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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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Burish · 28/01/2025 23:58

Kevin Bridges
Simon Amstell
Jon Richardson

BeaAndBen · 28/01/2025 23:58

Rory Whatsisname as The Hound in Game Of Thrones. Had a rude dream about him and was never quite the same.

There were some devastatingly attractive souls in GoT and The Hound wasn't one, but somehow it worked for me.

Missikat13 · 28/01/2025 23:59

When I was about 16 I had a right thing for Alan Davies as Jonathan Creek... Definitely not who all my teen friends were after!

Burish · 29/01/2025 00:00

Clive Myrie
Dominic Cummings
Will Gompertz
David Baddiel

GreylingsSkin · 29/01/2025 00:00

Alfred Molina 🥵

GreylingsSkin · 29/01/2025 00:00

Missikat13 · 28/01/2025 23:59

When I was about 16 I had a right thing for Alan Davies as Jonathan Creek... Definitely not who all my teen friends were after!

Omg me too, that takes me back…..

Tomatocutwithazigzagedge · 29/01/2025 00:01

LostittoBostik · 28/01/2025 21:55

My answer is Bill Nighy. He's a lot older than my dad, but I absolutely would

I totally would too! He oozes charisma.

Javier Botet and Iggy Pop are my secret lusts.

Starlia · 29/01/2025 00:02

Don’t hate me.

Gordon Ramsay.

shuggles · 29/01/2025 00:05

@Burish Dominic Cummings

What is it? Is it the massive forehead? Is it the pseudo-intellectualism? Is it the callous disregard and lack of compassion for other people?

CrowleyKitten · 29/01/2025 00:06

Wendolino · 28/01/2025 22:47

Rick Stein

nothing wrong with his looks, but one of the times we were in padstow, he was flashing big wads of notes around at the bar. very tacky.

Snead808 · 29/01/2025 00:08

Sugarnspicenallthingsnaice · 28/01/2025 21:44

Robbie Williams.

I know, I know... just for a quick romp though. It'd be preferable if he didn't say anything.

He's not embarrassing!! I love Robbie 😍

WorriedRelative · 29/01/2025 00:08

GustyGertie · 28/01/2025 23:46

Patrick from Sewing Bee

Pp who said Me Barnacles - isn't he blue? Grin

Oh God Patrick is VERY sexy

gettingonfor40 · 29/01/2025 00:08

John Power (Cast, the La's). Not now, but in the '90s.

SusanSHelit · 29/01/2025 00:10

Micheal Sheen. Old enough to be my father and then some but his passion for the things he loves is really very attractive. I get the impression he's genuinely a decent human being too

Mumtobabyhavoc · 29/01/2025 00:12

SwedishEdith · 28/01/2025 23:54

Ha ha, love the way Macron's chest stares you in face in the thread gallery.

PP mentioned CNN John King. Jake Tapper is hot - not embarrassing.

Then add Chris Cuomo to that list. Those arms! 😛

MarkingBad · 29/01/2025 00:12

Adrian Dunbar
Craig Parkinson (perfect body for a good suit)
Macron
Patrick Grant
and many others are not embarrasing crushes.

JRM, Elon Musk and David Cameron definitely are.

I like Greg Davies but I do get the feeling you'd end up being a lesser thought of version of his mother, which is a bit ugh so maybe just a FWB

BeaAndBen · 29/01/2025 00:14

WorriedRelative · 29/01/2025 00:08

Oh God Patrick is VERY sexy

Absolutely!
Nothing embarrassing or weird about fancying Patrick Grant, @GustyGertie - I think there are fewer people who don't fancy him! He's incredibly attractive.

The worryingly high number of people (i.e. above zero) who find Boris Johnson and Rees Mogg attractive, though... is it Care In The Community Day at Tory Party HQ? Has Nadine got a bunch of sock puppets?

SapphireSeptember · 29/01/2025 00:14

Are fictional characters allowed? I've fancied Severus Snape since I was 14 (I'm now 36.) This was before I saw any of the films so was nothing to do with Alan Rickman. 😁 Just how I imagined him in my head.

Sopredictable · 29/01/2025 00:14

Whilst on politicians...Ed Balls, massive secret crush.

Macron is ok if you're under 5ft tall and like men of a similar height.

Ultimate take my breath away (swoon) is Antonio Banderas.

TheNuthatch · 29/01/2025 00:15

George W Bush
He has always done it for me and I don't know why! I watched him at the inauguration and he's still got it lol.

SapphireSeptember · 29/01/2025 00:17

@BeaAndBen Jacob Rees-Moggy looks like my first boyfriend as a grown up, as my first boyfriend was a nob, that gives me the ick.

Wendolino · 29/01/2025 00:17

CrowleyKitten · 29/01/2025 00:06

nothing wrong with his looks, but one of the times we were in padstow, he was flashing big wads of notes around at the bar. very tacky.

Yuk, that's not attractive, is it?

Serendipity12 · 29/01/2025 00:18

I get Patrick from sewing bee and Monty Don but someone mentioned young Stalin and that got me thinking - has anyone checked out the young Hermann Rorschach (ink blot test inventor)? Seriously…….

Blondiney · 29/01/2025 00:21

I had quite the thing for Terry Venebles when I was in my twenties.

camelliaflower · 29/01/2025 00:21

Boris Johnson, Elon as much as I think he's an awful human, and Jools Holland! There's something about him! Grin

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