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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:
Anotherloverholeinyohead · 10/02/2024 17:13

Morton Harket - not so much now

Maturityisoptional · 10/02/2024 17:13

Nick Rhodes
John Taylor
Corey Haim
River Phoenix
Donnie Wahlberg
Keanu Reeves
Liam Gallagher
David Tennant

teaandtoastwithmarmite · 10/02/2024 17:15

Liam Gallagher big time. Also Graham from blue, Robbie Williams, Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Michael Owen 😂

UnctuousUnicorns · 10/02/2024 17:15

Anotherloverholeinyohead · 10/02/2024 17:13

Morton Harket - not so much now

He looks like he's aged well? 😕

iknowwhymummysporridgewascold · 10/02/2024 17:18

Richard Gere
Brad Pitt
Marti Pellow
Ronan Keating
Eric Stoltz
Harrison Ford
Sean Maguire

HippyChickMama · 10/02/2024 17:22

90s teenager:
Stephen Dorff especially in the video for Cryin' by Aerosmith
Ethan Hawke
Johnny Depp
Keanu
And slightly later teens, Ewan McGregor In Trainspotting

Longlive · 10/02/2024 17:27

Oh yes, David Essex.

SingingSands · 10/02/2024 17:28

Here's my 90s list of pretty boys 😍

Joey McIntyre
Jason Priestley
Luke Perry
Jared Leto
Joshua Jackson
Christian Slater
Keanu Reeves
Paul Rudd
Joshua Jackson
Brad Pitt

LadyMacbethssweetArabianhand · 10/02/2024 17:28

70s teenager here. In no particular order:
David Cassidy
David Essex
Marc Bolan
Donny Osmond
Pete Duel
Alice Cooper
Brian Ferry
David Bowie

embolass · 10/02/2024 17:29

George Michael 😍

bigTillyMint · 10/02/2024 17:41

Per-teen - John Lennon, Rod Stewart and David Essex

Teen - no one majorly, but maybe Ryan ONeill, Mel Gibson, Richard Gere and Marvin Gaye?

UnctuousUnicorns · 10/02/2024 17:43

Oh yes, I was in love with John Travolta after seeing Grease when I was eight!

IcedPurple · 10/02/2024 17:43

John Taylor
Johnny Marr
Morten Harket, actually, all of AHa
Swedish tennis player Stefan Edberg
Rob Lowe

108Anj · 10/02/2024 18:10

Paul Rodgers ('All right now')
Peter Gabriel of Genesis
Bowie

Toomanysquishmallows · 10/02/2024 18:20

Keanu reeves

Giggorata · 10/02/2024 18:21

I'm very old, too.
David McCallum as Illya Kuryakin
John Lennon
Syd Barrett
Jake Thackray

BeaRF75 · 10/02/2024 18:23

Bjorn Borg (still is, to be honest).

ginasevern · 10/02/2024 18:28

Greensleevevssnotnose · 10/02/2024 00:07

Jimmy white the snooker player

I was actually mistaken for his wife at a tournament once. Eat your heart out!

KillingMeDeftIy · 10/02/2024 18:34

Toomanysquishmallows · 10/02/2024 18:20

Keanu reeves

Oh yes!

ProfessorPeppy · 10/02/2024 18:35

As a teen:

Damon Albarn
LL Cool J
Lewis Collins (I was obsessed with old tele)
Various 90s indie boys
Ewan McGregor

Snippit · 10/02/2024 18:48

George Michael, totally surprised when he was outed

Morten Harket, he’s still bloody gorgeous, I wouldn’t kick him out of bed in the morning!

Michael Hutchence, saw him in concert not long before he died. God was he sexy, he oozed it!

JaffaCake70 · 10/02/2024 18:56

Onacuctustree · 10/02/2024 10:02

Neil Tennant.

He's an erudite man.
I learnt a few years later that my love would never be reciprocated.

I still love him.

A bit like me with Limahl. When he came out of the jungle to his 'boy' friend, my hopes of the past 30 odd years were dashed 😫

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Mummadeze · 10/02/2024 18:58

River Phoenix. My sister and I loved him, especially his nose for some reason. I wrote some fan letters to Michael J Fox. Also Christian Slater. When I was a pre-teen I had a crush on the animated fox in Disney’s Robin Hood!

Simonjt · 10/02/2024 19:42

Atreyu from neverending story

JaffaCake70 · 10/02/2024 19:46

UnctuousUnicorns · 10/02/2024 16:19

From personal experience, I can verify that it most definitely is possible. 😘

We were a pretty democratic bunch at school, I think only poor Andy remained unloved.

Edited

Poor Andy.. did anyone actually fancy him? 😬

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