Sad and despondent Tom Selleck was seen in public for the first time since escalating his apparent war with Blue Bloods producers.
The Hollywood veteran, 79, has been an outspoken critic of CBS’s decision not to renew the hit police drama series, in which he played New York Police Commissioner Frank Reagan, after the network announced the show is ending. this fall.
He has since reportedly moved home to California with his wife Jillie Mack, 66, after 14 years of traveling to and from the East Coast to film the show.
The actor was spotted leaving a friend’s house in the San Fernando Valley last week.
Tom Selleck was seen dejected and worn out as he stepped out in Los Angeles last week.
The actor was photographed looking heavier than usual while leaving a friend’s house in Thousand Oaks on Tuesday.
Exclusive photos from DailyMail.com showed Selleck looking flushed and heavier than usual, with his scruffy gray beard on show.
He was dressed in a blue button-down shirt, black T-shirt, shorts and sneakers, and was carrying a folder full of papers.
The departure comes as the TV star has been struggling to come to terms with CBS’ decision to cancel the long-running series.
Selleck has made no secret of his disappointment with the end of Blue Bloods, and after the show’s bosses announced last year that he would stop filming, he said he hoped they would “come to their senses”.
He expressed his “frustration” with the show’s cancellation once again in an interview with TV Insider on Thursday.
‘I’m a little frustrated. During those last eight shows, I didn’t want to talk about the end of Blue Bloods, but about its great success,” Selleck said.
‘In a Top 100 programs from 2023-2024 (in total viewers, we were number 9 out of 100), if you discount the three football programs, we are number 6!’
Exclusive photos from DailyMail.com show Selleck dressed in a blue button-down shirt, black T-shirt, shorts and sneakers, and carrying a folder full of papers.
The departure comes as the TV star struggles to come to terms with CBS’ decision to cancel her long-running series Blue Bloods.
Selleck, who played fictional NYPD Commissioner Frank Reagan on the show, has made no secret of his disappointment with the ending of Blue Bloods.
“My frustration is that the program was always taken for granted because it worked from the beginning.”
Selleck continued: “I’m not going to become a bitter old man who says, ‘Get off my lawn!'”
“I don’t believe in holding grudges, but if you said to the television network, ‘Here’s a show that you can schedule in the worst time slot you have, and it’s guaranteed to win on Friday nights for the next 15 years.'” , it would be almost impossible to believe.’
‘So how do I feel? It’s going to take a long time to sort all this out.
Although filming on the show has wrapped, fans can still expect to see the actor at the conclusion of its final season, with the final episodes beginning on October 18.
He starred alongside Donnie Wahlberg, Will Estes and Bridget Moynahan, all playing members of the fictional Reagan family.
Although he said the showrunners would regret scrapping his show, Tom is said to be excited to spend more time with his wife Jillie Mack, 66.
Selleck, who was previously best known as Magnum PI and also for a stint on Friends, won legions of fans with his role as Frank Reagan on Blue Bloods, a fictional NYPD commissioner.
He has starred alongside Donnie Wahlberg, Bridget Moynahan and Will Estes since September 2010, and said that when the show was canceled, fans surely reacted furiously to the decision.
“CBS will find that many people are not ready to say goodbye,” he said at the time.
Blue Bloods centers on the Reagan family, with Frank as the patriarch and police commissioner of the New York Police Department.
The popular series, which premiered in September 2010, had an impressive run on CBS with 14 seasons.
Blue Bloods became the second-longest-running scripted show on CBS behind NCIS (with 21 seasons).