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How Tom Selleck's spokesperson career may tarnish his Blue Bloods good guy image
Tom Selleck, fresh off his longtime lead in CBS's recently canceled Blue Bloods, continues to play his most controversial role: pitching loans to aging boomers struggling with their finances.
Having built his fandom over decades starring in crime dramas, including the 1980s hit Magnum PI, Selleck has appeared in a series of TV commercials and YouTube infomercials aimed to convince people 62 years and older to convert their home equity into tax-free cash. They note that about one in ten end in default and foreclosure, and that the rate spiked even higher in the wake of the Great Recession and Covid pandemic when many borrowers couldn't meet their obligations to maintain repairs, insurance, and property taxes on their homes. He began his side gig as a spokesman for Finance of America, then AAG, in 2016 after the company searched to replace the late U.S. senator from Tennessee turned Law and Order star Fred Thompson, a Republican who ran for president in 2008.
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