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    Tom Holland covers the latest issue of Men’s Health

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    IT'S ALMOST 80 DEGREES ON an October Monday in New York City, but the New Yorkers drifting in and out of a lounge at the Greenwich Hotel are committed to their fall aesthetics. The hotel, too, is resigned to an autumn gestalt: Thanks to a roaring fire in a monumental hunting-lodge hearth, the dimly lit lounge is also 80 degrees.

    Tom Holland sits in a striped silk armchair near the fireplace. He is wearing white On running shoes, wide-leg trousers, and an ivory sweatshirt that he quickly peels off, issuing a muffled apology from within the fabric as his T-shirt rises with it. Liberated, he sits back in the chair. Behind him are shelves of ancient books and a taxidermied antelope head. He is lit from the right by the fire and a lamp with a red shade so large it achieves personhood, and every divot in his face, especially the cleft in his chin, is deeply shadowed. He looks primed for a live reading of one of the tomes behind him, an impression helped along by his English accent, which is un-posh and friendly—more Harry Potter than Prince William.

    “My accent annoys my parents,” he says. “They are quite well spoken, and I like to think I exist in a world that’s just below well spoken.” His brother Harry’s accent, he adds, is “much worse” than his. “E fuckeen thinks he’s, like, from the East End? And it drives my parents nuts.”

    I am studying Holland for signs of unusual rizz, a.k.a. charisma. “Tom is the ultimate rizz master,” Timothée Chalamet recently said in an interview for LADbible TV. “The Internet knows this. Zendaya knows this. Everyone knows this.” It’s true that the Internet erupts with commentary whenever Holland steps out, particularly if he steps out with Zendaya, the megastar he has been dating for a few years. But I’m having trouble articulating the magnetism. “It’s kind of, like, an intangible thing,” says Spider-Man director Jon Watts. “You look at him and you just love him.”

    To be clear, I see that the 28-year-old actor has the obvious prerequisites for rizz: He is charming and intelligent and confident. I have also seen his 2017 Lip Sync Battle performance, in which, to Rihanna’s “Umbrella,” he dances energetically in a corset and tight leather shorts and ends with a front flip, landing on his back on a flooded stage. I understand that he, like Spider-Man’s alter ego, Peter Parker, has hidden capabilities that are perhaps infinite. But sequestered in the corner of the hotel lounge, he gives me the impression not of suavity but of intense sincerity.

    Perhaps that’s because he’s not here to promote a film. In fact, he is emerging from a yearlong break from acting. “It was just something I needed to do,” he explains. “I had been acting flat out since I was 11.” That was when he auditioned for Billy Elliot: The Musical in London. A few years after Billy Elliot, he was cast in The Impossible, opposite Naomi Watts, and then as Spider-Man in 2016’s Captain America: Civil War. He’s since played Spider-Man in two Avengers films and in three stand-alone Spider-Man movies, with a fourth on the way, all the while taking on white-knuckle films like Cherry—in which his character is walloped first by love, then by combat, addiction, and bank robbery—and The Crowded Room, a psychological thriller in which he plays a young man at the center of a disturbing crime. In addition to the fourth Spider-Man film, he’ll join Matt Damon and Zendaya in a Christopher Nolan movie slated for 2026.

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    Selena Gomez announces engagement to Benny Blanco

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    Benny Blanco and Selena Gomez at a LA Lakers game

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    Selena Gomez has revealed she is engaged to songwriter Benny Blanco. The actress and singer posted a picture of a large engagement ring on Instagram, with the caption "forever begins now". It comes after the couple confirmed their relationship last year. Pop star Taylor Swift was among the famous figures to offer congratulations.

    Two-time Grammy-nominated Gomez posted further pictures of her beaming, wearing the ring, and one of Blanco embracing her in what appears to be a closet. "Hey wait... that's my wife," Blanco commented on the post. Swift replied: "Yes I will be the flower girl." Rapper Cardi B, actresses Gwyneth Paltrow, Jennifer Aniston and Suki Waterhouse, and singer Lil Nas X also sent well wishes.

    In an Instagram Story shared with her 423 million followers, the most-followed woman on the app also revealed a video showing her ring to loved ones on the phone. "Yes to this," she can be heard saying, evoking screams on the other end of the video call. Gomez and record producer Blanco had collaborated on songs I Can't Get Enough in 2019 and Single Soon in 2023, before announcing their relationship.

    Blanco, who has also worked with the likes of Rihanna, Calvin Harris and Justin Bieber, was effusive about his love on the Drew Barrymore Show back in May. "She's just like the best, most genuine person," he said on the chat show. "Everything is completely real. Everyday when I wake up, I, like, walk by the mirror as I'm, like, walking to her and I ask myself, 'How did I get here'... "She's one of the sweetest, one of the most charming, one of the most humble people I've ever met."

    Come & Get It singer Gomez was previously in a high profile on-and-off relationship with fellow singer Justin Bieber. She also dated singer The Weeknd in 2017. The Texas-born star rose to fame as a child actress on Barney and Disney Channel, before forging a career as a singer and in acting. This year she joined the billionaire celebrity rich list, according to Bloomberg, amassing a $1.3bn (£1bn) fortune - mainly deriving from her Rare Beauty make-up company. On Monday, she received two Golden Globe nominations - one in the best supporting actress category for her role in operatic musical Emilia Pérez and the other for best actress in a TV series, musical or comedy, for her recurring role in Only Murders in the Building.

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