Ryan Reynolds: ‘I couldn’t tell my kids he was on Zoom’

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Lifelong Wrexham fan Spencer Harris was one of them.”,”blocks”:[{“type”:”fragment”,”model”:{“text”:”Yet it wasn’t long ago that only a select few knew these celebrity names were about to take over a relatively unknown club. Lifelong Wrexham fan Spencer Harris was one of them.”,”attributes”:[]}}]}}]}},{“type”:”subheadline”,”model”:{“blocks”:[{“type”:”text”,”model”:{“blocks”:[{“type”:”paragraph”,”model”:{“text”:”‘Quite surreal'”,”blocks”:[{“type”:”fragment”,”model”:{“text”:”‘Quite surreal'”,”attributes”:[]}}]}}]}}],”level”:2,”fontScale”:”headlineSmall”,”id”:”Quite-surreal”,”isFocusable”:true}},{“type”:”text”,”model”:{“blocks”:[{“type”:”paragraph”,”model”:{“text”:”\”That first Zoom call that I had with Rob and Ryan together was quite surreal,\” recalled Spencer. 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