Ryan Reynolds leaves locals stunned after ‘buying £1.5million home in sleepy Welsh village’ – as Hollywood star commits to Wales after taking control of Wrexham football club
The residents of Marford, North Wales have been left gob-smacked after Ryan Reynolds snapped up a property in their sleepy village.
According to The Sun the actor bagged himself a £1.5million home as he commits to Wales after taking control of nearby Wrexham football club.
With a source telling the publication: ‘The most famous person from Marford is Tim Vincent from Blue Peter, so a Hollywood star is a step up!’.
The Deadpool star is believed to have splashed out on a four-bedroom home where he will be joined by wife Blake Lively, 35 and their children James, eight, Betty, six, and Inez, three, as well as their fourth baby born earlier this year.
The source continued: ‘Ryan is moving to Marford and it’s all the locals can talk about. His house is on the poshest road’.
Moving in: The residents of Marford, North Wales have been left gob-smacked after Ryan Reynolds snapped up a property in their sleepy village
Putting down roots: It’s believed the actor bagged himself a £1.5million home as he commits to Wales after taking control of nearby Wrexham football club
Family: The Deadpool star is believe to have splashed out on a four-bedroom home where he will be joined by wife Blake Lively, 35 and their children James, eight, Betty, six, and Inez, three, as well as their fourth baby born earlier this year (Blake and Ryan pictured cheering on Wrexham last year)
‘It might not be the Big Apple but the red carpet will be rolled out when Ryan comes to town.’
MailOnline have contacted Ryan’s reps for comment.
Wrexham born Tim made a name for himself on UK TV hosting Blue Peter and The Clothes Show.
He has since jumped the pond and lives in LA where he presents Access Hollywood and Phenomenon.
The Spirited star, along with co-chairman Rob McElhenney, have helped transform the Welsh team, and have had huge success documenting their progress in season one of their documentary series, ‘Welcome to Wrexham’.
In August last year Ryan revealed his wife was not particularly happy when he told her the he had bought the Welsh team with It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia actor Rob McElhenney.
In an interview on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, he said: ‘I remember seeing Blake, saying, ‘I have bad news and I have really bad news. I slipped into someone’s DMs again. The really bad news is that I might have bought half of a fifth tier national football league in Wales.”
However Blake has been snapped cheering on Ryan’s club. In May last year the couple watched Wrexham take on Bromley during the Buildbase FA Trophy Final at Wembley Stadium in London.
Game: The actor bought the nearby Wrexham football club in 2020 alongside It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia actor Rob McElhenney (pictured as a family at a game last month)
New neighbour: The source said: ‘Ryan is moving to Marford and it’s all the locals can talk about. His house is on the poshest road’
Cheeky: With one resident saying: ‘The most famous person from Marford is Tim Vincent from Blue Peter, so a Hollywood star is a step up!’ (Tim pictured on Blue Peter in 1995)
The pair bought the club back in 2020. Since then they have put Wrexham and its once struggling club firmly back in the spotlight.
They reached the Wembley final in 2022 and narrowly missed out promotion after finishing second in the National League.
The club’s duo are also striving to give women’s football a boost and recently announced they will attend Wrexham ladies team’s match against local rivals Connah’s Quay Nomads tomorrow.
The famous owners will joined by more than 7,000 fans attending the match after a record number of tickets were sold.
Turning it all around: The pair bought the club back in 2020. Since then they have put Wrexham and its once struggling club firmly back in the spotlight
And the Hollywood stars face their biggest match yet as Wrexham owners when they take on Notts County at home on Monday in a promotion six-pointer.
The two clubs are level on points at the top of the National League, with just one automatic promotion spot available back to the Football League.
For A-listers Reynolds and McElhenney, going up would realise an ambition that they set on buying the club in February 2021 and which — as this column can reveal — has cost them well over £10million.
Wrexham’s latest accounts, to the end of June 2022, show that in addition to the £2m paid to buy the club, Reynolds and McElhenney had injected over £5m more before this season. Of that, £3.67m was to cover the repurchase of the freehold of the club’s Racecourse Ground, while another £1.2million was invested in the form of shares.
The pair, who have gained global attention thanks to their documentary, also spent £132,032 on takeover costs and wrote off a related party balance of £40,092.
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