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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:
Boxofstars · 25/10/2024 22:00

Happyinarcon · 25/10/2024 05:47

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

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Wow Mr Cruickshank from cell block h. I forgot all about him i remember that from my childhood.

Blast from the past indeed.

Boxofstars · 25/10/2024 22:02

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 😅

Eddie Furlong looks so ill nowadays. He had so much and lost it being so silly.

000EverybodyLovesTheSunshine000 · 25/10/2024 22:07

Rob Lowe
George Michael
Morten Harket
Matt Dillon

Thefirstdance · 25/10/2024 22:17

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.

OMG Keanu in Point Break 😍
And Michael Hutchence 💔😭

YakinikuGal · 25/10/2024 22:43

King Charles

LadyLydia · 25/10/2024 22:45

Oliver Tobias!! I was besotted with him. Then David Soul.

Samandytimlucypeterolivia · 25/10/2024 22:55

Ooh I had loads…
gareth gates
Paul cattermole
blazin squad boys
jack Ryder from eastenders
calvin from sclub juniors
Leo di caprio
johnny depp
joshua Jackson (which is even more prominent now)
zac efron
Chad Michael Murray
had a girl crush on Lindsay Lohan too

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