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Can anyone outweird my secret crush?!

237 replies

SweetFamilyAddams · 16/05/2025 18:17

I have developed an inexplicable crush on Uncle Fester.
I've had a few odd crushes over the years but this one is by far the oddest.
Does anyone else get weird crushes for absolutely no good reason?

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StMarie4me · 16/05/2025 20:54

MrsSkylerWhite · 16/05/2025 20:15

Inspector Morse. Miserable git though he was.

Oh god yes. Definitely!

thenightsky · 16/05/2025 20:59

WitcheryDivine · 16/05/2025 19:21

I’ll never forget someone on MN saying about 15 years ago he looks like the sort of guy who badmouths feminism but at home his wife does unspeakable things to him with a glove on

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Oh I love this. Proper laughed out loud. I'd forgotten Dom and his strange, macho, hard man sex appeal.

Karatema · 16/05/2025 21:01

MoistVonL · 16/05/2025 20:51

One is The Idea Of You - Anne Hathaway ends up in a fling with a knitwear-clad British boy band member.

I’m not sure which the other is, but A Family Affair is an older woman (Nicole Kidman) having a thing with the fading star (Zac Efron) her daughter works for. So maybe that’s what he meant (he’s out at the moment)

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The Idea of You - Oh yes! I’m old enough to be his mother but that man is lush!

MoistVonL · 16/05/2025 21:07

Roger Allan’s voice could drop my knickers in a heartbeat. Particularly as Douglas in Cabin Pressure.

Alan Rickman’s voice was to die for. So many people have superb voice. Kathleen Turner to turn a straight woman.

romany4 · 16/05/2025 21:13

PennyWhistleSweet · 16/05/2025 18:41

OMG, I was going to say Robert Carlyle but yours!!

Also agree that Peter Dinkledge is.lush. I dated a guy with achondroplasia in my twenties who looked a bit like him.

Robert Carlyle has always been hot!

ByCalmLimeHiker · 16/05/2025 21:14

MoistVonL · 16/05/2025 21:07

Roger Allan’s voice could drop my knickers in a heartbeat. Particularly as Douglas in Cabin Pressure.

Alan Rickman’s voice was to die for. So many people have superb voice. Kathleen Turner to turn a straight woman.

I love Cabin Pressure, I listen to it at least once a year. Have you also listened to Conversations from a long marriage with him and Joanna Lumley?

romany4 · 16/05/2025 21:17

PuppiesProzacProsecco · 16/05/2025 19:54

I thought my crush on Dennis Waterman was bad 🙈

I met him in the 80s when j was a teenager
He was very nice!

Calliopespa · 16/05/2025 21:18

BlindMedusa · 16/05/2025 20:00

No judgement here! As mine are ...
Kermit the Frog
Johnny Bravo
Yes Robin Hood fox too but I think for a cartoon fox its been established that that crush is normal 🤣

Kermit the FROG!!?

Actually … you’re right … there is something.

Calliopespa · 16/05/2025 21:21

ByCalmLimeHiker · 16/05/2025 20:31

Oh for sure. I am not attracted to them exactly, but I hold Monty Don, Bill Nighy, Roger Allam and others in high regard because of their voices. I could listen to some of them talk all day.

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Yes I like listening to Monty Don. Also I have noticed his hands … Anyway, I digress from what I meant to say which is perhaps the voice is what explains the otherwise inexplicable crushes many MNers have on Bill Nighy.

Janie1962 · 16/05/2025 21:28

The cartoon BFG! He has a kind face, and a lovely accent 😊 Do you think I should get out more? 😆

Calliopespa · 16/05/2025 21:28

Calliopespa · 16/05/2025 21:18

Kermit the FROG!!?

Actually … you’re right … there is something.

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Kermit Dancing GIF

Actually scrap that.

It’s too mortifying to think that DH probably has some sizzling my hot celebrity crush while I’m agreeing with you about the sex appeal of Kermit the Frog.

Though he does look great for 70 . His side view is the best.

ALittleBitWooo · 16/05/2025 21:32

I don’t know anyone else that fancies Bob Geldof like I do so thought I had a weird crush, but you win!

TulipTuesday · 16/05/2025 21:35

HardbackPaperback · 16/05/2025 19:28

Oh, I have a giant crush on Philip Mould, her comply dapper co-presenter in Fake or Fortune. I see the Fiona crush, though. She has a sort of crisp, head-girlish appeal…

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Back off, he’s mine!

GasperyJacquesRoberts · 16/05/2025 21:41

MoistVonL · 16/05/2025 21:07

Roger Allan’s voice could drop my knickers in a heartbeat. Particularly as Douglas in Cabin Pressure.

Alan Rickman’s voice was to die for. So many people have superb voice. Kathleen Turner to turn a straight woman.

Ooh, Kathleen Turner 😍

Calliopespa · 16/05/2025 21:42

ALittleBitWooo · 16/05/2025 21:32

I don’t know anyone else that fancies Bob Geldof like I do so thought I had a weird crush, but you win!

Oh me actually!! Quite a lot - and even when I was quite young ( and he was still old).

You guys are tapping the wellspring of my inner fantasises. I normally have to shrug through these threads .

SwedishEdith · 16/05/2025 21:45

ALittleBitWooo · 16/05/2025 21:32

I don’t know anyone else that fancies Bob Geldof like I do so thought I had a weird crush, but you win!

I've always loved Bob.

Helpmechooseausername · 16/05/2025 21:58

I thought Wolf in the masked singer was gorgeously sexy. When he 'took it off' and revealed himself to be Marti Pellow I nearly fainted because I fancied Marti for most of my teenage years!!

SisSuffragette · 16/05/2025 22:03

I once had a sex dream about voldemort if that helps?

Calliopespa · 16/05/2025 22:05

SwedishEdith · 16/05/2025 21:45

I've always loved Bob.

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Agree. I’m going to venture that he isn’t too weird a crush.

CountryMouse22 · 16/05/2025 22:06

MrsSkylerWhite · 16/05/2025 20:15

Inspector Morse. Miserable git though he was.

I prefer him in The Sweeney. That ages me....!

GasperyJacquesRoberts · 16/05/2025 22:12

SwedishEdith · 16/05/2025 21:45

I've always loved Bob.

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He always looks like he needs a really good scrub

MaryGreenhill · 16/05/2025 22:13

LittleBitofBread · 16/05/2025 18:20

I was all set to confess my crush on Peter Dinklage, but you've definitely beat that!

There is just something about him .

TasWair · 16/05/2025 22:14

I can't believe none of you have said Gru yet. He is hot.

ZiggyZowie · 16/05/2025 22:14

McKenzie Crook

💞💞

CountryMouse22 · 16/05/2025 22:15

Who is Gru?