{"id":518120,"date":"2026-03-06T12:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T12:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/518120\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T12:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T12:18:08","slug":"brit-youtuber-ksi-making-docuseries-about-takeover-of-lower-league-soccer-club-dagenham-redbridge-fc-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/518120\/","title":{"rendered":"Brit YouTuber Ksi Making Docuseries About Takeover of Lower League Soccer Club Dagenham &#038; Redbridge Fc (Exclusive)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>British YouTuber <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co1132227\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ksi<\/a> is taking a leaf out of <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0005351\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ryan Reynolds<\/a> and <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0568390\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rob McElhenney<\/a>\u2019s book and making a docuseries charting his purchase of a struggling lower league <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0924484\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">U.K.<\/a> soccer club.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, the influencer and \u201c<a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1034201\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Britain\u2019s Got Talent<\/a>\u201d judge \u2014 real name <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm6518846\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Olajide Olatunji<\/a> \u2014 acquired a minority stake in Dagenham &amp; <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0212868\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Redbridge<\/a>, currently languishing in the sixth tier of British football (one lower than <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm10851332\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reynolds<\/a> and McElhenney\u2019s Wrexham AFC when they acquired it in 2021).<\/p>\n<p>Variety can now reveal that, alongside production company <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0693283\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">After Party Studios<\/a>, Ksi is producing \u201cRace to the Top,\u201d a \u201c<a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt14674086\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Welcome to Wrexham<\/a>\u201d-style documentary series&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"British YouTuber Ksi is taking a leaf out of Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney\u2019s book and making a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":518121,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[12374,36234,49,48,361,9559,1336,9713,337,44,561,82,803,1788,348],"class_list":["post-518120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}