Donnie Wahlberg has special plans for a few items he took from the set of “Blue Bloods” when the show finished filming its series finale.
After 14 seasons, the CBS drama will air its final episode Dec. 13, but fans of the show can still see several props and costumes at Wahlberg’s fast-food restaurant chain, Wahlburgers.
“I took my two Danny Reagan costumes — my blue suit and my dress blues,” he told People. “I put them on mannequins and put them in a Wahlburgers.”
The actor also decided to take another prop that was featured prominently in the TV show: the Reagan family’s dining table.
“I really had no intention of taking anything from the set until I learned that that table and chairs was just sitting in a warehouse somewhere,” he said.
Wahlburgers customers will have the opportunity to see the table and chairs in person at a restaurant near them soon when the props start appearing at various locations, starting with one in St. Charles, Illinois, where he and wife Jenny McCarthy live, according to People.
“I’ll set it up where fans can sit at the table and take pictures,” Wahlberg said.
Later on, the 55-year-old will sell the table and chairs, with proceeds benefiting several causes that are close to his heart.
“And then I’m going to raffle it probably for charity for the DEA, the Detectives Endowment Association, for the Widows and Children’s Fund,” he said.
In October, Wahlberg appeared on TODAY with Hoda & Jenna to discuss the final season of “Blue Bloods” and said the 14 years he spent filming the show “went by in the blink of an eye.”
“This was an amazing opportunity and a wonderful experience, and I made so many amazing lifelong relationships and had a wonderful 14 years with our cast and crew in this city,” he said.
Wahlberg noted that he felt “emotional” but not “sad” when the show wrapped filming.
“It’s really more gratitude. It’s not sad-itude,” he explained.
While recalling the last scene he shot with one of his co-stars, Wahlberg noted that his other co-star Tom Selleck was in the room watching, which he described as a rare occurrence.
“He’s a really serious, focused man, and he likes to cover up his emotions. He doesn’t like to show vulnerability. And I looked across, and he had tears in his eyes,” he said. “That memory for me still brings up a lot for me just, you know, because it kind of made me reflect on not just the 14 years of the show, but my whole life’s journey.
Wahlberg went on to explain that he was a fan of Selleck before he worked with him.
“To watch this man on TV as a little kid in a family where we didn’t know if the lights were going to get turned off tonight, and if I’d ever be able to watch TV again, to suddenly now I’m working with this man, and he’s there to support me on my last day of work. It just filled me with tremendous humility,” he said.
