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Tom Selleck has never sent a text or an email.
The 79-year-old actor has 'occasionally' looked himself up online while researching his memoir, You Never Know, but he largely stays away from the digital world and gets either his secretary or his wife Jillie to answer his messages.
'Occasionally I've looked up my name. That started really with the book, but I've never sent my own email. I had a secretary. I've never texted anybody,' he told People magazine.
The Three Men and a Baby actor admitted it is a 'luxury' that his wife is happy to reply to texts on his behalf.
He said: 'I have a certain luxury where I probably couldn't survive otherwise.'
Tom Selleck has never sent a text or an email. The 79-year-old actor has 'occasionally' looked himself up online while researching his memoir, You Never Know, but he largely stays away from the digital world and gets either his secretary or his wife Jillie to answer his messages, he told People. Seen in 2010
At the age of 35, he landed the lead role as Thomas Magnum on the primetime series Magnum PI which became a cultural phenomenon; he said his secretary has helped him with tech ever since
His new book comes out on May 7
He added: 'But I don't know. I have a hard time writing things down, which is weird for a guy who's pushing a book.'
When he isn't filming, Tom - who has two adult children, Kevin with ex-wife Jacqueline Ray, and Hannah, with Jillie, 66 - explained he doesn't really watch TV and spends his time either looking at his scripts for 'Blue Bloods' or enjoying the grounds of his 63-acre ranch in California.
He said of his wildflowers: 'I've planted them for years and they bloom in cycles. When it's coldest, one of them blooms and then another one comes in. I know it sounds stupid, but I just watch them grow.'
And asked how he enjoys himself in his quieter moments, Tom said: 'A cigar and a glass of whisky is a nice way to end the day.
'I've had a very good life, a very lucky life. I don't know if it's what I figured I'd be doing, but it's with a lot of gratitude.'
But the veteran actor told how he was left devastated when droughts destroyed almost all the avocado trees and decimated around 25 100-year-old oaks on the ranch.
He said: 'That just breaks your heart. But with the rain we've had, the sick ones are getting better, and they're all sprouting a lot of healthy growth.'
The Detroit native said he kind of lucked into acting after he became a model.
When he starred in a Pepsi commercial in the late 1960s, he started to feel that he could make a living as an actor, but it was a 'long road' to fame that was littered with many 'failures,' he shared.
The Blue Bloods actor is reminiscing about his career as he is set to release his new memoir You Never Know due out May 7.
He became a massive TV star in the 1980s at the age of 35 with the show Magnum PI where he played a handsome detective living in Hawaii. Selleck on his hit show Magnum PI which was on from 1980 until 1988
Selleck also had a role as Dr. Richard Burke and Courteney Cox as Monica Geller on Friends
Selleck is planning to relax and travel when the curtain falls on the final episode of his hit police show Blue Bloods. The actor's 13-year run on the CBS series is coming to an end later this year
His career started in his early 20s, but he would not find fame until he was in his mid 30s.
Tom - who is 6ft4in - won a full basketball scholarship to University Of Southern California in Los Angeles.
He was majoring in business administration and didn't even step foot into the drama department.
But then he was chosen to star as a basketball player in a Pepsi commercial. He was noticed during the commercial and then was asked to join the popular TV show The Dating Game.
'It is really the story of an accidental career,' he told the outlet.
