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Who did your Mum have a crush on in the 80s or 90s?

200 replies

Snooks1971 · 13/12/2024 22:07

It was never like phwoarrr obvious, but looking back she definitely had a thing for Daley Thompson and Paul Nicholas (Just Good Friends).
Good taste Mum!

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BestIsWest · 13/12/2024 22:39

My mother - Val Doonican.
Me - Andrew McCarthy, Harrison Ford and Paul Weller.

tinydynamine · 13/12/2024 22:40

Jimmy Nail

Tiswa · 13/12/2024 22:40

My mum loved Paul Nicholas Ian McShane (Lovejoy) Kevin Costner and Val Kilmer

my Nan loved Tommy Lee Jones as her younger man!

goingtohellinahandcart · 13/12/2024 22:40

Richard Chamberlain, Robert Redford(can see why myself) Steve McQueen, Paul Newman

Remember a conversation with dmil and agreed on many of the same actors(mind you dh looks very like his df😁)

Snooks1971 · 13/12/2024 22:40

ClarityClankrantt · 13/12/2024 22:36

Oh, and Joey from Bread.

Yes I fancied Joey too. And Carl from Brush Strokes. I think I’m too old for my own thread

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WaitingforStrike · 13/12/2024 22:40

ThePoshUns · 13/12/2024 22:38

Yes my mum too. Was it Children of the Thorns or something like that?

The Thorn Birds

GrannyAchingsShepherdsHut · 13/12/2024 22:43

Bruce Springsteen and Mel Gibson.

I thought WTAF about Mel, then I saw Mad Max and it all made sense! 😂

dentress2000 · 13/12/2024 22:44

Marti Pellow

WellIthinkyouareallIdiots · 13/12/2024 22:44

tinydynamine · 13/12/2024 22:40

Jimmy Nail

When I was maybe 10 ? I think can’t remember exactly I had a horrific nightmare about him chasing me with a load of crocodiles it was terrifying !!

KnopkaPixie · 13/12/2024 22:44

Robert Redford (very young) and then Morten Harkett of A-ha. She has a thing for blonds. Although she would have taken anybody in A-ha. "The drummer always looks very unassuming."

In later life, she's gone in for Daniel Craig. Anybody, as long as he's blond.

Sunblessed · 13/12/2024 22:45

Shakin Stevens

dentress2000 · 13/12/2024 22:45

FuckItItsFine · 13/12/2024 22:27

So many of my mum’s faves are listed here 😂

I have to add Colin Firth as Mr Darcy and Robert Carlyle as Hamish McBeth.

This too- just made me smile

Lovehearts82 · 13/12/2024 22:46

Patrick Swayze, she was very happy when she got a calendar of his for Christmas 😆

DrCoconut · 13/12/2024 22:49

That sort of thing wasn't talked about in our house but my friend's mum had a big crush on Jeremy Irons.

DrCoconut · 13/12/2024 22:50

WellIthinkyouareallIdiots · 13/12/2024 22:44

When I was maybe 10 ? I think can’t remember exactly I had a horrific nightmare about him chasing me with a load of crocodiles it was terrifying !!

Had you been watching crocodile shoes?

ladygindiva · 13/12/2024 22:51

Bruce Springsteen.

Sunblessed · 13/12/2024 22:51

DrCoconut · 13/12/2024 22:50

Had you been watching crocodile shoes?

That song will be in my head the rest of the night now!

AsTim3GoesBy · 13/12/2024 22:51

My mum rather pre-dates the question (as indeed do I!).
Mum didn't have any crushes in that era, as far as I am aware. The only crush I know about is Glen Miller, whose music she enjoyed during the war. She was very upset when his plane went missing.

Humphreyshead · 13/12/2024 22:52

Michael j fox and david cassidy

Alpolonia · 13/12/2024 22:52

Charles Dance and Robert Redford.

Great thread OP!

EnolaAlone · 13/12/2024 22:53

Michael Bolton!

QueSyrahSyrah · 13/12/2024 22:54

Donny Osmond, David Essex & Philip Schofield 😬😬😬

QueSyrahSyrah · 13/12/2024 22:55

Oh and Tom Selleck, which is the only one I've grown up to think was legit 😂

Fuzzyandwarm · 13/12/2024 22:56

My mum has never once uttered a word to me about being attracted to anyone.

I was a teen in the 90s and liked Leo DiCaprio (rather disgusted by him now dating such young girls)

WellIthinkyouareallIdiots · 13/12/2024 22:56

DrCoconut · 13/12/2024 22:50

Had you been watching crocodile shoes?

i must have done ? Or had heard of it?or maybe I saw an ad for it !! I’m not sure as I don’t recall watching an actual programme with him in but somehow it became a terrifying nightmare to do with crocodiles 😂

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