Rob McElhenney is used to playing a gay character on It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, but he says in real life, he’s always been part of the gay community due to his family. Sports documentary series Welcome to Wrexham, on which he serves as an executive producer, followed and covers the club’s ascension from a cash-strapped club floundering in the fifth tier of English football, to a team flying high in League Two and who made it into the fourth round of the FA Cup. Since the series aired, McElhenney has spoken about his family background. After his mother, Helena McElhenney, came out as a lesbian, she and the star’s father divorced and McElhenney became part of a new, extended family unit – with two mums. In an interview with GLAAD in 2021, Helena recalled her experiences of meeting her now-wife, Mary Taylor, almost 40 years ago. She said she was a school teacher for a few years, then decided to get into nursing, where she met Mary. She expressed, The minute she met her, she was the person that I knew I wanted to spend the rest of my life with. Rob has two brothers who are gay, from childhood he was always been part of the gay community.
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