Zawe Ashton Clarifies Marriage Status With Tom Hiddleston

Tom Hiddleston and Zawe Ashton haven’t jumped on the marriage train just yet.

The Marvels actress explained that she and the Life of Chuck star haven’t walked down the aisle, despite welcoming a baby together in 2022 and announcing in June that they’re expecting another.

“We’ve been engaged for a long time,” Zawe said on the Miss Me? podcast July 31, “and there are—I think there have been publications that have named us husband and wife already.”

In fact, many of the couple’s friends and family were convinced the two had gotten married after an interview with Vogue in June referred to Tom as her husband—which led to some very awkward exchanges.

“Those text messages,” the 41-year-old recalled, “there’s some toxic paragraphs that were thrown my way like, ‘OK, no invite, whatever.’ It’s like, ‘No, no, no, it didn’t happen.’ We didn’t do it in secret. We haven’t eloped. It’s just like a semantic thing.”