Tom Selleck revealed he “couldn't get a girlfriend” while appearing on The Dating Game.
The 79-year-old actor admitted in an interview about his humble beginnings in show business. This interview resurfaced in promotion of his new autobiography, You Never Know: A Memoir. His decades-long television and film career.
He told People magazine about appearing on The Dating Game in the early 1980s:
“I didn't understand the girl.”
Tom's big break came from 1974 to 1975 when he appeared on the soap opera “The Young and the Restless,'' before playing the role of private investigator Thomas Magnum on the hit CBS show “Magnum, P.I.'' That was it.
He played Jed Andrews on the show, the love interest of Laurie Brooks, played by Jamie Lynn Bauer.
Three Men and a Baby star now tells People that he didn't want to act for the fame, adding: '.
“I've never talked like that in my life. I just wanted to get a job and work.”
It took Tom four years to complete his memoir, which he says is “a series of failures and endless failures.”
Furthermore, he added: “If you're going to get into acting, you better be motivated.
“And I tried to convey that…because it was kind of a long road.”
Tom also spoke about being cautious about sharing anecdotes about the many celebrities he's met and worked with during his career. Understood. “
One of Tom's biggest career failures was losing out on the role of Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Ark, despite being offered the role by director Steven Spielberg. Ta. After the show's pilot was adapted into a full series (because his bosses at Magnum, P.I. wouldn't allow him to appear), he signed on to take it on.