Magnum PI star Tom Selleck hails from the former mining village near Barnsley
ALL-American Magnum PI star Tom Selleck hails from a former mining village near Barnsley, research has found.
The 78-year-old television actor was born in Detroit, Michigan and solved crimes in Hawaii in the hit series of the 1980s.
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So it came as a shock to distant cousin Caroline Coffey, 55, when she found him on a branch of her family tree.
The retired nanny revealed: “Tom’s great-great-grandfather, Robert Jagger, was born in Yorkshire in 1856 and one of his sons, Thomas, emigrated to America.
“My grandma was a jagger.”
Caroline said she found a picture of her great-grandfather Robert and he was “a dead wrestler” of Tom – with the same eyes and mustache.
She said: “When I saw that, along with the other research, I knew that Tom was part of our family.
“I always thought there was something about him.”
