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11 November 2011

Question for a Friday Night. Who was your first celebrity crush?
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Mine was Julie London on Emergency. I was 10 years old and she was older than my mom but I was in love.
Mine was Christopher Douglas who played Dylan Moody on One Life to Live. I couldn't even stand watching the show enough to look at him, though, so most of my love came from this picture (warning: shirtless and hottt) of him that was in some magazine I had in jr high. I think for minute he dated Jewel so I've always hated Jewel out of jealousy.
Didn't really consider whether he would date 13 yr old me if it wasn't for Jewel....
posted by rmless2 11 November | 21:00
link broke! picture
posted by rmless2 11 November | 21:01
David Cassidy!! I was 8 years old and MAD for him, posters all over my room. I even had a letter published in Tiger Beat magazine.
posted by JanetLand 11 November | 21:05
OMG! Emergency. Reminds me of Randolph Mantooth who must have been the first celebrity I ever noticed. Cobwebs indeed.
posted by mightshould 11 November | 21:21
On TV, Barbara Feldon, Agent 99 on Get Smart. On the radio, Petula Clark, with Dusty Springfield a close second.
posted by oneswellfoop 11 November | 21:28
Joey McIntyre from New Kids on the Block. I was 11 or so and he was so adorable to me with those blue eyes.
posted by bluesapphires 11 November | 21:34
Morten Harket, from a-ha.
posted by gaspode 11 November | 21:35
Merlin Olsen, as "Jonathan" on Little House on the Prairie. I was 12 when he appeared on the show, and I remember feeling a profound shift. In my mind.
posted by BoringPostcards 11 November | 21:39
I first thought Diana Rigg as Emma Peel, but I didn't see an actual Avengers episode until they were in color, so that means Stephanie Powers as April Dancer was first.

But, no! Lisa Loring as Wednesday Addams! Anyway, how could I forget Nancy Sinatra? She would have been my first crush on an adult entertainer, although Raquel Welch as Myra Breckinridge was the most influential, for good or bad.
posted by Ardiril 11 November | 22:11
Kristy McNichol* or Jodie Foster; I'm not sure which came first. Shaun Cassidy or Andy Gibb was my first guy crush, but that was a couple years later.

*I was told a few times that I kind of looked like her which was really nice because I thought she was pretty and I was a toad.
posted by deborah 11 November | 22:22
ha! like deborah - Shaun Cassidy first, Andy Gibb second. I had so many posters torn from Tiger Beat up in my room, I used to dress in the closet to hide from all those Shaun eyes.
posted by pinky 11 November | 23:22
Al Pacino.
posted by bearwife 11 November | 23:24
Elijah Wood in "The Adventures of Huck Finn".
posted by ThePinkSuperhero 11 November | 23:38
Diana Rigg, hands down. . .or hands somewhere. . .
posted by danf 12 November | 00:11
David Bowie, Paul Newman, Barry Goldwater. I was pretty retro, born in 68.
posted by rainbaby 12 November | 00:37
I guess it was a character on 'The Addams Family'.

Thing

*sigh*



Well, no... Grace Slick. ♥
posted by Kronos_to_Earth 12 November | 00:40
BARRY GOLDWATER?
posted by BoringPostcards 12 November | 01:06
"David Bowie, Paul Newman, Barry Goldwater." One of these things is not like the others...
posted by arse_hat 12 November | 01:34
Carl Sagan. "Cosmos" was on when I was about 10. I had a sort -of crush on Marine Boy when I was about 5, but I didn't really know what a crush was at that time.
posted by evilcupcakes 12 November | 03:00
Peter Tork, so I'd have been about 8 at the time.
posted by Senyar 12 November | 03:11
"David Bowie, Paul Newman, Barry Goldwater." One of these things is not like the others...
I'd say each of the three came from a totally different direction, but in the 60s, Barry G. was the only non-Kennedy in Washington who wasn't uglier than sin.

And Diana Rigg was my second, only because The Avengers debuted in the U.S. six months after Get Smart.
posted by oneswellfoop 12 November | 03:33
I er... okay. John Cusack in *wince* The Journey Of Nattie Gann.
posted by Specklet 12 November | 04:29
Yes. And Ed "Too Tall" Jones.

I was kinda precocious, with the crushing thing. It's been a lifelong habit.
posted by rainbaby 12 November | 06:46
Zack Morris, from Saved by the Bell, played by Mark-Paul Gosselaar.
posted by fancyoats 12 November | 10:14
Senyar, my folks went to college in Minnesota with Peter Tork. They told me there was another Peter Thorkelson in their class, who was in fact much more popular and friendly than the Peter H. Thorkelson of Monkees fame. Everybody called the likeable one Peter. Tork, they called Peter H.

My first real celebrity crush was Grace Jones.
posted by Hugh Janus 12 November | 10:30
Like deborah and pinky, I cycled quickly through Shaun Cassidy and Andy Gibb (mostly, I suspect, because their posters were freebies in Dynamite magazine), then --- you and me, evilcupcakes! --- on to Carl Sagan, who wore that dreamy turtleneck and talked like a hyper-intelligent, super-relaxed Kermit the Frog. Sigh. I never really got over that one.
posted by Elsa 12 November | 11:10
Wow, there were TWO Peter Torks!
posted by Senyar 12 November | 14:38
Olivia Newton John and Elizabeth Montgomery were my first celebrity crushes, but when I was 9 I fell really hard for Kim Richards in Escape to Witch Mountain. Se was only a year or two older than me, so I felt like there was a good chance that we could end up hanging out together. I eventually moved my crush over to an older woman, Kristy McNichol, after seeing her on Battle of the Network Stars.
posted by Slack-a-gogo 12 November | 15:20
Micky Dolenz of the Monkees. Until he went with the curly hair. That really annoyed me. Also Wrangler Jane from F-Troop.
posted by Splunge 12 November | 15:41
The show Emergency is streaming on Netflix now, for all you Julie London/Randy Mantooth fans.
posted by JanetLand 12 November | 16:21
JanetLand, heh. Some things are best left to faulty memories. I am quite sure I'd wonder about my crazy self upon seeing it again.
posted by mightshould 12 November | 17:31
Geez there were so many. Mrs chewie likes to laugh hysterically at me b/c I had a crush on Dr. McCoy.

Also, Gene Hackman. Paul McCartney.

Kate Jackson. Kristy McNichol AND Jodie Foster. I still have a crush on Jodie Foster.

I also thought Beverly Crusher was brain cripplingly gorgeous.
posted by chewatadistance 12 November | 18:19
Also an admirer here in my youth of Peter Tork and Leonard Nimoy as Dr Spock. Yeah, really old!
posted by bearwife 12 November | 18:26
I figured out why I was thinking Merlin Olsen was a hilarious choice. I was confusing him with Marlin Perkins. LOL
posted by chewatadistance 12 November | 18:30
Corinne Bohrer.
posted by Eideteker 12 November | 21:33
Errol Flynn in the original "Robin Hood" movie. I caught it on tv once when I was young, a tween perhaps, and I just thought he was so handsome/charming/attractive before I really knew what those attributes meant. He must be the reason I started loving facial hair. (As Telly Savales is responsible for my love of bald men).

Of course, finding out the darker side of Mr. Flynn in my later years did take some of the shine off of him. But he'll always be my first "celebrity" crush.
posted by redvixen 12 November | 21:33
chewie, you were just confusing your 1970s TV titans! :D

But I have to admit, I downloaded that pic of Merlin Olsen to my phone and I keep calling it up every now and then and going, "Oh... wow." I guess the crush is not over. :)
posted by BoringPostcards 12 November | 22:52
I er... okay. John Cusack in *wince* The Journey Of Nattie Gann.

Me too, Specklet! Then I went and forgot about him until Say Anything, but once I put two and two together, he was far and away my top celebrity crush for years after.
posted by EvaDestruction 13 November | 00:09
Yvonne Craig
posted by Thorzdad 13 November | 09:00
Oh yeah, Dr McCoy. Good grief! And Tim Matheson, right back to the days of The Virginian.
posted by Senyar 13 November | 09:24
Errol Flynn was quite the dish.
I remember liking Mighty Mouse's biceps, but this hasn't translated into later life except when Andy Kaufman did his Mighty Mouse bit.
I really have to think about this. I think I thought Stan Laurel was cute, but I don't think I felt any actual attraction to anyone that I was aware of until I was a teenager and it usually wasn't a physical thing. Hmm.
posted by ethylene 13 November | 10:46
Oh yeah, Carolyn (Morticia) Jones. Rawr!
posted by Splunge 13 November | 12:01
...until Say Anything...

Totally! And then again in Grosse Point Blank.
posted by Specklet 13 November | 18:41
George Michael. My god, how did none of you not fall in love first with George Michael? He was my very first door-sized poster. I would kill to have that back again. His hair was feathery blow-dried perfection.
posted by msali 13 November | 18:52
Suzi Quatro. I saw her on Spicks and Specks recently and she's still got it, too.

Nicole Kidman in the mini-series 'Vietnam'. However, she went downhill fast in my estimation since then.
posted by dg 13 November | 21:26
George Michael was a crush too, msali, just later on.
posted by deborah 13 November | 22:50
Not a celebrity I guess, but seeing some of R Crumb's drawings of curvy ladies is first time I remember feeling that special tingle.

But if that doesn't count, then the Solid Gold dancers. And if they don't count, Loni Anderson certainly does.
posted by danostuporstar 14 November | 06:32
Hmmm....

Yvonne De Carlo, Barbara Eden, or Elizabeth Montgomery... one of those three.
posted by pjern 16 November | 12:11
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