{"id":51268,"date":"2025-10-12T13:38:41","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T13:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/donnie-wahlberg-on-boston-blue-and-the-return-of-danny-reagan\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T13:38:41","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T13:38:41","slug":"donnie-wahlberg-on-boston-blue-and-the-return-of-danny-reagan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/donnie-wahlberg-on-boston-blue-and-the-return-of-danny-reagan\/","title":{"rendered":"Donnie Wahlberg on &#8220;Boston Blue&#8221; and the return of Danny Reagan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>For 14 years, Donnie Wahlberg starred as Detective Danny Reagan on the CBS police procedural &#8220;Blue Bloods.&#8221; The hit drama about the Reagans, the fictional first family of the New York Police Department, had a loyal following. &#8220;I was stopped on airplanes, on trains, on the street, at basketball \u2013 you name it. Wherever I was, somebody would tell me they love &#8216;Blue Bloods,'&#8221; said Wahlberg.<\/p>\n<p>Now 56, Wahlberg is sitting at a new family&#8217;s dinner table, in &#8220;Boston Blue,&#8221; a &#8220;Blue Bloods&#8221; spinoff set in a city the actor knows well. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-large\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/10\/12\/afd3c9d4-ca71-4870-bd9a-d51425d582d8\/thumbnail\/620x349\/ff522471de4b3b37eac50d25a103fae9\/donnei-wahlberg-in-boston-blue.jpg#\" alt=\"donnei-wahlberg-in-boston-blue.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/10\/12\/afd3c9d4-ca71-4870-bd9a-d51425d582d8\/thumbnail\/620x349\/ff522471de4b3b37eac50d25a103fae9\/donnei-wahlberg-in-boston-blue.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/10\/12\/afd3c9d4-ca71-4870-bd9a-d51425d582d8\/thumbnail\/1240x698\/8ebae9702c11df064b56300f6b973b85\/donnei-wahlberg-in-boston-blue.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">Donnie Wahlberg as Detective Danny Reagan in &#8220;Boston Blue,&#8221; a spinoff of the long-running series &#8220;Blue Bloods.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                CBS<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Wahlberg grew up the eighth of nine kids in the working-class Boston neighborhood of Dorchester. &#8220;We were poor,&#8221; he said. &#8220;There were nine kids, a dog, a cat, and a grandma in the basement, and my mom and dad for a while. There were kids coming and going, running away, being arrested. There were arguments, fights, alcohol. I definitely learned from some of my older siblings that, here&#8217;s a clear path of what <em>not<\/em> to do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Wahlberg says he was the family peacemaker. &#8220;I don&#8217;t like to use the term (&#8217;cause I don&#8217;t wanna insult my other siblings), but one of the adults. My role was to get everyone together and be happy by any means necessary.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The discord wasn&#8217;t just inside the house; 1970s Boston was a cauldron of racial tension. A controversial court-ordered desegregation program bussed students to schools outside their neighborhoods. As a first grader, Wahlberg was sent from Irish-Catholic Dorchester to predominantly Black Roxbury.<\/p>\n<p>He describes it as &#8220;probably the most important thing that ever happened in my life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-left embed--size-small\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/10\/12\/94e9ce04-a504-492a-8657-6e709e1d8ce6\/thumbnail\/620x465\/0bc46d3309035abc5daa1a4d472b5c69\/donnie-wahlberg-interview-1280.jpg#\" alt=\"donnie-wahlberg-interview-1280.jpg \" height=\"465\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/10\/12\/94e9ce04-a504-492a-8657-6e709e1d8ce6\/thumbnail\/620x465\/0bc46d3309035abc5daa1a4d472b5c69\/donnie-wahlberg-interview-1280.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/10\/12\/94e9ce04-a504-492a-8657-6e709e1d8ce6\/thumbnail\/1240x930\/a7e546686b5fb8460c39298ee78318b5\/donnie-wahlberg-interview-1280.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">Donnie Wahlberg, star of &#8220;Boston Blue.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                CBS News<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Because? &#8220;Because I don&#8217;t know what I would&#8217;ve not been exposed to, had I not been on those buses. In my neighborhood, if I woulda said, &#8216;Yeah, I wanna be a singer one day,&#8217; I could think of five kids in the neighborhood who would punch me in the face. And two of them lived in my house!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It was after hearing hip hop in the fourth grade that Wahlberg caught the performing bug. &#8220;I would listen to &#8216;Rapper&#8217;s Delight,&#8217; I just would start writing my own raps and making up my own songs,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p>That helped Wahlberg earn an audition, at just 14 years old, with Maurice Starr, the local impresario who&#8217;d founded New Edition and was starting a new band. &#8220;Maurice was looking for the equivalent of the Osmonds to the Jacksons,&#8221; he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What did his parents think? &#8220;My mom was super supportive,&#8221; he recalled. &#8220;And I said, &#8216;Dad, I&#8217;m gonna start this music band.&#8217; And he said, &#8216;Well, I tell ya&#8217; what: If you ever do make it big, and you come home, and you&#8217;ve changed, I&#8217;m gonna kick your ass.'&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>In 1984, Donnie and his younger brother Mark became the first two members of New Kids on the Block. But the family affair was short-lived, as Mark quit. &#8220;He didn&#8217;t like singing,&#8221; said Donnie. &#8220;He couldn&#8217;t sing.\u00a0 There&#8217;s a scene of him as Dirk Diggler in &#8216;Boogie Nights&#8217; singing horribly. That&#8217;s actually better than he sang as a member of New Kids!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>With four other members in place (including some of Wahlberg&#8217;s schoolmates), the group struggled at first to find its footing. But by the late 1980s, they appeared to have the right stuff: <\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-youtube-video embed--float-none embed--size-large embed--type-video\">\n<p>\n    <iframe class=\"embed__content lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/tbIEwIwYz-c?autoplay=0&amp;rel=1\" data-optanon-category=\"essential\" data-height=\"113\" data-width=\"200\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe>\n  <\/p><figcaption>\n    <span class=\"embed__caption\"><br \/>\n      <cite><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/tbIEwIwYz-c\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New Kids On The Block &#8211; You Got It (The Right Stuff) (Official Video)<\/a><\/cite> by<br \/>\n      <cite><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@NewKidsVEVO\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NewKidsVEVO<\/a><\/cite> on<br \/>\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">YouTube<\/a><br \/>\n    <\/span><br \/>\n  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>While the band was popular, it was far from critics&#8217; choice. &#8220;I really struggled with the criticism of the band \u2013 <em>we couldn&#8217;t sing, we were puppets, we were fake<\/em>,&#8221; said Wahlberg.<\/p>\n<p>To feel better about himself, Wahlberg focused on writing and producing, not just for the New Kids, but also for his brother Mark. Soon enough they had a #1 hit, &#8220;Good Vibrations.&#8221; <\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-youtube-video embed--float-none embed--size-large embed--type-video\">\n<p>\n    <iframe class=\"embed__content lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/_kctwd4w7R0?autoplay=0&amp;rel=1\" data-optanon-category=\"essential\" data-height=\"113\" data-width=\"200\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe>\n  <\/p><figcaption>\n    <span class=\"embed__caption\"><br \/>\n      <cite><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/_kctwd4w7R0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Good Vibrations (Official Music Video)<\/a><\/cite> by<br \/>\n      <cite><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@MarkyMarkVEVO\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">MarkyMarkVEVO<\/a><\/cite> on<br \/>\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">YouTube<\/a><br \/>\n    <\/span><br \/>\n  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Donnie said, &#8220;Marky Mark and my brother&#8217;s career and his music was really when I started to get my head screwed on right of how I could really prove myself.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Prove himself \u2026 and protect his kid brother. &#8220;My brother was getting in trouble and my mom was like, &#8216;You gotta help your brother and get him out of the streets,'&#8221; said Wahlberg. &#8220;I don&#8217;t like to wear the Marky Mark and my brother&#8217;s career as some kind of badge of honor. He worked very hard for his career. But I really did, you know, help him in a big way, and helped myself in a big way in doing that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After the New Kids broke up in 1994, Wahlberg turned to acting, breaking through in &#8220;The Sixth Sense.&#8221; Other roles followed, including &#8220;Band of Brothers&#8221; and &#8220;Boomtown,&#8221; along with reunions for New Kids on the Block, which still keep him busy.<\/p>\n<p>Wahlberg now lives outside Chicago, in a home he shares with his second wife, TV personality Jenny McCarthy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have very similar upbringings, which really helps,&#8221; said McCarthy. &#8220;I think we&#8217;re both people-pleasers, which could also be bad if you&#8217;re not in therapy about it!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Lotta therapy we&#8217;ve each had, and together,&#8221; said Wahlberg. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But we&#8217;re caretakers, you know, of our family, which I think is something to be proud of,&#8221; McCarthy added. <\/p>\n<p>They may now live in McCarthy&#8217;s hometown, but Boston is never far from Wahlberg&#8217;s heart, as evident in his home office, which features mementoes from Bill Belichick, Bill Russell and Larry Bird. <\/p>\n<p>And then there&#8217;s his new show which he wasn&#8217;t sure he wanted to do after &#8220;Blue Bloods&#8221;&#8216; cancellation. &#8220;I love &#8216;Blue Bloods,'&#8221; he said. &#8220;I fought tooth-and-nail to keep it on the air. And here&#8217;s an opportunity to keep this character alive. And suddenly, when I started to look at it through that lens, it was like, how do I not do this? If all those millions of &#8216;Blue Bloods&#8217; fans don&#8217;t show up and love it, then I know we put our best foot forward.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Between his TV work and concerts, it&#8217;s a busy life for Donnie Wahlberg. &#8220;People say to me, &#8216;Oh, gosh, when do you sleep?&#8217; You want me to complain? Everything I ever wanted, I&#8217;m doing it. I wanna work harder, I want to be worthy of it. I want to be worthy of \u2026 the gift that so many people give me of their time. How can I not work my ass off to repay that?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But he says he&#8217;s just doing what he&#8217;s always done: &#8220;My childhood was spent trying to bring joy and love to a large group of people amidst chaos and confusion and pain. And it&#8217;s what I do for a living right now.\u00a0 It&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve grown up to do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>To watch a trailer for &#8220;Boston Blue&#8221; click on the video player below: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-youtube-video embed--float-none embed--size-large embed--type-video\">\n<p>\n    <iframe class=\"embed__content lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/5Pd_3oHSlJY?autoplay=0&amp;rel=1\" data-optanon-category=\"essential\" data-height=\"113\" data-width=\"200\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe>\n  <\/p><figcaption>\n    <span class=\"embed__caption\"><br \/>\n      <cite><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/5Pd_3oHSlJY\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">BOSTON BLUE<\/a><\/cite> by<br \/>\n      <cite><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@CBS\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CBS<\/a><\/cite> on<br \/>\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">YouTube<\/a><br \/>\n    <\/span><br \/>\n  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>For more info:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<br \/>Story produced by Michelle Kessel. 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