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Embarrassing men you find secretly sexy

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jenesaispaspourquoi · 28/01/2025 21:27

Who is your embarrassing cringe famous person crush? I'll start with what I suspect is the most embarrassing - Emmanuel Macron. I know he's a total tool and arrogant, and it's cheesy as hell but honestly I just think yes! Even that CRINGE photo of him with his shirt wide open and hairy rug chest on display, remember that? Everyone mocked, I mocked, and yet.....
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Jewelanemone · 28/01/2025 23:15

Dominic Raab.
Ken Stott
Frank Burnside (can't remember the actor's name)

lifeonmars100 · 28/01/2025 23:16

I have gone down a rabbit hole over the young Bob Dylan due to the new film, the dark glasses, the green polka dot shirt, his skinny jeans on his skinny frame and his knowing sneering wit! The original and the Timothy Chalamet incarnation keep popping up on my Instagram feed and my heart skips a beat at both of them

dayswithaY · 28/01/2025 23:16

Ray Winstone, so imposing.

Romesh Ranganathan

Over40Overdating · 28/01/2025 23:16

Strawpollplease · 28/01/2025 22:00

Jacob Rees Mogg. Seriously

😭😭 @Strawpollplease how can we help you? He looks like he shoots dust and turns into a flock of bats when he cums. You can do better 😭

SabrinaThwaite · 28/01/2025 23:17

HeartandSeoul · 28/01/2025 23:13

Mark Heap (not as Jim though 😁!).

He was the same in Green Wing.

Although now I’m thinking about Stephen Mangan and Juluan Rhind-Tutt and thinking that yes, I would.

AInightingale · 28/01/2025 23:17

Has Rishi Sunak been mentioned? I quite liked his nerdiness and slight awkwardness, and those glasses he sometimes wore.

IcedPurple · 28/01/2025 23:17

Jewelanemone · 28/01/2025 23:15

Dominic Raab.
Ken Stott
Frank Burnside (can't remember the actor's name)

Oh yes Dominic Raab!

I briefly became a bit of a laughing stock at work when I admitted to this embarrassing crush.

But that was a few years ago and he's ancient history now.

Thelimitdoesnotexist9 · 28/01/2025 23:18

AInightingale · 28/01/2025 23:17

Has Rishi Sunak been mentioned? I quite liked his nerdiness and slight awkwardness, and those glasses he sometimes wore.

There’s a reason he’s called dishy Rishi!

Florence08 · 28/01/2025 23:18

Sadly, I think Jeremy Hunt has a really lovely voice - like a doctor’s bedside manner.

Have liked Clive Owen quietly for about 30 years 😊

IcedPurple · 28/01/2025 23:18

Thelimitdoesnotexist9 · 28/01/2025 23:18

There’s a reason he’s called dishy Rishi!

He's tiny though, isn't he?

Like really miniature?

jenesaispaspourquoi · 28/01/2025 23:19

A younger Kier Starmer? Great hair! Mark Darcy from Bridget Jones Diary was based on him!

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Teado · 28/01/2025 23:20

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MrsSkylerWhite · 28/01/2025 23:20

Thelimitdoesnotexist9 · Today 23:18

AInightingale · Today 23:17
Has Rishi Sunak been mentioned? I quite liked his nerdiness and slight awkwardness, and those glasses he sometimes wore.
There’s a reason he’s called dishy Rishi!

Is there. Always thought it was a piss-take?

Thelimitdoesnotexist9 · 28/01/2025 23:21

IcedPurple · 28/01/2025 23:18

He's tiny though, isn't he?

Like really miniature?

Haha I have just googled - apparently 5’5! Disappointing.

Greyish2025 · 28/01/2025 23:21

IcedPurple · 28/01/2025 23:18

He's tiny though, isn't he?

Like really miniature?

Good things come in small packages

waltzingparrot · 28/01/2025 23:22

BotterMon · 28/01/2025 22:02

Robert Peston

But he'd wear baggy white Y fronts surely

ToadhillFlax79 · 28/01/2025 23:22

jenesaispaspourquoi · 28/01/2025 23:19

A younger Kier Starmer? Great hair! Mark Darcy from Bridget Jones Diary was based on him!

Was he, though?
(In the voice of Will from Inbetweeners)

myfitbitisfucked · 28/01/2025 23:22

Jewelanemone · 28/01/2025 23:15

Dominic Raab.
Ken Stott
Frank Burnside (can't remember the actor's name)

Ken Stott and Frank Burnside would expose Dominic Raab for being the serial killer that he resembles in a Sunday night drama series. Remarkably eclectic 🤣

Lovesabadboy · 28/01/2025 23:22

Not read the full thread yet, but mine would be Michael Elphick who played Boon in the 1980s.
I made the mistake of telling my DH once and even decades on he still ribs me about it!

I also find Stanley Tucci very attractive but I wouldn't consider him embarrassing!

tobee · 28/01/2025 23:22

CatherineCawoodsbestie · 28/01/2025 22:18

Richard eddington in the 70s/80s.

Michael Sheen with the mad hair and beard and big jumper look.

Robert Carlyle

Do you mean Paul Eddington?

If so yes!! Saw him on stage in the 1980s (I must have been about 15 😬), hadn't given him much thought before, but it was like Wham! Hugely attracted!

If you don't mean Paul Eddington it's just me then!! 😬😳

Bramble25 · 28/01/2025 23:23

Pigeonqueen · 28/01/2025 21:57

Martin Clunes 🙈😂

Agreed

JudgeJ · 28/01/2025 23:24

Torres10 · 28/01/2025 22:08

Douglas Henshall in anything 😳

Totally agree, he should have been Declan in Rivals, they could have got round his Scottishness to make him Irish, I 'saw' him all the time I was reading the book!

Mumzoo5070 · 28/01/2025 23:24

Beck

GlitchStitch · 28/01/2025 23:25

Michael Portillo
Michel Roux Jr.
This one is bad but watched an OJ Simpson doc recently and young OJ was bloody gorgeous 😳

Finetoday · 28/01/2025 23:25

Showing my age but John McCardle AKA Billy Corkhill from Brookside !

Just watched him in Midsummer Murders and I came over all funny again 😁

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