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Who was your teenage crush?

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JaffaCake70 · 09/02/2024 23:26

Tell me which famous person/people you had a crush on as a teenager.

I'm a teenager of the 80s, mine were:

Limahl
Nick Rhodes
Nick Heyward
Terry Hall
David Sylvian
Green Gartside
Paul Heaton
Paul Weller
C Thomas Howell

OP posts:
PutItInTheFuckitBucketAndGetOnWithYourDay · 10/02/2024 00:00

Daley Thompson
❤️

EmiliaRuusuvuori · 10/02/2024 00:02

Paul Stanley
Billy Idol
David Coverdale
Joe Elliott and Rick Savage from Def Leppard
Jon Bon Jovi

MaynardGMuskyvote · 10/02/2024 00:04

late 80s: Michael J Fox and Corey Haim 😍

Greensleevevssnotnose · 10/02/2024 00:07

Jimmy white the snooker player

2chocolateoranges · 10/02/2024 00:09

Ally mccoist
patrick swayze
howard donald

Multipleexclamationmarks · 10/02/2024 00:10

Yes to Limahl. Also
Adam Ant
Paul Young
Michael Hutchence
Rick Astley
John Bon Jovi
Neil from the young ones
Howard Jones
Nick Kershaw
Bill from the 5th year at school 🤣

BasiliskStare · 10/02/2024 00:10

I am old . David Essex

GressaYork · 10/02/2024 00:12

Oliver Reed 🤪. I’m only 43 now he was loads older, was proper embarrassing 😳

eddiemairswife · 10/02/2024 00:16

Johnny Ray

LostInPoetry · 10/02/2024 00:18

Jason Priestly, Luke Perry and Jon Bon Jovi and Axl Rose.

Wanttobeok · 10/02/2024 00:22

Grant Mitchell

commonground · 10/02/2024 00:22

I don't actually believe you were a teenager in the 80s, OP. For if you were, you would know that it is a biological impossibility to have a crush on Nick Rhodes over John Taylor. It's just a thing that Did Not Happen.

SinisterBumFacedCat · 10/02/2024 00:23

Simon Hinkler from the Mission
Michael Palin

Mushroomwithaview · 10/02/2024 00:28

Keanu Reeves 💘I was going to marry him. I probably still would, tbh.

I also had posters up of Johnny Depp, Jared Leto, River Phoenix, Evan Dando ... I loved a pretty boy with long hair.

And, of course, the entire cast of Young Guns II.

JaffaCake70 · 10/02/2024 00:41

commonground · 10/02/2024 00:22

I don't actually believe you were a teenager in the 80s, OP. For if you were, you would know that it is a biological impossibility to have a crush on Nick Rhodes over John Taylor. It's just a thing that Did Not Happen.

You're not the first to say it 🤣

OP posts:
BigBarm · 10/02/2024 00:43

JaffaCake70 · 09/02/2024 23:58

Roddy 😍😍😍 where is he now???

He was touring about 5-6 years ago but I was on holiday so missed it. Don’t think he’s toured since? (still have a crush 40 years on! 😆)

OShoey · 10/02/2024 00:49

I'm also an 80s teenager but mine was Paul Newman. There has never been a more perfect man.

Aria999 · 10/02/2024 01:13

Denzil Washington
Young Harrison ford
Hector of Troy
Jesus (not religious) 🤣

Isanyonereallyanonymous · 10/02/2024 01:26

Phillip Olivier, think he was in Brookside. I never watched Brookside so I have no idea how I became I’m aware of his existence but oh yes please! 🫣
slightly older in my early twenties and I discovered Nikki Sixx, several years on and that crush is still real 😂

Geppili · 10/02/2024 01:29

Adam Ant
Bowie

sprigatito · 10/02/2024 01:37

I used to carry a picture of Ralph Macchio around in my pocket Blush

Also: Emilio Estefez, Marti Pellow, Leonardo DiCaprio (v young version!), Axl Rose.

JustWonderingIfImNormal · 10/02/2024 01:41

Jordan Knight NKOTB
Jason Donovan
Mark Owen
Declan Donnelly

Februaryfeels · 10/02/2024 08:11

Nick Hayward was my very first crush. The first time I ever got the felling of fancying someone

I'm still waiting for Roddy Frame and I to get together. I was convinced it was only a matter of time.

RenoDakota · 10/02/2024 08:52

Pete Duel
Jim Dale
Denis Lawson
Bryan Brown
Russell Mael

RenoDakota · 10/02/2024 08:55

RenoDakota · 10/02/2024 08:52

Pete Duel
Jim Dale
Denis Lawson
Bryan Brown
Russell Mael

Just re-read the OP. Denis Lawson and Bryan Brown came in my 20s, not teens.

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