Tom Selleck Turns 80: How He Plans to Celebrate With Wife Jillie Mack

Tom Selleck is celebrating a milestone. The Blue Bloods star turns 80 on Jan. 29. But he’s not planning a big bash to mark the occasion. The Emmy-winnning actor recently opened up about his low-key plans for his 80th birthday. 

Tom Selleck ‘stopped celebrating birthdays a while back’ 

Selleck likes to keep things simple and no-fuss when it comes to birthdays, he said in a recent interview with Parade ahead of the Blue Bloods series finale in December 2024. In fact, he doesn’t really like to celebrate at all. 

“I’m trying not to count,” he said. “I stopped celebrating birthdays a while back. I intend to keep working.”

The Magnum P.I. star said if he did anything, it would be a dinner with his wife of 37 years, Jillie Mack, and other close family. 

“I’ll probably have dinner with maybe my brother and my sister and Jillie, just go out to dinner, kind of be quiet and not make a big deal of it,” he said. 

The ‘Blue Bloods’ star doesn’t plan to slow down in his 80s

Although Selleck is well past the age when many people retire, he’s said he has no plans to give up acting. 

After spending years portraying the often stone-faced Frank Reagan on Blue Bloods, Selleck says he’s ready for something a bit lighter, referencing his earlier work on Friends (where he played Monica’s older boyfriend, Richard Burke) and in the hit movie Three Men and a Baby. 

“I would love to do another comedy,” he said. “The right kind of comedy. Friends made people laugh and cry at times. That’s the kind of comedy I enjoy doing. Three Men and a Baby had that, too.”

Would he be open to playing NYPD top cop Frank Reagan again? He’s not ruling it out, though he said that there are no plans to revisit the Reagan family’s story at this point. (Blue Bloods aired its final episode on Dec. 13, after 14 seasons on CBS.) 

“I’m open to suggestions because I love Frank Reagan, but nobody’s really asked. I don’t see him retiring and going off somewhere,” he said. 

Selleck has also expressed interest in reviving the Jesse Stone character. He played the detective in a series of nine TV movies from 2005 to 2015. And if Yellowstone creator Taylor Sheridan called with a job offer, he’d definitely pick up the phone. 

“A good Western’s always on my list,” the Quigley Down Under star said. “I miss that; I want to sit on a horse again.”

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