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11 October 2008

Stolen from the Onion What was your most embarrassing early celebrity crush?[More:]Elijah Wood was my first. I told my 4th grade friend Betsy that he lived under my bed. I thought at the time that she believed me.
I'm not embarrassed about it, but I used to practice kissing on a poster of Alyssa Milano.
posted by eamondaly 11 October | 14:12
Moon Maid in the old Dick Tracy daily strip. I must have been 6 or 7. How embarrassing is that?
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There seems to be no picture of her on the web but this one. I'm not sure if it's just a knockoff. I remember her being better drawn.
posted by DarkForest 11 October | 14:43
My first fan letter was to Les McKeown of the Bay City Rollers, when I was in 2nd or 3rd grade. Imagine my horror when the cute boy I loved went solo and turned into the Scottish Michael Jackson.
posted by scody 11 October | 14:47
Also not embarrassed but I still kind of have a thing for Corinne Bohrer. Recently, I've seen her as the mom in the Pizza Rolls commercial where the kid punches through the wall to get at the delicious snacks. It's a bit of a slide from playing Zed's girlfriend in the Police Academy movies, but as long as she's working.

Watched History of the World Part I with my girlfriend last night. Not Madeline Kahn's finest hour, but I still love her.
posted by Eideteker 11 October | 14:49
I may have mentioned this here before, but it was Gunther Gebel-Williams, the animal trainer from Ringling/Barnum & Bailey Circus. I was in fifth grade.

The last time I saw him was years and years later-we had taken my children to the circus, and he was there watching-in the ring-as his son was doing an elephant act. The finale of the act had one elephant spinning on a round raised platform-apparently the elephant had had plenty of fire because suddenly as it twirled around it started defecating, making a nice swirl of elephant poop going around and around as well.

Gunther just shook his head. It was awesome.

May he rest in peace.
posted by bunnyfire 11 October | 15:05
I found Michael J Fox unbearably attractive as a pre-teen - Family Ties (although I disagreed strongly with Alex's politics), The Secret of My Success and Poison Ivy, and then of course Back to the Future and Teen Wolf, were ossum. I once fainted at the sight of a friend's poster of him (it was also a very hot day and we'd just ridden our bikes up the massive hill on which we both lived). I cried quite a bit when I saw the first footage of him afflicted with Parkinson's.
posted by goo 11 October | 15:18
I was completely head over heels for George Michael from the very first time I saw Wake Me Up Before You Gogo. It was love at first sight. He was the first (and only) man to grace my wall in poster form. Everything else was unicorns and rainbows. I even got a door-sized poster of him looking all hunky and sexy. I was too young to realize he was gay gay gay gay gay. Nowadays, it is painfully obvious that he wasn't into girls, but I still hold out hope that the only girl he would ever love would be me.
posted by msali 11 October | 15:46
Fern, in the animated Charlotte's Web.
posted by WolfDaddy 11 October | 15:57
This is really, really embarrassing. My first crush was on a puppet. This one. I was only seven, for God's sake. Okay?
posted by essexjan 11 October | 16:28
Richard Hatch from the original, TV, Battlestar Gallactica.

But for truth, I've never seen another sexy man with a center part since.
posted by vers 11 October | 16:56
Clarissa Explains It All.

My dad always mocked me for having a crush on Blossom. But that was totally bullshit. Bullshit!
posted by mullacc 11 October | 17:11
Jaclyn Smith from Charlie's Angels. Everyone else had the Farah poster, sure, but I had the hots for the sultry brunette. Poor Kate Jackson -- no one had a crush on Kate Jackson.
posted by BitterOldPunk 11 October | 17:16
No love for Kate Jackson? C'mere, Baby.
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posted by DarkForest 11 October | 17:24
Jan, in your defense, that's a goodlooking puppet.
posted by bunnyfire 11 October | 17:25
Kate Jackson was always my favourite, BOP.

And msali, I was in lurve with George Michael after 'Bad Boys' - "easy girls and late nights, cigarettes and love bites, why do you have to be so cruel, you're such a fool!".
posted by goo 11 October | 17:38
Oh man. There are a few bad ones. The one that springs to mind right now is Corey Hart. I was eleven. We both played tenor sax; it seemed to me a match made in heaven. Sadly, it was another five years before my first kiss.

Also (and this is bad), John Cusack (who isn't bad at all, I still have a little thing for him except this is) from the era of *wince* The Journey of Natty Gann. He played a young and mysterious hobo who travelled with a wolf. I ached to meet him.
posted by Specklet 11 October | 17:39
Staci Keanan from the lame tv show My Two Dads.

pitter patter
posted by chillmost 11 October | 17:39
David Cassidy - damn those Patridge Family reruns when I was growing up!
posted by gomichild 11 October | 18:11
want to hear something wonky?

when i was about 12 i loved ralph maccio.

my 12 year old has finished watching the karate kid trilogy on tv recently and is absolutely in love with 15 year old ralph maccio.

oh. dear. lord.
posted by eatdonuts 11 October | 18:53
want to hear something wonky?

when i was about 12 i loved ralph maccio.

my 12 year old has finished watching the karate kid trilogy on tv recently and is absolutely in love with 15 year old ralph maccio.

oh. dear. lord.
posted by eatdonuts 11 October | 18:54
I dated someone in 1990 who looked just like a young Winona Ryder. She was really uptight and not that into me so I just never called her again. The last time I saw her she was married and unhappy.
posted by craniac 11 October | 18:56
Lance Bass from N'Sync when I was 10-ish. Sad, right?
posted by unsurprising 11 October | 19:08
Leif Garrett. I just thought he was so cute. I also remember crushing on "Juan Epstein" from "Welcome Back, Kotter".

Bunnyfire, I'd forgotten Gunther Gebel-Williams. For years I kept the large, glittery program from the three times I went to the circus - with Gunther's picture on the covers. Wow! That really brought back memories!
posted by redvixen 11 October | 19:44
I always liked Horshack.
posted by bunnyfire 11 October | 20:20
Merlin Olsen. This was during his "Little House on the Prairie" days.
posted by BoringPostcards 11 October | 20:28
Kirk Cameron. I was desperately hoping I wasn't really gay, but he made it a lot harder to deny. It really messed with my head when I found out he'd turned into a fundie nutcase.
posted by treepour 11 October | 21:04
i bet that happened A LOT.
Kirk Cameron was made for young gay boys.
posted by ethylene 11 October | 21:14
Kirk Cameron was made for young gay boys.

NOT!
posted by BoringPostcards 11 October | 21:55
Well, he wasn't for girls who like boys!
i didn't say all young gay boys.
posted by ethylene 11 October | 22:00
We all know gay boys come in a variety of flavors.
A rainbow, even.
They should send out sample packs.
posted by ethylene 11 October | 22:04
I'm watching Escape from New York right now and just remembered what a crush I had on Adrienne Barbeau when I was a teen.
posted by octothorpe 11 October | 22:09
Kirk Cameron. I had a poster of him wearing jeans and a white t-shirt with a leather jacket... hot.
posted by loiseau 11 October | 22:17
i thought he was gay, but it was just the nutmeats of the fundie nutcase.
posted by ethylene 11 October | 22:27
Oh, i got one.
We were watching The Goonies when it first came out and i thought that one guy was really cute, really had something. My sister turns to me and and says, "That's a girl." in a voice like a audio eye rolling.
It was Martha Plimpton.
As i guy i thought she was something, as a girl she does nothing for me, but i always hoped she was related to George Plimpton.
posted by ethylene 11 October | 22:53
They should send out sample packs.
All colors and sizes, please.
posted by WolfDaddy 11 October | 23:11
Balthazar Getty. My eleven year old self had such a thing for him.
posted by kellydamnit 12 October | 00:55
You think David Cassidy is emabarrassing... for me, it was Shaun Cassidy. I had the album.

I also rather had a thing for Gopher from the Love Boat. So cute.
posted by Pips 12 October | 06:39
Heh, this list amuses me. || What the heck

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