Famous people you used to really fancy but now give you the ick

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Lighthearted obvs…

DD and I have been watching Scrubs and I remember how much I used to have a huge crush on Zach Braff when I was younger. I just googled him and he hasn’t aged well and also now find his character really annoying in Scrubs (and now I really fancy Dr Cox 😂). I did also read that he dated the very gorgeous Florence Pugh so maybe he has hidden depths (although the 17 year age gap I found a bit ick inducing too).

A bit dark but Ian Watkins from Lost Prophets. He was gorgeous then turned out to be the worst degree of sex offender.

Did you see him on celebs go dating? Quite a 'quirky' character.

Robbie Williams

I think he got an autism diagnosis in the last couple of years.

Lee Brennan from 911(90s boy band)
I used to love pretty boy.

I still love Sean.

Mel Gibson, on the other hand....

Russell Brand

The worst of the worst.

And poor Ian 'H' Watkins from Steps who's also Welsh got a tonne of abuse online from people thinking he was the horrific paedophile and not the gay lad with a passion for cheesy choreography.

Joker put me off Joaquin Phoenix. Bloody hate that film!

guys with those small baby faces never tend to age all that well. Same situation as with Mark Owen.

I still love Seeeen Beeeeen. I also think he'd be low maintenance. A few cans, pie and chips and a Sheffield United match on the telly and he'd be quiet all night I reckon 🤣

Dec from Ant n Dec beat the system 🤣

Yes, shudder.

James Franco

James Mcavoy, not sure why. I thought he was gorgeous when he was in Shameless, but he somehow has a seedy air about him now, although I do still rate him as an actor.

Edward Norton was a big crush of mine in the 90s and he's still a handsome man, but he comes across as being completely humourless and that's offputting!

I think that men who are "pretty" and have youthful, boyish good looks (like Mark Owen and Robert Redford) generally age worse than the more "handsome" guys (like Keanu and Paul Newman). But there are always exceptions and plastic surgery can muddy the waters.

@ICriedAllTheWayToTheChipShop did you watch him in Filth?

I was thinking that the other day. I used to think he was lovely, but I think that advert he’s in really put me off. Is it tea or bread, I can’t remember, but it’s so cringy.

The man out of lost prophets for obvious reasons.

Tom Cruise. But that's as much about me ageing and realising that he has some very troubling traits as much as him ageing. Which he hasn't, at least not in the usual sense of the word.

I saw Kevin Spacey in The Iceman Cometh at the Old Vic. He was utterly mesmerising. Don’t feel quite the same about him these days. 🤢

Saw James McAvoy in Cyrano on stage in London about a month before everything shut down 3 years ago. He was mesmerising!!! When he was wooing Roxanne the hairs on the back of my neck stood up and I was on the edge of my seat.

He was so amazing we went back when everything reopened to watch him again. Just as mesmerising!!

I came on to say but they've all been taken so I'll just stick with Johnny Depp.

Was it the scientology videos? When you realised how utterly delusionally enmeshed in a damaging, abusive cult he is?

That's what did it for me. Tom Cruise was an absolute looker for years, and still isn't unattractive looking. But seeing those videos made me back away rapidly.

I've had a thing for Jack O' Connell for a few years now, though he's a bit over a decade younger than me.

I saw him on stage in Cat on a hot tin roof and he was mesmerising. He was also naked for a bit but it wasn't the nakedness that I was impressed with, as flaccid penises aren't all that appealing to be honest. But it was the confidence he had in doing that 'for his art'.

I haven't attempted to watch him in Lady Chatterleys lover on Netflix as apparently it's quite raunchy and I think I'll have a funny turn and get the xxxxx gallops as MNetters would say 😄

Mark Owen
Tom Cruise
Hugh Grant