Tom Selleck, 75, reveals why he quit his 80s show Magnum PI

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbi...calms-him.html

He purchased the ranch in 1988 after he quit Magnum P.I. - fame got to be too much for him he said and he needed a time out.

'I knew intellectually what it would mean in terms of being a public person, but until you've lived it, there's no way to understand it,' said the star.

'I had a feeling of, "I don't think I'm cut out for this."'

And Tom explained why he left the smash hit Magnum PI in 1988 after eight years on the air.

He played the stud of Hawaii that drove a red Ferrari and did private investigative work.

'I quit Magnum, not because I didn't like it or I was tired of it,' he explained. 'I was tired from it. And I wanted a three-dimensional life because I didn't have one.'

He didn't like what he was being offered so he took time off.

'I put up with the articles that said he's disappeared, he's done. And you do get done, I'm well aware of that. It was a big lull, but it put a lot of things in perspective,' he noted.

Then came the part on Friends in the 1990s; he appeared as the beau of Monica, played by Courteney Cox.

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I've been watching Magnum PI a lot on Hallmark lately