TOM SELLECK AT 80 ALEYFE ti I'm Not Slowing Down

THE BLUE BLOODS ALUM IS ALREADY PLANNING HIS NEXT CHAPTER

- By LOUISE A. BARILE

Tom Selleck doesn’t like to be the center of a lot of fuss, but he agreed to allow his wife, Jillie Mack, to throw him a small 80th birthday party with just family — against his better judgement. “I stopped celebrating birthdays a while back,” Tom admits. “I’m trying not to count.”

As he passed this new milestone on Jan. 29, Tom looked straight ahead — eager to meet his next challenge in his long career. “I would love to do another comedy,” he says. “[And] a good western’s always on my list. I miss that. I want to sit on a horse again.” Tom would be delighted to do a Blue Bloods spin-off or television movie. He’s also angling for a return as detective Jesse Stone, a character he last played in a TV movie a decade ago. “It would be an interesting challenge because Jesse is older now,” Tom says. “There’ve been quite a few years.”

The California-reared actor became a household name at age 35 playing private detective Thomas Magnum on