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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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DopeyS · 29/01/2025 07:28

Matt Hancock. If started during lockdown so think it was probably a sort of Stockholm syndrome. Find him attractive but as others have said with politicians feel dirty for it.

Also Stephen Graham. As I'm getting a bit older I prefer an older man. Lee mack too currently.

Twixtmasjigsaw · 29/01/2025 07:32

Martin Freeman

bifurCAT · 29/01/2025 07:32

I wonder how many of these are fancying the character, or fancying the person.

Boris Johnson- man or position?
Monty Don- man or lifestyle?
Atkinson/blackadder- man or slyness

I think half of fantasies are based on the power, influence, fake charisma rather than actual 'if not famous and I passed them in the street' stuff.

It's like how many men would say Daenerys from GoT, but give them 'plain' Emilia Clarke, without the power, clothes, hair (dragons), many probably wouldn't even look twice.

MyDeftDuck · 29/01/2025 07:36

Hugo Spears

Curlyshabtree · 29/01/2025 07:37

Michael Portillo 😳

ProfessionalPirate · 29/01/2025 07:39

How is that embarrassing?! Surely he is one of the most good looking men of all time!

PullTheBricksDown · 29/01/2025 07:40

WandsOut · 28/01/2025 22:45

He's leading man gold and now he's grumpy old wolf gold.
Nothing embarrassing ever about Harrison Ford ever ever.

Yes, this one puzzled me too! Embarrassing??

ScruffMuffin · 29/01/2025 07:40

I can't believe how many people secretly fancy Boris! 🤢 And Trump! 🤮 Now my crush on Obama doesn't seem as embarrassing as it did.

ThatAgileLimeCat · 29/01/2025 07:42

If callous politicians do it for so many of you then how come nobody has mentioned Rik Mayall as Alan B'stard? Odious character but I would.
Same for Malcolm Tucker, although Peter Capaldi doesn't do it for me in anything else.

Outside of fictional characters, Laurence Llewellyn Bowen. I want to love the quiet humble ones but the over the top flamboyance and confidence makes me weak.

Liveandletlive18 · 29/01/2025 07:46

Off the top of my head Michael Mcintyre, Piers Morgan, Bradley Walsh,well you did ask OP 😂There are others but they came to my mind first 😂

theleafandnotthetree · 29/01/2025 07:46

unlikelywitch · 28/01/2025 21:54

Not embarrassing but maybe not an obvious choice - Roy Keane.

Roy is hot and always has been, nothing embarrassing about that at all.

CoubousAndTourmalet · 29/01/2025 07:49

Mmmm, I totally get the Laurence Llewellyn Bowen love... Of all my secret crushes I think that's the one that would irritate my husband the most. He doesn't seem to mind me openly lusting after Robert Plant, Neil Oliver or Patrick Grant, but if he ever found out about my passion for LLB it would be grounds for divorce 😳

Yirk · 29/01/2025 07:50

Larry Lamb,
Mark Rylance,

Noshowlomo · 29/01/2025 07:56

Brian Blessed 🫤

Crackednuts · 29/01/2025 07:57

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.....
😳

Was he sitting on an orange sofa with the top buttons undone. It's in my thread gallery?

Liveandletlive18 · 29/01/2025 07:57

Loloj · 29/01/2025 03:26

Michael Mcintyre

Hands off,he's mine 😂

TheLovelinessOfDemons · 29/01/2025 07:58

IHaveAlwaysLivedintheCastle · 29/01/2025 01:36

Michael Sheen gives me the creeps. He's a good actor but immensely smug and that age gap. I hated that love in he did with David Tennant at the start of lock down.

What's wrong with age gaps when you're talking about adults?

CockSpadget · 29/01/2025 08:02

Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen

Mumof1andacat · 29/01/2025 08:06

Ilovegermany · 28/01/2025 22:11

Harrison Ford.

Look up on Google pictures of a young Harrison Ford....omg!

CactusSammy · 29/01/2025 08:07

Michel Roux Jr.
Colin Firth

And the older I get, the more and more I fancy Hugh Grant. Oh dear ...

Idreamofparis · 29/01/2025 08:08

Just watching Richard Madeley on tv this morning, and got to thinking, mmme he's quite dishy.
Perhaps I should have a coffee! 😂

ChampagneLassie · 29/01/2025 08:09

fluffyblanky · 28/01/2025 21:40

Boris Johnson is weirdly attractive

I had a very erotic dream about Boris when he was in the run up to becoming PM. It made me feel a bit 🤮when I woke.

MrsElijahMikaelson1 · 29/01/2025 08:11

Mamofteenager · 28/01/2025 22:06

Noel fielding but only in bake off with his lovely selection of jumpers - very strange as he is so the reverse of my normal type.

Also Trevor Eve as Detective Boyd in Waking The Dead. Just thinking of his authority makes me feel weak at the knees 🫣

Neither of those are embarrassing

ClaireEclair · 29/01/2025 08:13

Lentilweaver · 28/01/2025 21:27

Mark Rylance.

I wouldn’t say that’s embarrassing. He’s very popular and attractive.

IHaveAlwaysLivedintheCastle · 29/01/2025 08:13

ThisFluentBiscuit · 29/01/2025 06:52

I love this thread; it's made me see how normal I am.

ELON MUSK????
BOJO??
REES-MOGG??

I hope the shame is deep in those posters! 😂 Keep your true selves hidden for eternity, lest you be cast out of your families, jobs, and society to live in the forest. And quite right, too!

Barack Obama, Trevor Noah, and Cillian Murphy for me. Like most people who haven't had their brain scrambled by a bang on the head as an infant. 😱

Going to bed in a warm glow of superiority and judgement now! 😂😂😂

Going to bed in a warm glow of superiority and judgement now!

I don't know why you feel superior as you've completely missed the point.

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