Celeb crushes from before your time

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Random, I know.

Anyone else just fancy the arse off celebrities but from years ago or even before you were born?

I have such a thing for Roland Orzabal of Tears for Fears, but only in their early 80's era, specifically in the "Head Over Heels" video which would have been released when I was about two.

Also George Peppard circa 1960's and David Cassidy in the 70's (might have read too many of my mums vintage Jackie annuals in my teens.)

I'm hoping it isn't just me!

@KeflavikAirport

Young Schubert was also a massive hottie 😍

Please see also young Gustav Mahler!

A young Peter O’Toole, Prince Rupert and Che Guevara

[quote KillingMeDeftly]@yummytum yes, young Ralph was gorgeous. Not sure I can count him as before my time though![/quote]

I'm 22 so he's more than twice my age

Lance Henrikson
Now 81

You willl remember him as Bishop from "Aliens" (the synthetic)

But as Emil Fouchon in "Hard Target" woahhhh

So many! Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, Pushkin, Paul Newman, Olivier, Brando, the list goes on! 😍😍🥰

Michael Wilding when he was in Spring in Park Lane as a Duke undercover as a butler trying to clear his name.

Pacino but only in The Godfather, before he got scruffy and eccentric.

Richard Gere in Pretty Woman

Barry Manilow in the 80's when he sang passionate songs at the Royal
Albert Hall.

Jimi Hendrix, Phil Lynott, Marc Bolan, all gorgeous and talented ♥
I have a real thing about Clint Eastwood when he was younger too.

Michael Nesmith

I preferred Micky Dolenz. Them capering around on our TV screens every summer holiday kept them forever young. But in fact when I watched it they must have been knocking forty.

I always thought Richard Beckinsale was beyond gorgeous but when he was in Porridge and Rising Damp I was at primary school. When I watched the reruns he’d been dead some years already 😢

I had a bit of a niche crush as a teenager on Lindsey Buckingham. Everyone else was mad about Jason Donovan or the Bros brothers but I liked to be different 😂 He’s only about 20 years older than me and his wife has just left him, so there’s still a chance 😂

James Coburn. I had a tiny picture cut out from a newspaper and stuck in my diary so I could kiss it every day. I was 11 he would have been 52

Did someone say The Monkees were "knocking forty" when they were on television?! The series ended when they were all in their twenties, although endless repeats were shown.

I had a Paul Newman poster as a kid that a much older cousin had given me. He was seriously hot!

Oops, sorry, just realised poster meant the Monkees were 40 in real life as she watched the old series! I am losing it, must be the Saturday night wine....

Robert Hardy as Siegfried in all Creatures Great & Small . I'm 31.

Peter O'Toole. Stunning.

@kierenthecommunity

Michael Nesmith

I preferred Micky Dolenz. Them capering around on our TV screens every summer holiday kept them forever young. But in fact when I watched it they must have been knocking forty.

I always thought Richard Beckinsale was beyond gorgeous but when he was in Porridge and Rising Damp I was at primary school. When I watched the reruns he’d been dead some years already 😢

I had a bit of a niche crush as a teenager on Lindsey Buckingham. Everyone else was mad about Jason Donovan or the Bros brothers but I liked to be different 😂 He’s only about 20 years older than me and his wife has just left him, so there’s still a chance 😂

I love Richard Beckinsale too

I didn't quite understand that David Niven was so much older .
Young Clint Eastwood, and Gregory Peck, Clark Gable, Paul Newman of course.

But I also had a huge crush on Dustin Hoffman that I don't understand now. I think they must have showed all his films and I just got a teen-girl-fixation-doesn't-have-to-be-anyone-attractive thing

Those eyes!

Totally get Lindsey Buckingham too.

Went to see Carousel whenI was about ten, and sobbed when Gordon McCrae died! Loved him so much after that.

Oooh yes to Lindsay Buckingham. Yum.

My mum used to have a thing for the guy who played Ginger in the tv version of Biggles!

Yes! Gustave Mahler! Very attractive.

Oh so many! Particularly ballet dancers / actors from the 1930s-1950s:
Hugh Laing, John Gilpin, Antony Perkins, Ramon Novarro, Tab Hunter, Dirk Bogarde...

I was born in the 70s!

The guy from a-ha!!

I was a teenager in the 80s, so Morten Harket in A-ha and Michael Praed in Robin of Sherwood, not so before my time.

Richard O'Sullivan as Dick Turpin, I'd forgotten. I was definitely a child then.

@IAmLiamNeeson, Adam ant is still HOT !
I agree with so many post , Paul Newman , Clint Eastwood, Steve Mcqueen in Le Mans , Tom Cruise in Days Of Thunder ( apparantly I like a grease monkey )
And Billy Idol , to be fair considering his drug and drink fuled life and age now he is still a fine looking guy !

Oh Billy Idol in the shower scene for "Catch my Fall" is just perfection.
And now I've forgotten what I actually came on to say😂

@inigomontoyahwillcox Peter O'Toole is one of two actors who I think looked best with a cigarette dangling from their lips. And I'm not a fan of smoking! The other is Jean-Paul Belmondo.