“He and Zendaya have done probably twice around the globe to promote these films. They were tired. They’d probably done maybe 20, 10-hour flights and about three days after the London premiere, he said, ‘Dad we’ve got this holiday to Japan’ and I said ‘That’ll be nice Tom, you’ll enjoy it’.
‘And he said, ‘Dad, it’s too far and I’m too tired. What I thought I’d do dad, is that I’d send you and mum instead.’”
Dominic added that while he and Nicola were thrilled to take the holiday, staff at the posh hotel Tom had booked were somewhat disappointed when they saw him rather than his superstar son.
He said: “It was lovely going to Japan. It was first-class travel, posh hotel, but the thing is, all these restaurants and hotels are expecting Tom Holland and in the strata of disappointment they are expecting Tom Holland and they get Dominic.
“The Japanese are very polite and servile people but even they went ‘Hmmm’. Typical of me – here’s the thing … I’ve written 10 books and got exactly zero with me tonight which sums up my career.”
Dominic’s admission about the holiday comes after Tom and Zendaya held a second wedding at the five-star Beaverbrook Hotel in Surrey, which is reported to have cost them in the realm of £500,000.