Here’s What Nobody Told You About Donnie Wahlberg & Jenny McCarthy
Donnie Wahlberg left his wife Jenny McCarthy “shaking” and almost lost for words after he surprised her in the most unexpected way.
The Blue Bloods star took a trip down memory lane on Wednesday in honor of the series premiere of The Masked Singer’s ninth season, and shared a behind-the-scenes clip of when he appeared on the show back in 2021 – and his reveal, which you can watch in the video below, was a huge surprise to everyone, but especially his wife!
Donnie wasn’t a contestant on the series but acted as more of a clue-master for the panel throughout the season and disguised himself as a rooster known as Cluedle-Doo.
In the video he shared on Instagram, Donnie can be seen backstage being helped into his costume, which consisted of a bedazzled rooster head, a white and black biker jacket, and matching pants.
Captioning the clip, he wrote: “#waybackwednesday morphing into this guy, or should I say rooster, #CluedleDoo on The Masked Singer! In honor of @jennymccarthy and the crew — @nickcannon @nicolescherzinger @kenjeong & @robinthicke! Congrats on the Season 9 Premiere of #themaskedsinger.”
At the time of the big reveal, Jenny was enthusiastically shouting the show’s catchphrase, ‘Take it off’ as Donnie was removing the head of his costume.
But when his face was unmasked, Jenny’s jaw dropped, and she collapsed to the ground in shock before leaning her head on the judge’s desk and screaming: “Oh my God!”
As her fellow panelists Ken and Nicole huddled around her, she lifted up her trembling hand and added: “I’m shaking… Donnie! Have you been coming in each week and lying?”
“She’s that extra person at the family dinner,” costar Bridget Moynahan said.
Jenny McCarthy may not be on camera for the Blue Bloods Sunday dinners, but she’s still an honorary part of the Reagan family tradition.
In a preview clip from Tuesday’s episode of The Drew Barrymore Show, Blue Bloods costars Donnie Wahlberg and Bridget Moynahan share the details about their unseen dinner guest, who just so happens to be married to Wahlberg. “She’s that extra person at the family dinner,” Moynahan tells host Drew Barrymore. “The phone is always there, and in between takes it’s like, ‘Hi, honey,’ ‘Hi, honey,’ and we’re all, ‘Jenny!” So she’s always there.”
Wahlberg wed McCarthy in 2014 and has starred on Blue Bloods since 2010, portraying Det. Danny Reagan, the son of Tom Selleck’s Commissioner Frank Reagan.
Donnie replied: “I’ve been sneaking in and out,” which caused her again to exclaim: “Oh my God!”
Shortly after the episode aired, Jenny spoke of her shock over her husband’s surprise appearance on the show.
But it’s not merely Blue Bloods dinner scenes that McCarthy is present for. Wahlberg reveals the sweet way the couple stays close while he’s in New York filming the long-running CBS series and McCarthy is in Los Angeles taping The Masked Singer. “We now have the luxury of being able to sleep together when we’re apart,” he says. “So whoever’s going to sleep first just calls the other one. We spend the whole night together when we’re not together.”
Wahlberg clarifies that it’s out of a desire to be together more than anything. “Look, that’s not that we’re insecure or that we need to do this, we love to do it,” he notes. Barrymore reassures him, saying that he was one of the first guests on her show to make her believe technology might be a good thing.
“It’s like, why not?” Wahlberg concludes. “We’re gonna miss each other, why wake up saying, ‘Oh God I missed you, I woke up at 3 in the morning.’ I tell her, ‘If you wake up at 3 in the morning, can’t sleep, just tap me on the shoulder through the phone and I’ll wake up and hang out with you.'”
