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

[Snooks1971]

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!

Lovejoy and Sean Bean.

Cliff Thorburn (snooker player)

more seventies than later, but it was pretty much an open secret in our house that had either Clark Gable or Mario Lanza showed up outside in a sports car she would have been off without so much as a backward glance.

Cat Stevens, Phil Collins, Colin Firth.

Then when I starting looking Boybands as a teenager I remember her fancying all of Blue 😅

Yes, it's a great thread! I think my mum quite liked Charles Dance but he veered to closely into ginger territory to satisfy her blond fetish. She quite likes Jason Statham these days because, "You can tell that he was blond before he went bald." and she's quite recently converted to the ideal of the more muscular man whereas she preferred the more effete sorts when she was younger.

I think it's the idea of somebody being able to change a lightbulb without dislocating a limp wrist which hits hard in later years.

Richard Gere

Brad Pitt. We used to go and see his latest films together (and rewatch the old ones on video!)!

Ian McShane and Tom Selleck. 'Dishy'/'a bit of a dish' was also her descriptor of choice.

Nothing to do with this, I presume. My auntie was a quivering jelly on the floor.

My mum also used "dishy". It's a good one.

Robert Redford and Clint Eastwood. Both ‘dishy’!

@KnopkaPixie yes! And a scene in the same film where he's revving his motorbike suggestively.

Sam Elliott for my mum.

My mum liked David Hasselhoff. She would have watched him in knightrider.

Julio Iglesias, Tony Orlando and Angry Anderson. 😆

I love this! My mum watched The Thorn Birds a lot.

Tom Selleck

I can’t believe nobody else has said George Clooney yet! My mum loved him in ER. Also Colin Firth and either Robson or Jerome when they were in soldier soldier.

I was in my 20s in the 80s & as far as I know my mother didn't show any crushes. I had many but remember David Essex & David Cassidy were amongst them

So did mine!!! We used to live in Faversham and got invited to a few of Peaches’ birthday parties. Mum always said he was “dishy” 😂😂

My mum (born 1932) had a thing for Nigel Havers in the 1980s, all fresh faced and aristocratic in A Horseman Riding By.
I last saw him as a decrepit victim of elder abuse in The Gentlemen.
Time marches on…

And this is when I know I'm old.....My 'mother' ahem liked Colin salmon, Rufus Sewell and Keifer Sutherland...

My 88 year old mum's crush was Steve McQueen of The Great Escape fame. She liked Robert Redford too.

This thread is making me feel very old as I've had crushes on one or two of those mentioned myself

David Essex
David Cassidy
George Michael
Rod Stewart.
Nial Rodgers

DHs mum memorably said that Dwayne Johnson has nice teeth. This was 20 years ago, looking back, massive The Rock crush