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It’s been a decade of marriage for actor Ryan Reynolds to Blake Lively, and from the sounds of things, it’s still going strong.
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“I’m paired up with my best friend,” Reynolds told reporters. “When that happens, you recognize how unbelievably lucky you are.”
Reynolds was out promoting his new documentary, Welcome to Wrexham, along with Wrexham F.C. co-owner Rob McElhenney. The show debuts next week on FX and Reynolds credited Lively with her support in his decision to buy the Welsh soccer club.
She came to the conclusion that he should indeed buy the club after watching Wrexham play at Wembley Stadium in England.
“We were lying in bed after the Wembley match, and it wasn’t even a particularly riveting match — we lost one-nil — it wasn’t the outcome we wanted,” Reynolds said, via Entertainment Tonight. “We’ve got [David] Beckham, Will [Ferrell] is there, it’s just … the atmosphere at Wembley is electric, and you talk to some of these players, and they said their whole lives could go by as a professional athlete, and never enter that stadium, so, it’s massively a revered moment.”
After that math, Reynolds added, Lively was all in.
“But after the match, we were lying [there] and she was like, ‘I get it.’ I was like, ‘What do you mean you get it?’” he explained. “She was like, ‘I’m now as obsessed if not more than you are with this club and this community and this town, and everything it represents and where it can go,’ and so she’s as obsessed as I am.”
Reynolds is all in!
Now, she is on board entirely, perhaps the team’s No. 1 fan.
“She’s already, like, looking at the schedules throughout the year, wondering which matches she can attend, so, it’s pretty great,” Reynolds said.
Reynolds, 45, and Lively, 34, were married on Sept. 9, 2012. They first started dating about a year before that. The couple has three daughters.
