Surely Ryan Reynolds will be making Welsh cakes (Picture: Gilbert Flores/Variety via Getty Images)
Ryan Reynolds could be lined up for the Great British Bake Off and fans are losing their minds.
The Deadpool actor has already become an honorary Brit after he bought Wrexham AFC with It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia star Rob McElhenney and helped them rise up the football ranks.
However, now some people are suggesting he could be at ‘national treasure’ levels after posing for a photo with judges Paul Hollywood and Dame Prue Leith outside the actual Bake Off tent.
Beaming for the camera, Ryan shared the snap on his Twitter and Instagram, and wrote: ‘A full and unconditional hug of pure serotonin.’
It’s a case of Hollywood meets Hollywood, and while there was no handshake in the picture, Paul looked positively delighted as he pointed to the actor with a huge grin on his face.
‘Prue and I catching up with @vancityreynolds … 👏🏼#legend,’ Paul wrote as he shared the snap on his own Instagram account, while he replied to Ryan’s and teased: ”Great catching up …’
Not surprisingly, fans are wondering if this means Ryan could be part of the next Stand Up 2 Cancer celebrity series.
‘He’s only gone and done bake off hasn’t he, cemented national treasure status,’ wrote one fan, while another replied: ‘If this doesn’t mean Ryan Reynolds is on the next celebrity bake off I don’t want it.’
‘This is the crossover I never even knew I needed,’ tweeted a different person, and a fourth fan quipped: ‘The UK has just claimed Ryan Reynolds as our own now and I am not sad about it.’
Paul Hollywood and Dame Prue Leith will be back as judges (Picture: Mark Bourdillon)
Ryan and Rob McElhenney are fast becoming national teasures (Picture: Martin Rickett/PA Wire)
Getting in there before we could, another quipped: ‘Did you make Welshcakes? And did someone make the pun about them rising in the oven like Wrexham through the leagues?’
Others are calling for the actor to take his newfound love for the UK all the way to Downing St, and we’re not opposed to the idea!
‘So football and bake off… I think prime minister next??? Please. For all British people everywhere,’ begged one admirer.
Someone thinks Ryan is even on his way to becoming a bona fide British legend in some great company, adding: ‘I feel like Ryan Reynolds is going for the adopted national treasure status that Kylie, Rob Delaney and Graham Norton have… and I don’t hate it.’
Ryan in the tent would be epic, and maybe not as outlandish as it seems given not only did the show push the boat out to land Friends legend David Schwimmer for the most recent celeb special, but Ryan and his wife Blake Lively are big fans.
‘We live in a world that’s pretty divisive right now and there’s a lot going on. And I like that show just because it’s a nice thing to watch at night,’ he told People back in 2019.
Metro.co.uk has contacted Channel 4 for comment.
Great British Bake Off is returning to Channel 4 later this year. The celebrity special is expected spring 2024.
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This would be massive!