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To feel a bit sick when looking at certain celebs?

527 replies

EllyRoff · 14/08/2025 06:48

I have a weird thing where certain people make me feel physically sick/Uneasy. It’s mainly celebrities or people in the public eye.

One example is Jeremy Corbyn. Nothing to do with his politics - it’s something about him.

My latest one is Danny Dyer - especially with a moustache.

Anyone else get this?

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Itiswhysofew · 15/08/2025 09:32

Vicky McClure. I can't work out why though.

itwascousinhalifax · 15/08/2025 10:34

Britney Spears
Elton John
Trump
Jeremy Clarkson
Elon Musk
JD Vance
The lip filler/tattooed eyebrows/botox brigade unnerve me as I just get a clone vibe from them.

GameOfJones · 15/08/2025 10:44

B1anche · 14/08/2025 19:22

😂God I feel this way about my own face (minus the goatee (sometimes)).

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I'm sure your occasional goatee is lovely! 🤣❤️

Bryantpark · 15/08/2025 11:09

HeadDeskHeadDesk · 15/08/2025 08:41

Not Sandi and Clare, my fantasy best friends, surely? Cuddly lesbians who belong in the same gang as Sue Perkins, who straight women love and want to be mates with, because they seem like such good eggs. Surely not? 😫

Glad to hear from someone else that Sandi is sound.

Nah, Sandi fucked women over with her short lived political party. She is not a friend to women.

heartsinvisiblefury · 15/08/2025 12:58

Nicholas Cage

heartsinvisiblefury · 15/08/2025 13:00

The sports presenter on BBC breakfast

SuperShinyToothWoman · 15/08/2025 13:20

heartsinvisiblefury · 15/08/2025 13:00

The sports presenter on BBC breakfast

He is a tiny man! And slightly rubbery. Met him a few years ago.

He doesn't make me feel sick, but I can see why he might.

CoffeeCantata · 15/08/2025 13:49

Pricelessadvice · 14/08/2025 06:49

Elton John has this effect on me. I physically recoil when I see a picture of him and I’m not sure why.

I feel awful for saying this but, I agree. I couldn’t enjoy a meal, say, if EJ was sitting opposite me.

A very gifted musician- that’s not in doubt - but he’s always been the antithesis of what I find attractive. Thick-set, blunt, not fine features, snub nose, fat (but very clever!fingers.

I’m not proud to say these things - he can’t help it. But I prefer to hear his music while NOT seeing him.

Charabanc · 15/08/2025 14:04

HeadDeskHeadDesk · 15/08/2025 08:41

Not Sandi and Clare, my fantasy best friends, surely? Cuddly lesbians who belong in the same gang as Sue Perkins, who straight women love and want to be mates with, because they seem like such good eggs. Surely not? 😫

Glad to hear from someone else that Sandi is sound.

Sandi is most definitely not sound. And she's no friend to actual women.

AmIthatSpringy · 15/08/2025 14:23

Rafa Nadal
i find him repulsive , so much so that I couldn't bear to watch his matches.

CoffeeCantata · 15/08/2025 14:26

Itiswhysofew · 15/08/2025 09:32

Vicky McClure. I can't work out why though.

I agree. If she turned out to be a highly sophisticated android I wouldn’t be surprised.

Mrsbloggz · 15/08/2025 14:37

For me it's trump and vance, can't bear to look at them listen to them or even read the words that they have spoken.

HelenaWaiting · 15/08/2025 14:47

Richard Tice. Like I think he's got people chained up in the cellar.

Pricelessadvice · 15/08/2025 15:41

CoffeeCantata · 15/08/2025 13:49

I feel awful for saying this but, I agree. I couldn’t enjoy a meal, say, if EJ was sitting opposite me.

A very gifted musician- that’s not in doubt - but he’s always been the antithesis of what I find attractive. Thick-set, blunt, not fine features, snub nose, fat (but very clever!fingers.

I’m not proud to say these things - he can’t help it. But I prefer to hear his music while NOT seeing him.

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It’s weird isn’t it. I love his music, but I just get this awful reaction when I see him.
I can’t even explain it.

Glad I’m not the only one because I always felt horrid about it!

hideawayforever · 15/08/2025 16:03

Beachtastic · 14/08/2025 09:53

Mad Men was a great series but I just couldn't bear to look at John Hamm (without, at the time, having any idea that he is in fact a prize arsehole) so ended up abandoning it altogether.

I used to watch it just for him.

Catpiece · 15/08/2025 16:21

AmIthatSpringy · 15/08/2025 14:23

Rafa Nadal
i find him repulsive , so much so that I couldn't bear to watch his matches.

All that picking of the pants out of the arse crack 🤢

PrincessHoneysuckle · 15/08/2025 16:22

smugmugg · 14/08/2025 10:56

@CalzoneOnLegs benedict cumberbatch is infamously an otter although the eyes do give shark.

I think Britney Spears & Halle Bailey (from live action Little Mermaid) give strong hammerhead energy.

Sandra Bullock once said in an interview that she looks like a moose and ive never been able to unsee it

TheSillyCrab · 15/08/2025 16:26

PInkyStarfish · 14/08/2025 07:31

George Clooney has always repulsed me. The slack jaw, looks like he dribbles a lot and mean looking eyes.

Dave Grohl, I can’t look at his mouth because of those big gums.

Billy Eilish - creep as hell.

Youngblud - same as Eilish, unwashed and creepy looking.

Gemma Collins - always looks sweaty.

Oooof. I'd leave home for Dave Grohl!!

CuriousKiteFlyer · 15/08/2025 16:50

Neil Gamen

Abracadabra12345 · 15/08/2025 18:10

Fetchthevet · 14/08/2025 09:27

Jarvis Cocker
Made me feel ill years ago when I first saw him on TOTP. Then when he opened his mouth and sang "you were the first girl at school to get breasts...I had to work to try to get you undressed.." or something similar, I could have honestly thrown up. I have to turn the radio over if he comes on. May well be a nice person, but I find him revolting, creepy and vomit-inducing.

The point about Jarvis is that he wrote what teenage sex-obsessed boys thought but songs at the time didn’t reflect that. I’m a Jarvis fan but can understand how he comes across as.

For me, it’s Adam Lambert and it grieves me to say this as I used to think he was hot. But he’s gradually become a caricature of himself over the years

Princessfluffy · 15/08/2025 18:54

Keith Lemon

ConnieHeart · 15/08/2025 19:31

PandoraSocks · 14/08/2025 09:33

Aw, James Blunt is lovely. I don't like his music, but he is very funny.

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Yeah I love James Blunt, his music is a bit shit but he's self deprecating, like Benson Boone & Lewis Capaldi. Would turn the radio over if they came on though

Charabanc · 15/08/2025 20:35

TheSillyCrab · 15/08/2025 16:26

Oooof. I'd leave home for Dave Grohl!!

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I bet that's what the woman he had an affair and a baby with thought too!

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EllyRoff · 15/08/2025 21:14

Isn’t it funny how we’ve had Trump, Farage, Starmer etc … but nobody has said Putin?
Putin doesn’t make me feel sick - obviously I’m not a fan but I don’t get the nausea feeling with him. So it’s not about simply not liking someone

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mauvaiseherbe · 16/08/2025 00:20

hideawayforever · 15/08/2025 09:30

Jonathan King always knocked me sick

his mobile mouth - if he zoomed in to kiss you he would swallow your head