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Who was your teenage crush?

207 replies

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:
Rolypolyfishheads · 06/05/2024 01:03

Madonna
Dervla Kirwan
William Ash

ineedtostopbeingdramaticfirst · 06/05/2024 04:27

Kurt cobain
Damon albarn
Brad Pitt
Jared Leto
Liam Gallagher
Nick Kamen

KatPurrson · 06/05/2024 08:12

Dave Gahan

saltrock123 · 06/05/2024 08:13

Oliver Tobias

Boxofstars · 24/10/2024 23:59

Marti Pellow. Billy Zane.

Boxofstars · 25/10/2024 00:00

Mistymornin · 20/03/2024 12:07

Showing my age!

David Cassidy (RIP)

My late mum loved him. Im just a daydreamer in just another dream.

Boxofstars · 25/10/2024 00:03

tothesea · 06/05/2024 00:58

Nigel Pivaro! I fancied him too!
I forgot about Mark O’Toole from FGTH - I crushed hard on him.

Nigel is a journalist now.

In the early 90s when i was a teen he lived in Ordsall near my aunts.

Boxofstars · 25/10/2024 00:07

Paul Weller really needs to step things up a notch with his hair and skin care.

All the money he must have and he has hair like an old bleached mop why?.

A good facial treatment and moisturizer too.

Boxofstars · 25/10/2024 00:11

RainbowZebraWarrior · 10/02/2024 14:12

Same as me! I mostly liked pretty boys.

I don't get the Oliver Reed thing being sex on a stick. He looked like a nasty fucker to me.

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And a raging alcy too how nice.

Boxofstars · 25/10/2024 00:13

I almost forgot Iain Fletcher from the bill hot Rod.

XenoBitch · 25/10/2024 00:27

Data from Star Trek: TNG

Anisty · 25/10/2024 00:29

Gary Numan. I was obsessed from aged 14 and used to go to bed at 9pm specifically to dream about Gary!!

SomeFinElse · 25/10/2024 00:44

As a v young child:

Timothy Claypole from Rentaghost.
Eddie Grant
Boy George
Bowie as the Goblin King
The Sherrif of Nottingham from RH Prince of Thieves
Richard O’Brian in Crystal Maze
Ade Edmonson in ‘Bottom’
Dirty Den in Eastenders.

As a teen:

Jay Kay from Jamiroquai
Eddie Furlong
Tim Burgess (the Charlatans)
Ian Brown (Stone Roses)
David Bowie
Bobby Gillespie (Primal Scream)
Keanu Reeves
River Phoenix
Kurt Cobain
Brad Pitt in Fight Club
Edward Norton in Fight Club
John Malcovich in Dangerous Liaisons

Swooning just compiling this list 😅

BroccoliHighkicks · 25/10/2024 00:46

Morten Harket. Then he stayed, and did an impromptu gig, at my brother's hotel!

Nutsabouttopic · 25/10/2024 00:47

Bruno from Fame....think it was the soulful eyes

Nat6999 · 25/10/2024 00:54

Paul Weller
Rick Buckler
Bruce Foxton
George Michael
Terry Hall
Paul Usher
Simon O'Brien
Jerome Flynn

PucaBandearg · 25/10/2024 00:54

Matt Goss or Luke Goss .... one of them, I think it was Luke actually 😍

@SomeFinElse I'm pretty sure the Sheriff of Nottingham in RHPoT was Alan Rickman 😢

Nat6999 · 25/10/2024 00:57

BouleDeSuif · 10/02/2024 09:39

Lucy Lawless
Paul Gross (the Mountie in Due South)
David Bowie and Jennifer Connelly in Labyrinth
Uma Thurman
Johnathan Rhys Meyers
Martin Shaw

Still rather like all of them!

I used to go out with someone who was the double of Paul Gross, he still looks like him now 30 years later.

Nat6999 · 25/10/2024 01:02

Boxofstars · 25/10/2024 00:07

Paul Weller really needs to step things up a notch with his hair and skin care.

All the money he must have and he has hair like an old bleached mop why?.

A good facial treatment and moisturizer too.

It's the smoking that has done it, plus having 8 kids to 4 different women, his last kid was born when he was about 60. He is in the new film Blitz that comes out next week, first acting role.

Tittat50 · 25/10/2024 01:06

Patrick Swayze. Just beautiful.

Happyinarcon · 25/10/2024 05:47

UnctuousUnicorns · 10/02/2024 15:42

From age around eleven or twelve:

Nick Rhodes
Paul Weller
Gary Kemp
Billy Mackenzie
Andrew Ridgley
Nick Heyward
Steven Pacey (Tarrant in "Blake's Seven")
Some actor who played a nurse in "Angels", name forgotten (or never known)
Some bloke in "Juliet Bravo", again, forgotten name

Later on

Lloyd Cole
Paul McGann
(Briefly) Cary Elwes in "Another Country"
The prison warden from Yorkshire in "Prisoner: Cell Block H"
Rupert Graves (especially as Alec in "Maurice")

There were probably others that I've forgotten now.

Edited

Tarrant and Avon were both dishy. Blake’s Seven was a great show

LadyGAgain · 25/10/2024 06:48

Gary Barlow
George Michael
Shane Filan
Christian Slater
Andre Agassi
Jason Donovan

abracadabra1980 · 25/10/2024 21:41

Bob Geldof

Ladyof2024 · 25/10/2024 21:51

Marc Bolan.

Boxofstars · 25/10/2024 21:58

tothesea · 06/05/2024 00:53

I love that so many shared my crush on Roger Taylor. I saw an old TOTP the other day and wow he was hot. No wonder he got the old hormones going.

Apart from Rodge

Gary Numan - first time I got all the feels. I’m seeing him live this month have seen him many times and his smile still gets me.
Nick Heyward - obsessed. I saw him live last year and just stared.
Jon Moss - gorgeous.. unfortunately never saw him in real life.
Ralph Macchio - I was bitterly disappointed that none of my teenage boyfriends were as sweet and lovely as Daniel san.

The duran or queen Roger?

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