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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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ChishiyaBat · 31/01/2025 12:28

InSearchOfMartin · 31/01/2025 10:36

Very good looking but too feminine for my taste to be fanciable I'm afraid.

Honestly he does nothing for me outside of that role.

Awwlookatmybabyspider · 31/01/2025 12:55

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.

Stephen Graham is gorgeous

Idontjetwashthefucker · 31/01/2025 12:59

Adrian Scarborough but only as DI Max Arnold

veraswaistcoat · 31/01/2025 17:22

@KiffyKiffyKiffy nooooooo 😂

Redheadedstepchild · 31/01/2025 17:39

Xenomoth · 31/01/2025 06:41

No, I’ve not seen it and will very much enjoy watching it later-thank you!

It's a bit difficult in places because it has a rather eerie AI generated overdub which uses samples of Lex's and Zelenskyy's real voice to recreate their speech in translation from Russian and Ukrainian to English.

There’s a two or three second delay which messes with your mind if you are watching it on screen (to get the best benefit of Lex's soulful face) and this time it's probably best just listened to.

Also the AI drops a few clangers, like translating what Volodymyr says about corruption as, "If we find these people we will slap them on the wrist." Which Lex has since explained as being very annoyed with himself for not spotting and manually correcting as the original Russian expression is closer to to, "We will smash up their hands," quite a different sentiment entirely.

glassglob · 31/01/2025 19:23

I actually have a real think for Roy Keane, I always have and he is so not my type in many ways as I usually go for the shy nerdy type.

I mean come on!

Embarrassing men you find secretly sexy
Mumtobabyhavoc · 31/01/2025 21:19

Mumtobabyhavoc · 29/01/2025 00:12

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

I should have added that's he's hot, though. So, not embarrassed to drool over him. 😛

shuggles · 31/01/2025 21:27

@Appalonia Jeremy Clarkson and Elon Musk. Maybe because they are both intelligent and make me laugh?

Ah yes, Elon Musk... intelligent... the guy who thought of the idea of a vacuum train (an idea which most people will have thought of at least once in their lives) and failed at that. Then he thought of the idea of building tunnels under cities to get cars from A to B at high speed (which does literally the same job as a motorway). Then there's his electric cars, which he always says are further ahead in development than what they actually are.

Yes, very clever man, not.

ThisFluentBiscuit · 31/01/2025 21:43

InSearchOfMartin · 30/01/2025 09:18

He's an old bloke who's still got it, Chris Dean.

Sooooo still got it.

Snowballsinhell92 · 31/01/2025 22:28

Some of these make me feel a whole lot better about my Claes bang admiration. Elon musk??? Really?? His face always looks like he’s doing a poo

SwedishEdith · 31/01/2025 22:37

Mumtobabyhavoc · 31/01/2025 21:19

I should have added that's he's hot, though. So, not embarrassed to drool over him. 😛

Oh, I had the hots for Andrew Cuomo until, well...

MarkingBad · 31/01/2025 23:26

Snowballsinhell92 · 31/01/2025 22:28

Some of these make me feel a whole lot better about my Claes bang admiration. Elon musk??? Really?? His face always looks like he’s doing a poo

I am never ever going to get that out of my head now😆

Firebird83 · 01/02/2025 00:13

Jürgen Klopp

Firebird83 · 01/02/2025 00:15

Zelenskyy is hot

Macron

Mumtobabyhavoc · 01/02/2025 00:55

You need to watch Dangerous Liaisons for John Malkovich if you find Macron hot. @Firebird83

Bubblyb00b · 01/02/2025 05:08

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 🫣

Noel was my silly celebrity crush when he was in Mighty Boosh. Sooooo cute! He looks a bit severe now

SwizzelsDoubleLollies · 01/02/2025 11:33

Not an embarrassing man but when I watch Life In Pieces I always think Oh, James Brolin you have aged so well.

Lucky Barbara Streisand.

romany4 · 01/02/2025 17:13

Yes to Tommy Lee Jones. Lovely forearms..

Griff Rhys Jones...for years!!

Butteredtoast55 · 01/02/2025 17:18

mumofoneAlonebutokay · 28/01/2025 21:32

Dunno is James martin embarrassing- that's a man with big dick energy

Big dickhead energy for sure.

romany4 · 01/02/2025 17:19

Thought of another..

Eric Cantona..especially when he was a farmer...ooft

Redheadedstepchild · 01/02/2025 17:21

romany4 · 01/02/2025 17:19

Thought of another..

Eric Cantona..especially when he was a farmer...ooft

Ooh, ah, Cantona! What about Zinedine Zidane? Kind of in the same ballpark.

Fawn87 · 01/02/2025 17:22

I used to really fancy Thomas Brodie Sangster since I saw him in the Maze Runner. He's not conventionally hot but when you watch him in action there's something really sexy about him. It's his mannerisms I think. I don't fancy him anymore though, I've got a more conventional crush.

dancerdog · 01/02/2025 17:27

Birthdaycakewithwine · 28/01/2025 22:38

Has anyone ever seen a picture of a young Stalin???
Oh my..

Yes, very handsome!

BeaAndBen · 01/02/2025 17:34

Fawn87 · 01/02/2025 17:22

I used to really fancy Thomas Brodie Sangster since I saw him in the Maze Runner. He's not conventionally hot but when you watch him in action there's something really sexy about him. It's his mannerisms I think. I don't fancy him anymore though, I've got a more conventional crush.

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Oh god, no! I feel very maternal towards Thomas Brodie Sangster - he's a child! (Except no, he's 34, and I am very, very old now).

The wee lad in Nanny McPhee and Love goddamn Actually and Ferb in Phineas and Fern and Jojen Reed in Game of Thrones, and having an ill-advised moustache in The Queen's Gambit...

He, Freddie Highmore and Asa Butterfield are always kids to me, and it's bizarre that they are actual grown up human beings.

Fawn87 · 01/02/2025 18:00

BeaAndBen · 01/02/2025 17:34

Oh god, no! I feel very maternal towards Thomas Brodie Sangster - he's a child! (Except no, he's 34, and I am very, very old now).

The wee lad in Nanny McPhee and Love goddamn Actually and Ferb in Phineas and Fern and Jojen Reed in Game of Thrones, and having an ill-advised moustache in The Queen's Gambit...

He, Freddie Highmore and Asa Butterfield are always kids to me, and it's bizarre that they are actual grown up human beings.

Yeah he does still look very young. I still find him attractive but the crush has died. Asa Butterfield reminds me of my brother in law!

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