Clever people you find sexy

[StormyDaniels]

They can be good looking too, but that’s not the main reason you find them attractive. Or they have a good voice on the radio and you have no idea what they look like.

I have gone off him a bit now, but mine used to be Ian Hislop.

No shaming!

It's a yes from me for Giles Coren.

Giles Coren is a twat though, isn’t he?

A sexy twat

*BirthdayCakes

Aren't most of these just 'educated' rather than necessarily clever?

There is a difference. I think British (English) people often confuse 'educated' (ie private school) with actually intelligent.. And that's why you have people claiming Boris is clever.*

Educated does not equal private school!

Portillo, Paxman and Dumbledore!

My fantasy holiday is driving through Italy with Andrew Graham
Dixon, looking at fabulous art

Mark Kermode - clever, seems throughly decent, very funny.
Victoria Coren and David Mitchell are my dream double date couple.
I won’t say I fancy him exactly but I always found Phil from time team really fascinating - I love people who have unabashed passion for a subject.

• My 6th form English teacher - late fifties, not immediately prepossessing, but had an utterly confident personality and an intensity and passion for literature coupled with a strict manner that set me up for a lifetime of ‘clever slightly dominant man’ kink

Horses4 - I saw Simon Reeve last year- he was excellent! Really entertaining. Have fun.

Sapiosexual.... Someone who finds intelligence a turn on. That's me. I even have it on my dating profile. I get very excited by someone who can demonstrate their intelligence through achievement. Intelligence without ambition doesn't do it for me. It needs to be overt, but never condescending. I can listen to a man talk about science for hours and I'll forget his looks. I'll be sucked into his brain...

Giles Coren is a twat though, isn’t he?

Yes.

Andy Hamilton
Ian Hislop
Dara O'Brien

Ian Hislop, he could just talk to me all day & I would be in raptures.

And Michelle Obama she could talk to me all day & night & I'd be in raptures.

Stephanie Flanders (economist who used to be BBC reporter).

@derxa I wasn't joking. I do find him very sexy. I didn't say he wasn't bright, he's quite the opposite and is very charismatic. The thread asked which clever person do you find attractive, so I gave my answer .

Louis Theroux
Robert Peston
Mark Carney
Steve Backshall
Chris Packham

I worked with Carol Vorderman - she's thick as shit.

AnnabelleLecter, I'd like to go interrailing around Europe with Michael Portillo!

Jarvis Cocker.

Dr Jonathan Foyle - beautiful eyes.

No worries Timmy.

Giles Coren likes to slag off Mensa. Suspect he didn't make the grade which means he can't be on this list.

He can be on the sexy twat list instead

David Mitchell also slags off Mensa a bit. I think on the basis that if you’re that clever, do something with it rather than just join a club with other clever people. Is there more to Mensa than that?
I don’t know, I’m too thick to join

Ooh Richard Osman totally ticks my boxes! He also looks quite like my dh...

Anyone who wants to join a Mensa is a knob. It's an utterly pointless organisation.