
“My moustache gets so many questions, he’s got his own agent now,” Tom Selleck famously told the Radio Times in 2011. It’s a running joke he’s kept up ever since.
Ironically, at that point in time, moustaches couldn’t have been less talked about: it was the advent of the hipster beard and man bun era, when meticulously groomed yet sprawling facial hair reigned supreme, emphasised by its accompanying up-do. Selleck’s was purely cherished due to its historical significance as the coolest moustache of the 80s (and then, thanks to his appearance in Friends, briefly, in the 90s).