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Who was your celeb teen crush and do you still fancy them now they've got older?

211 replies

VampireTheBuffetSlayer · 30/03/2021 00:04

Mine was Dave Gahan from Depeche Mode. I was 14 when I first heard them and was a big fan from the get go. Then I saw the then young Dave and thought he was beautiful. I still do. His voice makes me go weak at the knees.

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Amdone123 · 31/03/2021 20:28

@notacooldad, you're right, actually. He does !

Oh, go on then, Nick !Wink

BathshebaKnickerStickers · 31/03/2021 20:49

John Taylor - Absolutely

WildRosie · 31/03/2021 20:59

My eldest sister, who is nearly sixty (context) had a thing about David Essex during his 1970s heyday. My Mum thought he looked good in his later years. I don't know if he was devastatingly handsome but he had a certain look about him.

worried3012 · 31/03/2021 21:04

Oh also Lenny Kravitz for me and I think I still do

RichardMarxisinnocent · 31/03/2021 23:32

Mel Gibson, no but he was so beautiful 😍
He really was, wasn't he. I've just fallen down a rabbit hole of looking at images of him from his 70s and 80s films. I now want to watch them all again, especially The Bounty.

AlecTrevelyan006 · 31/03/2021 23:37

Clare Grogan
Keren Woodward
Kate Bush

All three still very much yes

ProbablyGryffindor · 31/03/2021 23:49

David Seaman (Arsenal/England goalie). 20 years later............I still find him attractive (I’m now 33).

Latenightreader · 31/03/2021 23:49

David Duchovny - nope
Colin Firth - maybe
Hugh Grant - possibly

I had such a thing for floppy haired Hugh Grant. In Paddington 2 I recognised a few of the photos his character had around the house as postcards I had pinned to my bedroom wall in the mid1990s!

SionnachGlic · 01/04/2021 00:33

@worried3012

OMG...I forgot about Lenny Kravitz, how coukd I have...and def def def yes, yes, yes!!

Netaporter · 01/04/2021 23:14

@worried3012 and @SionnachGlic - Lenny sort of lost his mystique when his trousers split on stage 😳

ScrambledSmegs · 01/04/2021 23:25

Christian Slater - maybe-to-no
Alex James (Blur) - no
Christopher Walken - no, also he might be undead, judging by recent photos

CovidCorvid · 01/04/2021 23:25

Donnie Wahlberg.....still,would.

BlowDryRat · 01/04/2021 23:32

Orlando Bloom (as Legolas, match) - nope

Tobey Maguire as Spiderman - nope. I cried over him once because I'd never actually get to be his wife. I was about 12 Confused

Other than that, I didn't really have any celeb crushes. Boys I actually knew were far more interesting.

janj2301 · 02/04/2021 08:10

James Spader, gorgeous in Star Gate movie, physically not top good In Boston Legal and Black list but his voice and his "presence" I would anytime. As read this thread I keep remembering more

Inthevirtualwaitingroom · 02/04/2021 08:28

Mickey Rourke -erm no
John Travolta no
Jeff Goldblum - sort of

Inthevirtualwaitingroom · 02/04/2021 08:34

also Lewis collins, but Sad dead now

Bordois · 02/04/2021 08:40

Malcolm Jeffries (Just Seventeen model) - yes, 100%.

Wow, blast from the past! 🤣

Tormundsbeard · 02/04/2021 08:47

David Soul - no
Sting - erm maybe
Mickey Rourke - no

Shosha1 · 02/04/2021 09:00

David Essex and definitely yes. In fact think he is more attractive now than then.

IEat · 02/04/2021 09:04

Martine Pellow Wet Wet Wet, still love his voice but he looks so scraggy now

Tomcullenisahero · 02/04/2021 09:19

@Josette77

I can't say who, but I'm now dating my teenage crush and he's way more amazing than I ever would have imagined.
That's so lovely! On my list were Sean Bean- yes Robson Green - yes but more cute than sex appeal now Joshua Jackson-yes Harrison Ford- sadly no Ewan McGregor-yes
FenceSplinters · 02/04/2021 12:08

@Bordois don’t Google Malcolm. Some things are best left as memories.

Strokethefurrywall · 03/04/2021 13:49

Oh I forgot about Billy from Neighbours, Jesse Spencer.

Most definitely still would.

Sparklingbrook · 04/04/2021 08:10

Happy Easter Rob Lowe enthusiasts...

www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9434239/Rob-Lowe-57-rises-dripping-wet-ocean-sizzling-beach-day.html

BlowDryRat · 04/04/2021 15:42

Harrison Ford used to be a no but now I think he's very attractive. He's aged very well.

Rob Lowe wasn't a teenage crush of mine either but he's pretty alright in The West Wing.