Blue Bloods' Danny Reagan Almost Had His Real-Life Wife Play His On-Screen Lover
Jenny McCarthy turned down the offer to join Blue Bloods as her husband's significant one — but which one, and why?
Donnie Wahlberg and Jenny McCarthy are an actor couple, there's no secret to that.
They're happy together, and they even did a reality show about themselves in the past called Donnie Loves Jenny — as they both like acting in comedies, the couple treated it as their own little sitcom.
They also plan to co-host a game show one day.
But few people know that apart from Donnie Loves Jenny, the actors had a chance to star together in a much bigger series — Blue Bloods, where Wahlberg plays fans' favorite Danny Reagan.
As Wahlberg revealed in his recent interview with TV Insider, the showrunners offered Jenny a role when the actors were already dating: she was supposed to play Danny's, high-school love, Marianne Romero.
She would've made an appearance in one of the flashbacks in season 4, episode Growing Boys.
Despite this being a good offer and a chance to film together with Donnie, McCarthy declined — as Wahlberg says, "to her credit."
It was the very beginning of the couple's relationship, and Jenny didn't want to overcomplicate things for themselves or for the fans. She believed it would've been "disruptive for the audience."
In the end, Marianne Romero's role was taken over by Charisma Carpenter (Buffy the Vampire Slayer ), and Jenny McCarthy has no regrets about passing on the opportunity as she felt that was the right thing to do.
After all these years, Donnie and Jenny are still happy together, and there's hope of actually seeing them together in Blue Bloods one day.
Wahlberg claims he would've been glad to have her as a guest star for a couple of entries, but he doubts it will happen due to Jenny's job as a judge in the hit TV show The Masked Singer.
Even considering her tight schedule, there's still hope that Jenny makes her appearance in Blue Bloods one day: the show just got renewed for season 14 after the cast agreed to a massive pay cut, and if the new season performs well, it will likely keep going.
Source: TV Insider