Ryan Reynolds Welcomes King Charles III At Wrexham Soccer Membership | NEWSRUX

Actors Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney welcomed King Charles III and Camilla, the queen consort of Britain on Friday as co-owners of the Wrexham A.F.C. soccer membership in Wales, Leisure Tonight reported. Gathered on the pitch, the 4 took pictures, shook palms and laughed collectively.

“Welcome to Wrexham Season 2: Charles in Cost,” Reynolds later tweeted alongside a photograph of him and the king.

Reynolds had by no means met McElhenney when he messaged the “It’s At all times Sunny in Philadelphia” actor about buying the staff in the course of the 2020 lockdowns. They did simply that in 2021, nevertheless, and filmed the method for the Disney+ docuseries “Welcome to Wrexham.”

“You actually have to observe Welcome to Wrexham for this to make sense,” McElhenney tweeted Friday alongside a photograph of the 4. “And even then, it nonetheless [might not] make sense.”

Reynolds beforehand informed Yahoo the 2 actors acquired Wrexham, the world’s third-oldest skilled soccer membership, to steer an underdog staff to victory. Whereas assembly kings and queens certainly didn’t think about, sources informed ET the royals agreed to be filmed for the sequence.

“I had the chance to see one of many different wonders of Wrexham, specifically the soccer membership, which is busy placing Wrexham on the map as by no means earlier than,” mentioned Charles in a speech later that day, ET reported.

“And, after all, this comes after the Welsh nationwide staff has introduced unprecedented worldwide recognition to Wales via qualifying for the World Cup,” the newly topped king continued.

Whereas Reynolds is driving excessive after the Individuals’s Selection Awards this week, the royal household has been fielding questions on Thursday’s launch of “Harry & Meghan” — a Netflix documentary sequence about royal life from Prince Harry and his spouse, Meghan Markle.

The sequence has already sparked controversy. A Buckingham Palace supply informed HuffPost that Netflix had made no try and contact the royal household about it. The streamer itself, in the meantime, mentioned that each Charles and Prince William’s workplaces had been contacted beforehand.

“They actually don’t need to be drawn into it for the straightforward incontrovertible fact that they don’t need to give an already much-hyped docuseries much more oxygen or publicity,” royal skilled Katie Nicholl informed ET. “So, I feel if they’ll experience this out with out being drawn into it, then that’s in all probability the technique.”