Bridget Moynahan is reminding fans that once you’re a Reagan, you’re always a Reagan with a sweet tribute to TV dad Tom Selleck as he celebrates another year around the sun.
“Happy Birthday to the best TV Dad! #TomSelleck #happybday,” Moynahan, 54, wrote via X on Thursday, January 29, paying homage to her Blue Bloods costar.
Moynahan shared a photo with Selleck, 81, that appears to be from the Blue Bloods set. The pair are all smiles in the picture as Selleck sits at a kitchen table and Moynahan leans over his shoulder to pose for the camera.
Moynahan, who played Selleck’s TV daughter, Erin Reagan, on Blue Bloods for 14 seasons wasn’t the only one to toast the actor’s birthday. (Selleck played NYPD Police Commissioner Frank Reagan on the CBS show.)
Selleck’s right-hand man, or rather woman, from the series Abigail Hawk, who played 1PP secretary and former cop Abigail Baker, didn’t let the day go by without sharing a few memories with the birthday boy via social media.
“Happy birthday, boss!” Hawk, 43, wrote via her Instagram Story on a group picture from years past.
The picture, which included balloons that were floating above the cast, was set to New Kids on the Block’s “Happy Birthday.”
The song choice was a nod to Blue Bloods costar and now Boston Blue lead Donnie Wahlberg, who played Frank’s son Danny Reagan and is a member of the ‘90s boy band.
“Wishing you more laughs like this!” Hawk wrote alongside another photo with Selleck and former castmate Robert Clohessy, who portrayed another 1PP member of Frank’s team, Sid Gormley.
Hawk added another Easter egg to the second snap, this time with a sticker of Selleck from his Magnum P.I. days with the word “moustache” written next to it. (Selleck was famous for his sexy moustache while playing private investigator Thomas Magnum on the CBS show from 1980 to 1988.)
Both Moynahan and Hawk formed a close bond with Selleck while starring on Blue Bloods. The procedural premiered in 2010 on CBS and followed Selleck’s Frank Reagan and his family of first responders.
In addition to Frank being the current police commissioner, his father, Henry Reagan (Len Cariou), was his predecessor. Frank’s three living children — his eldest son Joe was killed in the line of duty — are all in the business of helping others.
Son Danny (Wahlberg) is an NYPD police detective while Erin (Moynahan) works in the district attorney’s office before becoming the ADA. Their youngest brother, Jamie (Will Estes), went to law school but chose to become a cop like his brothers and father.
The show ran for 14 seasons with nearly 300 episodes and at its core was a series about family. (On Sundays the Reagans all had dinner together, without fail.)
Ahead of the series finale, which aired in December 2024, Moynahan exclusively told Us Weekly that Blue Bloods was “more than a job. It [was] a massive part of all of our lives.”
Hawk, for her part, exclusively told Us in December 2024 that getting to know the man behind the mustache, a.k.a. Selleck, so well was one of the biggest blessings of playing one of his employees on the show.
“I just think for somebody who is the literal embodiment of, like, the Marlboro Man [a.k.a. the smoking cowboy] and the Brawny Man [a lumberjack figure], and [a] mustached icon that so many of us are like, ‘That’s a man,’” Hawk said of the public’s perception of Selleck.
She revealed that at his core, Selleck “loved his mom” and frequently reminisced about his childhood to her and her castmates.
“I just feel like getting to see those little snapshots of the man behind the legend is what I treasure the most about him,” Hawk added.
Since the series went off the air, the spinoff show Boston Blue, which follows Danny’s life in Boston after he moves from New York to look after son Sean (now played by Mika Amonsen) as he starts his career as a cop in Beantown, has given Blue Bloods a little piece of the beloved OG series.
Moynahan is among the original cast members who has made a cameo on the sequel show — with more to come.
Boston Blue returns with new episodes on CBS Friday, February 27, at 10 p.m. ET. New episodes will be streaming the next day on Paramount+.
