How the Blue Bloods cast faked eating their way through Reagan family dinners: We all have tricks

Talk about a gag! The cast of “Blue Blood” revealed how they navigated through those family dinners for the past 14 seasons.Tom Selleck finally let the cat out of the bag, revealing all of his co-stars have tricks to make it look like they are eating.

He also admitted that some of his cast members are better than others at faking it.“The truth can be told, because the eight episodes [of the final season] are done,” Selleck, who played the patriarch Frank Reagan for over a decade, said during a PaleyFest panel per Entertainment Weekly on Thursday ahead of the show’s final season.He then broke down Bridget Moynahan (aka Erin Reagan) and his secrets before putting the rest of his castmates — Donnie Wahlberg (Danny Reagan) and Vanessa Ray (Eddie Janko), who were also at the event — on blast.“We all have tricks. Bridget is a food masher.She keeps her hand real active and combines her potatoes and everything,” Selleck shared at the event.

“I butter rolls.I know everybody else has some tricks they might confess before it’s too late.”Ray revealed she didn’t know everyone else was pretending when she first began filming, adding she quickly learned to join Moynahan’s potato mashing club.“The first several times I was at the dinner table, I did eat the rolls.

I didn’t just butter the rolls,” she said.“And I think Bridget, at one point, was like, ‘You sure you want to do that?’ I’m like, ‘Why? What?’ [And she said,] ‘Well, it’s your funeral, girl.’ And I kept eating and I realized, ‘Oh, you can’t eat 17 rolls.'”On the other hand, Wahlberg claimed he ate every time but was selective in his food choices if he had an upcoming New Kids on the Block gig.“There’s a silly part of the eating and a real part of the eating, and the silly part is if I was going on tour the following summer, I ate only vegetables,” he confessed.

“If I wasn’t, I ate whatever.And I did get high a few times off the whipped cream in ...