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11 November 2011
Question for a Friday Night. Who was your first celebrity crush? →[More:]
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....
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.
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.
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.
"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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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. :)
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.
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.
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.