Tom Selleck is gearing up to spend the holidays with his favorite people! The Blue Bloods star is looking forward to having quality time with his family this Christmas after the series finale of the show airs.
Tom, 79, lives on a 63-acre avocado ranch in Ventura County, California, with his wife, Jillie Mack. They share daughter Hannah Selleck. The Magnum, P.I. alum is also a dad to son Kevin, whom he adopted during his first marriage to Jacqueline Ray.
“We had a ritual at the ranch for years,” Tom said of his family’s past holiday traditions during a Friday, December 6, interview with Parade. “It’s an old hunting lodge that was built in 1910. All the Selleck family, my brothers and sisters, my mom and dad, we’d all open presents in the lodge and then go over to the house and have dinner. It’s gotten impossible because my mom and dad are gone and my brothers and sisters all had kids and now they have kids. We’d need to rent a hall.”
But now that his kids are older, Tom shared that his family traditions have changed.
“Christmas is something for Jillie and Hannah and me, really,” he told the outlet. “Maybe we go to one of my brothers’ or my sister’s house for a while, but mainly it’s family time just for us.”
Tom recently made a red carpet appearance with Jillie, 66, and Hannah, 35, at PaleyFest 2024 at The Paley Museum in October in New York City. He was there to celebrate the historic end of Blue Bloods after 14 successful seasons on CBS.
“These eight shows that we can look forward to are because CBS agreed and wanted to do that and celebrate – not only celebrate Blue Bloods but commemorate its legacy. And I just wanted to thank them,” he said at the event before part two of Blue Bloods season 14 began airing on CBS.
Tom also reflected on the show blowing all expectations out of the water in the difficult Friday, 10 p.m. time slot.
“I have great faith and have had great faith in broadcast television. I think it’s suffered from being put in second or third place. And, you know, I don’t think everybody in the world wants to spend an hour on their remote control looking for what they might want to see,” he told the crowd.
“That was hard at 10 o’clock at night … That’s rare. And, as much as anything, it’s a reflection of the work we do. And that’s kind of the ultimate compliment,” Tom added.
Above all of his achievements in Hollywood, the thing that Tom takes pride in most is being a dad.
“You never stop being a dad even though your kids are grown,” the doting dad told Parade in September 2018. “There aren’t a lot of good, strong, examples of patriarchs trying to do the right thing on television. So, I think that performs a certain function; fathers are important.”