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Actors you can't believe you once fancied

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Muddays · 09/02/2023 05:42

Urgh, it's so disappointing. I used think Gerard Butler was every kind of phwoarrgh but have finally had to accept that he's an unwashed, bloated smelly looking guy who just isn't what he thinks he is. Arrogance without any kind of respect or charisma is just a flattened pizza with no topping stuck behind the sofa.

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ApathyMartha · 09/02/2023 19:05

Re Viggo Mortensen check out his naked knife fight scene. Just Google it, no need to watch the film

KillingMeDeftly · 09/02/2023 19:06

Theunamedcat · 09/02/2023 18:13

Gary Oldman but only as sirius black

And Dracula! (The young version, obv)

Brendabigbaps · 09/02/2023 19:07

Jake Wood, the Ginger one who was in EastEnders, however this was when I/he was about 15. I went through a serious ginger phase

Eyesopenwideawake · 09/02/2023 19:09

David Soul in Starsky and Hutch. Poor love didn't age well...

CPL593H · 09/02/2023 19:10

David Soul (although I still wish him well) Yeah, Starsky crew, better bet.

I am old. Grin

CPL593H · 09/02/2023 19:11

Eyesopenwideawake · 09/02/2023 19:09

David Soul in Starsky and Hutch. Poor love didn't age well...

@Eyesopenwideawake

Spooky!

musicinspring1 · 09/02/2023 19:12

Ian Somerhalder. Thought he was beyond hot in The Vampire Diaies but following him on Instagram definitely shattered the illusion.

JaneJeffer · 09/02/2023 19:12

Noleafclover1 · 09/02/2023 18:33

Steve John Shepherd as Jo in This Life. Got a terrible shock when he appeared in Eastenders years later - he wasn't very old then but just aged so badly!!

I loved him in Eastenders, he was absolutely hilarious "you are an acolyte" Grin

MrsComet · 09/02/2023 19:14

You see, I think there are actors who you no longer fancy because they got older but you still phwoar over their younger selves like say Harrison Ford and Bruce Willis

And there actors who have said or done such weird, horrendous or daft things that it's even killed the attraction you had for them in their peak-hotness roles. For me that would include Jonny Depp and Orlando Bloom.

DesertIslandCondiment · 09/02/2023 19:16

Catoneverychair · 09/02/2023 18:12

Keanu Reeves. I liked him until the John Wick movies and now he played the character in Matrix 100 as well,
total put-off.

I love him as John Wick. I just love him.

Mrsjayy · 09/02/2023 19:17

Eyesopenwideawake · 09/02/2023 19:09

David Soul in Starsky and Hutch. Poor love didn't age well...

He was my first ever crush I must have been about 8 or 9.

feellikeanalien · 09/02/2023 19:26

I had a thing about Michael Douglas in Streets of San Francisco. Not so much now!

Also agree about Viggo Mortensen. Really hot as Aragorn although Sean Bean did pip him at the post for me in LOTR.

Robert Carlyle in the Full Monty, although to be fair I do still quite fancy him.

Quitetheminx · 09/02/2023 19:27

Cumberbatch

BellePeppa · 09/02/2023 19:29

I fancied Don Johnson when he was in Miami Vice. Now I just think eeugh so not my type.

Mrsjayy · 09/02/2023 19:31

I have a thing for Robert Carliyle there is something about him.

GinBlossom94 · 09/02/2023 19:32

musicinspring1 · 09/02/2023 19:12

Ian Somerhalder. Thought he was beyond hot in The Vampire Diaies but following him on Instagram definitely shattered the illusion.

Totally agree, he's a pretentious dick isn't he 😂

SantaBakula · 09/02/2023 19:33

I agree with some pp
Philip schofeild
Tom cruise
Johnny Depp

And my own crushs
Ian mcshane aka Lovejoy, James marsters ( spike > buffy) and if we can include singers Billy idol

sleepwhenyouaredead · 09/02/2023 19:35

@Shirty48 off topic I know but did you manage more than a few chapters of Alan Rickman's diaries? They were the most tedious I have ever come across and like a regular diary full of dates and times but with no inside info or indeed anything interesting. Maybe he didn't think they would be published and it was just to remind him where to go for dinner.

Holihobbies · 09/02/2023 19:38

Russell crowe, maximus decimus yumius to Zeus fatso repulsivus although to be fair it all went down hill pretty sharpish soon after Gladiator.

Shirty48 · 09/02/2023 19:39

@sleepwhenyouaredead I agree they were incredibly tedious. I hadn't heard of most of the people referenced and nothing exciting seemed to happen. Did you finish them?

Didcotdidnot · 09/02/2023 19:40

Dec from Ant and Dec. Ant is definitely the more attractive one now.

southernbelles · 09/02/2023 19:44

Tom Hiddleston in The Night Manager. He gives me the major ick now!

sleepwhenyouaredead · 09/02/2023 19:44

@Shirty48 No got to about chapter 3, flicked through a bit looking for interest and now it's top of a pile waiting to go to a charity shop.
Most disappointing

midsomermurderess · 09/02/2023 19:46

Robert De Nero, but way back, in his Deer Hunter days. Now he makes terrible films and comes across as a crashing bore.

RustyExhaust · 09/02/2023 19:46

Dennis Waterman😳 I was flicking through some very old ‘Jackie’ annuals and he was one of the ‘heart throb pin-ups’

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