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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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fudgecat · 28/01/2025 22:17

DrRedT · 28/01/2025 22:07

Chris Whitty, so much so I have a 6 foot cardboard cutout

Picture needed 😁

JohnPrescottsPyjamas · 28/01/2025 22:17

Karmaisagod · 28/01/2025 22:14

Yep. I get it. I don't fantasise about him, but I have a sense that if he came on to me, I'd not be able to turn him down. There's just something about him - a kind of utterly shameless confidence, a glint in the eye? I'd feel dirty afterwards, though. I find this very troubling.

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BJ clearly has a certain something as he’s managed to father quite a few children with different women!
There IS something endearing about his bumbling persona. Sorry!

happinessischocolate · 28/01/2025 22:18

crackadawn · 28/01/2025 22:13

Paul Kaye too

Brain cox 100% - don't think that's an embarrassing one

I used to love Paul Kaye but then his character in afterlife totally put me off him

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

Pashpash24 · 28/01/2025 22:18

Gordon Ramsay and Jeremy Clarkson 🙈

MayaPinion · 28/01/2025 22:18

fluffyblanky · 28/01/2025 21:40

Boris Johnson is weirdly attractive

He’s still not going to shag you, Nads.

Fgfgfg · 28/01/2025 22:18

JanglingJack · 28/01/2025 22:04

Ken Stott

It started years ago in The Vice, and now it's the voice and the grumpiness, and the nose... Take me Ken!

I'm not Barnie. Barnie 🤣 Barbie.

Rebus. But then I saw the real him do an interview and I thought pretentious twat. So disappointed.

Ontobetterthings · 28/01/2025 22:18

I'm too embarrassed to admit to anyone in real life but Elon Musk 🙈

Wineandrun · 28/01/2025 22:19

Maria1982 · 28/01/2025 22:07

Just looked him up - 🥵

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I’m completely in love with James Martin. He makes me go quite wobbly.

TangyLemonCandy · 28/01/2025 22:19

weaselwords · 28/01/2025 21:55

Vessel from Sleep Token. I don’t know what is wrong with me.

I also get Mark Rylance but it may be a Cromwell thing. Or capes. I seem to like capes.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with you, he has one of the sexiest voices ever and then the masked man thing, eugh 🙃

I have a colleague who is the absolute spitting image of a young Harrison Ford, very easy on the eye.

DarkHollowTree · 28/01/2025 22:19

Heston Blumenthal.

BatchCookBabe · 28/01/2025 22:20

MayaPinion · 28/01/2025 22:18

He’s still not going to shag you, Nads.

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Don't bet on it. Bozza likes to put it about! 😂

HeartandSeoul · 28/01/2025 22:20

Gossipygossip · 28/01/2025 22:17

Domhnall Gleason

Oh yes, I forgot about Domhnall!

VictoriaEra2 · 28/01/2025 22:20

the80sweregreat · 28/01/2025 21:59

Steve Carell as Michael Scott!
Lovely eyes

Oh yes!!!!

Hwi · 28/01/2025 22:21

Mannie? You gaydar broke or something?

MrsSkylerWhite · 28/01/2025 22:21

This thread is weird!

Most people mentioned aren’t embarrassing at all! Lots of them are gorgeous! Who the hell would say no to Cromwell or Gene Hunt?!

(Apart from, again, Rees Mogg: psychiatric help needed).

mumofoneAlonebutokay · 28/01/2025 22:21

Maria1982 · 28/01/2025 22:07

Just looked him up - 🥵

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🤭🤭🤭 he wouldn't even have to try tbh 😄

MyOpulentDuck · 28/01/2025 22:21

JanglingJack · 28/01/2025 22:04

Ken Stott

It started years ago in The Vice, and now it's the voice and the grumpiness, and the nose... Take me Ken!

I'm not Barnie. Barnie 🤣 Barbie.

Ahhhh same! It was watching the BBC show Messiah as an impression able teen that did it for me 😆 also Rebus
I think it’s the police detective thing because I can also add Trevor Eve, Idris Elba and Stephen Tompkinson to that list but only in their detective roles 😆

HeartandSeoul · 28/01/2025 22:21

Ooh, and another one is Prof. Brian Cox!

macaroonsandgin · 28/01/2025 22:21

Peter Capaldi? Anyone?

MunsteadWood · 28/01/2025 22:22

Marcus Wareing! Although I don’t feel remotely embarrassed about it 😄

JohnPrescottsPyjamas · 28/01/2025 22:22

I’ve just thought of another one. Tom Baker in his Dr Who era. It’s the voice.

MyOpulentDuck · 28/01/2025 22:23

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 🫣

Yesss Trevor Eve but only as Boyd! See my post above about the police detective thing 😆

Lentilweaver · 28/01/2025 22:23

MrsSkylerWhite · 28/01/2025 22:21

This thread is weird!

Most people mentioned aren’t embarrassing at all! Lots of them are gorgeous! Who the hell would say no to Cromwell or Gene Hunt?!

(Apart from, again, Rees Mogg: psychiatric help needed).

You are right. Sorry. I just can't think.of truly embarassing men I find sexy.

JohnPrescottsPyjamas · 28/01/2025 22:23

MunsteadWood · 28/01/2025 22:22

Marcus Wareing! Although I don’t feel remotely embarrassed about it 😄

Now, MW has got the most gorgeous eyes!

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