
Ryan Reynolds is increasing his soccer empire!
The Deadpool & Wolverine star and his Wrexham AFC co-owner, Rob McElhenney, have been named Thursday, January 16, amongst a bunch of traders set to take excessive Colombian staff, Membership Deportivo La Equidad Seguros.
In line with Bloomberg and ESPN, the group of traders is led by actual property investor Al Tylis and soccer govt Sam Porter, who each personal a stake within the Mexican soccer staff Necaxa. Different traders embrace actress Eva Longoria, supermodel Kate Upton and Upton’s husband, MLB pitcher Justin Verlander.
“We welcome Al Tylis and Sam Porter, who arrive with a transparent, long-term imaginative and prescient to proceed strengthening our membership,” La Equidad shared in an announcement by way of X on Thursday. “This is step one in the direction of a future stuffed with alternatives.”
“Al Tylis and Sam Porter not solely have intensive expertise within the sports activities world however in addition they have the assist of acknowledged figures similar to Eva Longoria, Rob McElhenney, Ryan Reynolds, Justin Verlander, Kate Upton, Shawn Marion and Scott Galloway,” the assertion continued.
Reynolds, 48, and McElhenney, 47, took over ownership of Welsh team Wrexham in 2021, serving to the membership obtain worldwide visibility partially due to their FX docuseries, Welcome to Wrexham. Tylis purchased a small stake in Wrexham in April 2024, whereas Reynolds and McElhenney invested in Necaxa, reported Bloomberg.

Blake Energetic and Justin Baldoni. Courtesy Sony Photos Ent.
Information of Reynolds’ newest funding got here the same day as he was named a defendant in a $400 million lawsuit filed by Justin Baldoni, his spouse Blake Energetic’s It Ends With Us costar and director.
In line with the filing obtained by Us Weekly on Thursday, Baldoni, 40, is accusing Energetic, 37, Reynolds, and Energetic’s publicist, Leslie Sloane, of civil extortion, defamation, false gentle invasion of privateness and different claims. Within the go well with, Baldoni claimed he was pressured by Reynolds and a “megacelebrity friend” of Energetic’s to just accept the actress’ modifications to the movie’s script.
Baldoni’s lawyer, Bryan Freedman, shared in an announcement to Us, “This lawsuit is a authorized motion based mostly on an amazing quantity of untampered proof detailing Blake Energetic and her staff’s duplicitous try and destroy Justin Baldoni, his staff and their respective firms by disseminating grossly edited, unsubstantiated, new and doctored data to the media.”
The assertion continued, “It’s clear based mostly on our personal all out willingness to supply all full textual content messages, emails, video footage and different documentary proof that was shared between the events in actual time, that this can be a battle she won’t win and will definitely remorse. Blake Energetic was both severely misled by her staff or deliberately and knowingly misrepresented the reality.”
The lawsuit follows one filed by Lively against Baldoni on December 31, 2024, accusing him of sexual harassment, retaliation, breach of contract, infliction of emotional misery, invasion of privateness and misplaced wages.
Us reached out to Energetic’s rep, fellow defendant Sloane, for remark Thursday however didn’t hear again.