Tom Daley and Tom Holland. Together. Under the California sun. One in a sleeveless knit vest with his arms fully out, the other flushed and sweaty from playing padel. Making things for each other on camera.
We’re fine. Everything is fine.
Daley just shared the full video from Holland’s Bero Padel Classic event in Los Angeles, and if you’ve ever had even a passing appreciation for either of these two – let alone both – this is the content you didn’t know you were waiting for.
Two of the most consistently thirsted-over men in the public eye, occupying the same frame, exchanging handmade gifts and compliments in the sunshine, and something about Tom Daley being the sub. We think.
“If Tom Holland invites you, you go,” Daley says at the top of the video, and honestly? Same, Tom. Same.
What happens over the next four minutes is pure Tom Daley – and you really do need to see the full video to appreciate just how charming the payoff is.
Two Toms, One Very Loaded Sentence
Let’s back up for a second. The Bero Padel Classic is Holland’s annual celebrity padel tournament, organized through his non-alcoholic beer brand Bero – which, for context, was Target’s top-selling non-alcoholic beer launch ever when it debuted in 2024.
The 2026 edition drew names like Zendaya, Simu Liu, Steve Aoki, Rainn Wilson, and Diplo. It was a whole thing.
And then there was Daley, who by his own cheerful admission is “absolutely horrific” at padel. He’d played exactly once before. So what was he doing there?
Well, he signed on as a sub.
Yes. Tom Daley – Olympic gold medalist, The Celebrity Traitors alum, openly gay man who once chatted with King Charles about yarn tension – walked into a celebrity sporting event and announced, on camera, that he was there as a sub. For Tom Holland.
The jokes write themselves, and frankly we don’t even need to make them. You already did.
The Man Who Knits Bags for Things That Don’t Need Bags
If you’ve been paying any attention to Daley’s post-retirement arc, you already know the man has turned crochet hooks and knitting needles into an entire empire.
His brand Made With Love has a partnership with Lion Brand Yarn, sells kits and patterns through its own site, and even spawned a Channel 4 competition show – Game of Wool: Britain’s Best Knitter – which was renewed for a second series after becoming one of the channel’s top-rated 8pm shows for younger viewers.
He also designed and hand-knitted the scarves and hats worn by Team GB’s flagbearers at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan-Cortina. Because of course he did.
So when Daley found himself sitting courtside at the Bero Padel Classic with nothing to do and a crochet hook in his bag, the outcome was inevitable. As he puts it: “I just knit bags for things that don’t need bags.”
This time, though, the thing that didn’t need a bag was a can of Tom Holland’s Bero.
From Biopic Dreams to Beer Cozies
Here’s the thing that makes this whole interaction even better. Last year, Daley appeared on the Just for Variety podcast and was asked who should play him in a biopic. His answer? Tom Holland.
“He’s got the gymnastic-y vibe,” Daley explained. “I feel like we’re quite similar in that. So I reckon Tom Holland could maybe do that.”
So to be clear: Tom Daley publicly said he wants Tom Holland to play him in a movie. Then Tom Holland invited him to his event. Then Tom Daley showed up as his “sub.”
Then he sat courtside in a sleeveless vest, crocheted a handmade gift, and hand-delivered it with the kind of energy that would make a Hallmark movie blush.
This is either a friendship or the plot of a very specific fanfiction, and honestly it doesn’t matter which.
A Garden Party, a Padel Court, and Zero Sleeves
The Bero Padel Classic wasn’t even Daley’s first headline-making appearance that week. Just days earlier, he attended King Charles’ garden party at the UK ambassador’s residence in Washington D.C., where he showed up in a suit jacket with his shirt unbuttoned – no tie – and proceeded to chat with the actual King of England about knitting.
King Charles reportedly told him he’d tried knitting when he was eight and “wasn’t very good.” Daley, to his credit, did not offer to teach him.
Gay Twitter, meanwhile, was busy noting that Daley’s chest was essentially a co-host at the royal event. One fan wrote that if their body looked like Daley’s, their shirt would be open everywhere too. Fair point.
Then, just days later, he was courtside in Sherman Oaks, arms fully out in that checkered vest, crochet hook in hand, making a beer cozy for Spider-Man. The range is truly something.
What Happens in the Video
We’re not going to describe the whole thing – that would ruin the best part. But here’s what you need to know going in.
Daley decides that since he’s not playing, he might as well “make use of some of his time.” He grabs a Bero can, pulls out his crochet hook and some white yarn, and just… starts making a beer can holder. Courtside. At a celebrity padel tournament. In broad daylight. Like it’s the most natural thing in the world.
When he finishes, he goes to find Holland. They hug. The moment they look at the finished product together – and what Holland notices about the pattern – is genuinely delightful. We’ll let the video do the talking.
Spider-Man Wants Crochet Lessons
What makes the exchange really land isn’t just the gift. It’s Holland’s reaction. He’s visibly charmed, immediately notices something about the design that Daley swears was accidental (we’ll let you see that for yourself), and then drops a revelation that generated its own wave of headlines: he and Zendaya have been crocheting at home.
Holland said he finds it meditative – that it forces him to focus completely and “turns my brain off.” Daley, naturally, offered to teach him.
The image of Tom Holland and Zendaya crocheting together on the couch is somehow both unexpected and the most wholesome thing to come out of celebrity culture in months.
Multiple outlets ran stories on the revelation alone, with Yahoo running a piece about Holland as part of “a new era of men embracing soft, creative pastimes.”
OK but Tom Daley was telling you about this for half a decade now.
The Friendship We Didn’t Know We Needed
And there’s something genuinely thirsty charming about the Tom and Tom dynamic.
Holland is the affable movie star who turned his sobriety journey into a non-alcoholic beer brand now valued at roughly $100 million. Daley is the Olympic champion who retired into a knitting empire, a TV hosting career, and an apparent inability to sit still without producing handmade accessories.
Together, they’re two guys who could not be more British – standing in California sunshine, discussing yarn tension and spiderweb patterns over a can of non-alcoholic beer, while looking the way they look.
Tom Daley showed up as a sub, brought his crochet hook, made a gift nobody asked for, and walked away with the most charming four minutes on the internet this week.
Some people just have range. And excellent yarn technique.