Ryan Reynolds has revealed that wife Blake Lively helped him make the decision to buy the Wrexham soccer team, joking that he had to get her permission as he can't even make "unilateral decisions on milk".MORE: Inside Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds's incredible NY houseSpeaking on Good Morning America, Ryan was asked by Michael Strahan how Blake took to the news that he was buying the team along with friend Rob McElhenney, to which he quipped: "First off, let's back the truck up — I would not just buy a team and then tell my wife. I don't make unilateral decisions on milk."WATCH: Welcome to Wrexham, available on Disney+Ryan then shared that his wife of 10 years helped him talk through the decision, and that she "saw some of the things — the blind spots — that I didn't see, and I saw some of the other blind spots."He also went on to reveal that the decision was "one of the greatest things to happen to me and genuinely one of the worst," adding: "I now love this sport so much I hate it."MORE: Blake Lively's incredible unicorn cake is perfect for her three young daughtersRob and Ryan purchased Wrexham AFC, a club in North Wales, in 2020, and cameras followed their move to try to try to turn its fortunes around as well as Wrexham as a working-class town where the historic yet struggling football club is a source of pride among residents.However the documentary also saw Ryan speak emotionally about his own relationship with his father, revealing that he only got validation from his late dad when it came to sport, and he still feels upset over their strained relationship today.
“You Come Out Changed”: Ryan Reynolds Shares Dream Of Buying English Football Club In AppleTV+ Doc Series ‘Welcome To Wrexham’
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While British celebrities have often parted with their money to fund their favourite football club, they at least have a passing knowledge of the off-side rule (you’ll have to look it up, sorry), but Reynolds is unusual in being an American A-lister to do the same, having parted with £2million ($2.36m) to buy British club Wrexham, with fellow actor Rob McElhenney.
Reynolds told The Times newspaper that, like a real-life Ted Lasso, he had to win over doubtful local fans, and the whole story is told in Welcome to Wrexham, a six-part documentary series about to debut on Disney+.
The film follows the Hollywood pair transforming the club’s stadium and securing TikTok as kit sponsor – plus the universal tale of every football fan’s emotional rollercoaster.
The Deadpool star told The Times: “The age-old tale of addiction is that you go into it with this casual approach and then you come out completely changed and ravaged. Football has done that to me. For better and for worse. I think they should make some sort of patch for it.”
Reynolds’ business partner McElhenney was inspired by watching a Netflix documentary on struggling northern English team Sunderland Till I Die.
Fans were initially sceptical, believing the mission of the enterprise was to make a documentary, rather than save their team, but were won over by the Hollywood pair, apparently, by the appointment of respected manager Phil Parkinson, in a scene shown in the doc.
Wrexham currently competes in the National League, which is the fifth tier of British football, but the owners are adamant they’re in the project for the long run and now have their eyes on the prize, which in British football talk only means one thing – the Premier League.
Welcome to Wrexham is on Disney+
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