Unlike Tom Selleck, Donnie Wahlberg Is ‘Not Sad’ About ‘Blue Bloods’ Ending – Here’s Why
The last eight episodes of the final season of Blue Bloods are currently airing on CBS on Friday nights. The show’s star Tom Selleck was left shocked and devastated last year when CBS announced that it was cancelling Blue Bloods after fourteen seasons.
As recently as last month, Selleck was still expressing his “frustrations” with CBS for canceling the police procedural. Unlike Selleck, however, the Blue Bloods star Donnie Wahlberg is “not sad” that the show is ending.
Donnie Is ‘Just Incredibly Grateful’
Donnie, 55, told TV Insider that he is “just incredibly grateful” for “the journey” that he’s had on Blue Bloods since 2010.
He is particularly excited about being on the cover of the latest edition of TV Guide Magazine. He made the cover along with Tom, 79, and their Blue Bloods co-stars.
“There are moments in life when something happens that just kind of puts your life into perspective, not just your work or your career,” he said. “This final episode of Blue Bloods — and this! I remember going into grocery stores with my mom as a little kid and seeing the TV Guide right there at the checkout counter and wanting to get one but we couldn’t afford it.”
“We could only just get what groceries we could, and anything extra was not coming into our house,” he added. “And now I’m on the cover of a special edition, and it’s something that I worked on. I’m next to the guy from Magnum P.I., who I grew up watching.”
Donnie Is Focusing On ‘Gratitude’
This has allowed Donnie to focus more on gratitude than on potentially feeling “sad” about Blue Bloods ending.
“It puts not only the show in perspective, it puts how fortunate we all are on the show [in perspective],” he explained. “I’m sure everybody in the cast and crew worked a good part of their lives to be able to be part of something that could be a fraction of this successful.”‘
“To see this and know how much it means to so many people around the country and the world, from that little kid who couldn’t even read about Magnum, P.I. because we couldn’t afford the TV Guide to now be on the cover next to him playing his son for 14 years — I dreamed big as a kid, but it’s beyond what I could have ever dreamed of,” Donnie gushed.
Donnie explained that he is “not sad” about Blue Bloods coming to an end because he is “very grateful for the journey.”
“I’m just incredibly grateful,” he said.
Tom Struggling To Come To Terms With Blue Bloods Ending
Sadly, Tom is still so upset about Blue Bloods being cancelled that he hasn’t been able to adopt Donnie’s positive attitude on the situation.
“If you were to say to the television network, ‘Here’s a show you can program in the worst time slot you got, and it is going to guarantee you winning Friday night for the next 15 years,’ it would be almost impossible to believe,” he said last month. “My frustration is the show was always taken for granted because it performed from the get-go.”
Tom spent months doing everything he could to save Blue Bloods.
“I will continue to think that CBS will come to their senses,” he told CBS News back in May. “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!”
Fans are still just as devastated about Blue Bloods‘ cancellation as Tom is. However, there’s something to be said about Donnie focusing on “gratitude” during this time of transition in his life.
