English star Emily Atack discovers connection to Hollywood legend on BBC show

Emily Atack has discovered that she has a strange family connection to the Hollywood icon Ryan Reynolds.

The Inbetweeners star explored her showbiz genes on an episode of BBC's Who Do You Think You Are.

She knew that she comes from a family of entertainers with Beatles legend Sir Paul McCartney being her first cousin twice removed.

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During the episode of the show, Emily headed to Wrexham to find out more about her family and spoke about their love of football.

The UK comedian knew that her great-grandfather Ted Robbins was a football legend and she learned how her late relative played a greater part in Welsh football than she had originally anticipated, and that he was considered a hero to Welsh football fans.

Ted Robbins, one of Emily's relatives, was Secretary of the Welsh Football Association and was heavily involved in supporting football across all of Wales for 30 years.

Upon his death, he was mourned by Wales, with headlines in papers at the time stating "Wales loses Ted Robbins".

Emily said: "It just makes me understand now, my grandad Mike was obsessed with watching Wrexham – it was everything to him. I just never knew the real reasons why.

"I'm so proud, so unbelievably proud."

Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney bought Wrexham AFC for £2million in November 2020 after a poll among the club’s 2,000 Supporters’ Trust members who voted for the two Hollywood stars to be the owners.

"I’m not sure I can actually process what happened tonight, I’m still a little speechless," Ryan told reporters after the game.

"One thing that’s running through my head over and over again was at the beginning, people said ‘Why Wrexham, why Wrexham’; this is exactly why Wrexham, what’s happening right now, is why."

Who Do You Think You Are? is available to stream now on BBC iPlayer.

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