villeneuve's fantasy flick Dune: Part Three, Kristoffer Borgli's romantic dramedy The Drama, DreamWorks animated movie Shrek 5, and the third season of HBO Max's drama Euphoria. Zendaya (last name Coleman) has also signed on to produce and star as singer Ronnie Spector in Barry Jenkins' biopic Be My Baby, which is based on her 2022 memoir. Meanwhile, the 29-year-old groom teamed up with Austin Butler to portray the Whittington Brothers in Amazon MGM Studios' race car driving biopic called American Speed penned by Dan Wiedenhaupt. Law teased that the two-time Emmy winner and Tom's nuptials might happen next year, gushing: 'I'm really excited because I know that they really love each other and they have for a really long time.' The pair shot scenes at Aunt May's grave The Challengers producer-star first sparked engagement rumors at the Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills on January 6 while rocking a Jessica McCormack-designed diamond sparkler estimated to cost $500K. The very next day, TMZ reported that Tom had 'got down on one knee' and popped the question 'between Christmas and New Year's Eve' at Zendaya's family home in Oakland, CA: 'It was romantic and not over the top.' The London-born Englishman told Men's Health at the time: 'When I have kids, you will not see me in movies anymore. [It'll just be] golf and dad. And I will just disappear off the face of the earth.' The Oakland-born beauty and Tom were rumored to be a couple as far back as 2017 while promoting Spider-Man, but they finally confirmed the romance in 2021 with a long kiss in his $125K Audi sports car outside her mother's Silver Lake home.
BBC News
25-05-2025
- General
- BBC News
Woking's Brookwood Cemetery and its 'bizarre coffin train'
Walking through the woodlands in Surrey's Brookwood Cemetery, very few indicators remain of its connection to one of the UK's most "bizarre" railway the mid-19th Century, thousands of bodies a year would arrive on trains from Waterloo to Woking with carriages for both the living and the John Clarke said: "It was a very unusual if not bizarre railway service."Now, walking through the cemetery, all that remains is fields of unmarked graves for some of Victorian London's richest and poorest. "I find it very moving to walk through here at times remembering all the people who are buried here in unmarked graves," said Mr said because some of them were pauper graves "there was no right to erect a permanent memorial".Founded by a private act of Parliament in 1852, the London Necropolis was intended to hold "all of London's dead forever", Mr Clarke said. More than 2,000 acres of land was bought from Lord Onslow, the lord of the manor for Woking, to build the cemetery in response to a major cholera epidemic causing a build up of "burial congestion".Trains would be loaded from a specially built station in Waterloo before mourners and coffins would make the journey to Brookwood station, where services would be diverted straight into the grounds of the separate carriages for passengers and coffins, the train still operated a strict three-class system for both the living and the and second class mourners, and their dead, would be boarded on to the train with the names of their loved ones announced as their coffins were brought onto the train. For third class, however, mourners would be segregated into a separate waiting room as to not mingle with the upper classes, before being ushered into a communal carriage with far less pomp and 1856, more than 2,000 bodies a year were being transported by the train to the cemetery, now fitted with refreshment ranged from two to six shillings for passengers and from two shillings and six pence to a pound for coffins, but prices fixed by the act of Parliament meant that, by World War Two, these had become incredibly train ran until April 1941, when its special Waterloo platform was destroyed in the the railway has long since gone, but Brookwood railway station still gives mourners direct access to what remains one of the largest cemeteries in the with two black lines in the tarmac path, enduring reminders still remain of one of the more morbid chapters of Surrey's railway history.
