Tom Selleck risks losing California ranch with cancellation of ‘Blue Bloods’
Tom Selleck is worried he will no longer be able to afford his plush 63-acre ranch once “Blue Bloods” comes to an end this winter.
The beloved actor, 79, has been starring in the popular CBS crime drama as the fictional New York City Police Commissioner Frank Reagan since 2010.
But fans of the long-running series were dealt a blow with the news that the show is set to end later this year.
And without his paycheck from the show, Selleck fears that he may be forced to hand over his Ventura County, Calif., ranch as a result.
Speaking on “CBS Sunday Morning,” the Emmy winner talked about his glittering career that has spanned across decades.
“You know, hopefully I keep working enough to hold onto the place,” he said, referring to the ranch.
“Seriously, that’s an issue? If you stopped working?” host Tracy Smith asked.
“That’s always an issue,” Selleck said. “If I stopped working, yeah. Am I set for life? Yeah, but maybe not on a 63-acre ranch!”
The actor snapped up the ranch in 1988 after quitting “Magnum: PI.”
And while he’s gearing up to turn 80 in January, Selleck said he has no plans to step away from acting anytime soon.
“As an actor, you never lose — I don’t lose, anyway — that sense that every time I finish a job, it’s my last job,” he said.
“I like the fact that there’s no excuses,” he went on. “You just go to work and you do the work. And I have a lot of reverence for what I call ‘the work,’ and I love it. And I’d like to keep doing it.”
Ideally, Selleck hopes that the decision to cancel “Blue Bloods” will be reversed by the end of the year.
“I will continue to think that CBS will come to their senses,” he said. “We’re the third-highest scripted show in all of broadcast. We’re winning the night. All the cast wants to come back. And I can tell you this: we aren’t sliding off down a cliff. We’re doing good shows, and still holding our place. So, I don’t know. You tell me!”
It’s not the first time the actor opened up about how much the ranch means to him.
“My relationships and my ranch keep me sane,” he told People in 2020. “I do grunt work and I make the rounds. I like watching things grow. It’s a retreat.”
The “Three Men and a Baby” actor married wife Jillie Mack in 1987. The pair share daughter Hannah.
Selleck was previously married to Jaqueline Ray from 1971 to 1982. The pair share son Kevin.
