Blue Bloods

Donnie’s actress wife Jenny McCarthy. Season 7 M-Net (*101) 20:30 Action

Donnie Wahlberg has been in showbiz for years. While he’s known these days as Boston Detective Danny Reagan on cop show Blue Bloods (2010-current), he’s better known for his days in ’90s boyband New Kids On The Block. And it’s something that he will always hold dear to his heart. “It was our start,” he says. “Look how far we’ve all come!”

By “we”, Donnie is talking about 1

his little brother Mark Wahlberg, who was a rapper and model in the ’90s and is now one of the biggest names in acting. They grew up in a tough Boston neighbourhood and were arrested for crimes like arson and stealing cars.

Despite his criminal ways, the 472

year-old seems drawn to police roles. He’s played Detective Matthews in three of the Saw movies (2005, 2007 and 2008), Detective Stevens in Boomtown (2002-2003) and Lieutenant Grant in a handful of episodes of Rizzoli & Isles (2010-2016) in 2010.

He’s a self-confessed “minimum 3

sleeper” and Donnie says that he only needs three hours of rest a night. If you want to know how his actress wife Jenny McCarthy (Courtney in Two & A Half Men, 2003-2015) handles it, the couple have their own reality show Donnie Loves Jenny (2015-current).

They’ve been married since 2014 4

and have three sons – Donnie’s boys Xavier (23) and Elijah (15) with his ex Kim Fey and Jenny’s autistic son Evan (14) with her ex John Mallory Asher.

Besides singing and acting, Donnie 5

has added to his $20 million (R288 million) net worth as a part owner of Wahlburgers, his Boston restaurant with Mark and their older brother Paul. And it’s a job he loves, saying, “I put on 13kg just testing recipes for the place! [Chef] Paul knows a thing about the grill!”