Donnie Wahlberg Shares His Hopes for ‘Blue Bloods’ Future After Cast Takes Pay Cut for Season 14: ‘I’m an Optimist’
usmagazine.comA glass half full kind of guy. Donnie Wahlberg has a positive outlook when it comes to the future of CBS’ Blue Bloods.The long-running police procedural was renewed for season 14 on March 29, though the cast and producers agreed to take a “25 percent pay cut” in order to keep the show on the air for one more season, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
However, Wahlberg, 53, is hopeful that the show will continue on past season 14.“I’m an optimist,” the New Kids on the Block singer said in an exclusive interview with Us Weekly while promoting season 5 of ID’s Very Scary People — which returns on Sunday, April 16. “I try to take every episode as it comes.
I really do. I think it’s part of why I’ve enjoyed myself on the show for 13 years.”Wahlberg — who shares sons Xavier, 30, and Elijah, 21, with ex-wife Kimberly Fey — plays Detective Danny Reagan on the CBS series, which premiered in September 2012.
The show follows the lives of the Reagan family, many of whom work for the NYPD under the leadership of his father, NYC Police Commissioner Frank Reagan (Tom Selleck).
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