The ‘Blue Bloods’ star kept his birthday laid-back—see how he celebrated and look back at his legendary career!

The Blue Bloods alum is ba da ba ba baaa—lovin’ turning 80! Tom Selleck celebrated his special day solo by heading to the McDonald’s drive-thru for a birthday treat. The actor was seen picking up a burger at the fast food joint and fans are loving it.

Later that day, the actor and his wife, Jillie Mack, 67, and daughter Hannah Selleck, 36, were seen heading into Tuscany il Ristorante for a bigger celebration with family. But Selleck recently shared that he is not much of a birthday person and that he hasn’t celebrated in quite a few years.

Tom Selleck on turning 80: ‘I stopped celebrating birthdays a while back’

When asked what his plans were to ring in the new decade, Selleck said he hadn’t planned anything.

“None whatsoever,” Selleck told Parade magazine of his birthday plans. “I’m trying not to count. I stopped celebrating birthdays a while back. I intend to keep working. I’ll probably have dinner with maybe my brother and my sister and Jillie, just go out to dinner, kind of be quiet and not make a big deal of it.”

A look back at Tom Selleck’s iconic Hollywood career

Selleck has had an impressive career ever since it began in the late 1960s. Over the years, you’ve seen him as Thomas Magnum on Magnum, P.I., Dr. Richard Burke on Friends and as Jesse Stone in multiple films of the same name.

Magnum, P.I. (1980–1988)

His role on Magnum won the actor a Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actor in 1985, as well as a Primetime Emmy a year earlier. But although Selleck seemed to be living the life, he didn’t love it as much as you’d think.

“I didn’t like it,” Selleck explained of the attention. “Mainly because of family and a sense of privacy.” But he did live a life just like Magnum’s.

“I had a lovely house in Hawaii,” he said. “It was a tiny little house — a one-bedroom house. I rented it…I actually was living Magnum’s life at the beach and stuff.”

Three Men and a Baby (1987) & Three Men and a Little Lady (1990)

Selleck also made a splash on the big screen, starring in Three Men and a Baby (1987) alongside Ted Danson and Steve Guttenberg, as well as its sequel, Three Men and a Little Lady (1990). In 1997, Selleck portrayed Peter Malloy in In & Out alongside Kevin Kline, Joan Cusack, Matt Dillon and Debbie Reynolds.

Friends (1996–2000)

Dr. Richard Burke, anyone? Selleck’s guest-starring role as Monica’s charming older boyfriend remains one of the most iconic storylines in Friends history.

Blue Bloods (2010–2024)

In 2010, he stole the show as Frank Reagan in the police procedural series, Blue Bloods, which went on for 14 seasons, before coming to an end in 2024. The show’s stars, Selleck included, were not happy about the cancellation of the series.

“We’re the third-highest scripted show in all of broadcast,” Selleck said about Blue Bloods. “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.”

But despite the cast’s feelings about the end of the show, CBS still decided to cancel it, something that Selleck wasn’t happy about. “My frustration is the show was always taken for granted because it performed from the get-go,” the actor said.