The Truth About Tom Selleck's Famous Mustache

Publish date: 2024-05-05

When Tom Selleck rose to fame in the early 1980s on "Magnum, P.I." it was during an era when having a mustache was fashionable for men. Take a look through photos of famous men from the '80s and you'll find quite a few with mustaches, including the late Alex Trebek, singer Lionel Richie, and the late Freddie Mercury, per People

Technically, Selleck's current mustache is a chevron mustache (per Outsider), which over the years has also come to be known as the Selleck mustache. It even has its own Facebook page and the social media site designates Tom Selleck's Mustache as a public figure. Even his bosses want Selleck to rock the 'stache. In 2017, Selleck revealed that a director on "Blue Bloods" wanted him to shave his mustache. The show's creator checked with the network to see if that was OK and CBS basically declared, "Tom has a mustache," Selleck said (via YouTube).

Selleck also revealed that he likes accuracy in his characters, so for his "Blue Bloods" character as a police commissioner, he said he researched whether someone in that job can have one or not. But as for when he realized his mustache was part of his persona, he doesn't remember how it happened, but he said, "After Magnum, I realized I was going to have to live with mustache questions for the rest of my life."

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