Blue Bloods - Vanessa Ray & Will Estes

… play Officers Jamie Reagan and Edit “Eddie” Janko, a couple who makes it work, in and out of uniform.

- Jessica Shaw

Good news for #jamko fans: Will Estes and Vanessa Ray, who play Blue Bloods’ patrol partners turned precinct paramours Eddie Janko and Jamie Reagan, are every bit as adorable when the cameras aren’t rolling. And that’s saying something, because on-screen, these two have had a swoon-worthy run, from Jamie endearing himself to Eddie’s difficult mother to Eddie’s crazy jealousy when Jamie flirted with a beautiful doctor, all the way up to last season’s tear-inducing engagement.

But no amount of watching Estes and Ray’s on-camera chemistry can prepare you for spending an afternoon with these two, who constantly crack each other up, finish each other’s sentences, and give supportive compliments—only to playfully mock each other seconds later. “Get him out of here!” Estes jokingly scolds Ray when her actual husband’s name pops up on her ringing phone.

Sharing a couch in Ray’s dressing room on the Brooklyn set, in between pop-in chats from Bloods family members Tom Selleck and Donnie Wahlberg (not to mention a drive-by from Wahlberg’s wife, Jenny McCarthy, and their brand-new Pomeranian puppies), the co-stars talked about the awkwardness of making out on camera with your real-life platonic best friend, why they were initially opposed to their characters coupling, and what the future holds for the fan favorite duo. (Spoiler alert: it may change around the seating at the Reagan family dinners!)

Do you remember your very first auditions to play Jamie and Eddie?