Keep Tom Selleck in your prayers
Keep Tom Selleck in your prayers
Thomas William Selleck is known for his role as private detective Thomas Magnum in the television series Magnum P.I. (1980-1988) and Peter Mitchell in Three Men and a Baby and Three Men and a Little Lady. Before that, he had a recurring role as Lance White, the naive and lovable sidekick of Jim Rockford (played by James Garner) on The Rockford Files. He played Sheriff Jesse Stone in the television series based on the novels by Robert B. Parker. Since 2010, he has starred as NYPD Commissioner Frank Reagan in the crime drama Blue Bloods.
Tom Selleck has enjoyed great success for decades, but the actor has battled joint pain for years.
Reports from friends and colleagues of Tom Selleck say that the former action star was tortured daily while on set.
Tom’s days as a car-jumping-diving-diving action star are in the past. ~Costar.
Tom was examined by doctors and learned techniques to relieve the pain, but it was an illness that did not go away. “I’m learning to adapt to it as best I can,” he said in a recent interview.
The pain was sometimes so bad, Tom couldn’t perform his own stunts, forcing a stuntman to step in. Sometimes, stunts are also used for simple scenes such as getting in and out of a police car. Stars sometimes have to film sitting scenes.
Tom is an established professional and reports say he never complained of pain. He often jokes that he is no longer ‘Magnum PI’.
Now, some in Tom’s family are concerned that the arthritis treatment the actor is undergoing will make him blind.
Please keep him in your prayers.
Sending you blessings of love and gratitude from Sterrett, Alabama!
Blue Bloods began in 2010, and has since aired for 13 seasons. Blue Bloods will begin the run of season 14 on February 16, 2024, and will continue the two-part season throughout 2024. Late last year, it was announced that Blue Bloods was cancelled, making the upcoming year its final season.
The cancellation of Blue Bloods came after a series of rocky patterns in the production leading up to season 14. CBS reportedly asked for major budget cuts, which resulted in actors taking pay hits to keep dozens of crew members employed. As Deadline reported, the renewal of Blue Bloods season 14 was made under the assumption that season 14 may very well be its final season. Thus, the Blue Bloods team took to the writers’ room with finality in mind.
Hopefully, the rocky production of Blue Bloods season 14 foreshadowed its cancellation enough for the final episodes to feel truly final. If Selleck is accurate in his statement, the Blue Bloods writing team is “not out of ideas.” On the one hand, that could make the show feel like it lacks closure in the finale, if there are still numerous other plotlines to explore with the characters. Looking from an optimistic lens, this will mean that Blue Bloods still has rich themes to explore as it soon enters season 14.
Hopefully, the rocky production of Blue Bloods season 14 foreshadowed its cancellation enough for the final episodes to feel truly final. If Selleck is accurate in his statement, the Blue Bloods writing team is “not out of ideas.” On the one hand, that could make the show feel like it lacks closure in the finale, if there are still numerous other plotlines to explore with the characters. Looking from an optimistic lens, this will mean that Blue Bloods still has rich themes to explore as it soon enters season 14.
