CONFESS!!! Who was your childhood crush

[LynneSin]

Seems I'm getting shit for having crushes on people like Davy Jones and Arnold Horshack.

So fess up everyone - who is YOUR childhood crush. Let's let it all out and lay the cards on the table.

[Scuba]

1. Lucille Ball. Man, she was hot!

[Arkansas Granny]

2. OK, if you insist. Edd "Kookie" Byrnes.

[pinboy3niner]

4. He was such a talented artist...

[Arkansas Granny]

8. Stop it, now! I actually owned that record when I was 13 or 14 years old.

[pinboy3niner]

9. LOL!

I was a big fan of the show, too. We watched it religiously at my house. And everybody loved Kookie.

[Blue_In_AK]

201. Oh, yeah!

He was a hottie.

[pinboy3niner]

3. Well, no wonder you're getting shit

Arnold Horshack? Really?



If I were to post my juvenile crushes--like Ann-Margret--I'm pretty sure I wouldn't catch any shit for it.

Hate to tell you, but this time it's just you, Lynne.

[LynneSin]

17. Yes really!

He was cute back then. I was never into obvious hotness like Vinny Barbarino - I liked the quiet geeky kind.

[TrollBuster9090]

151. Considering how Vinny Barbarino grew up and filled out, I'd say you made the right choice there! nt

[TrollBuster9090]

150. Frankly, I don't find Arnold Horshack any more bizarre than CHRISTOPHER WALKEN, and a lot of women

have a crush on him.

I remember the first time I heard it. I was playing a truth or dare game with some girl when we were both in our teens, and I asked her who her movie star crush was, and she confessed it was Walken. I recoiled in shock, realizing that, at that point in his career he'd played mostly emotionally unstable characters. Janet said she was drawn to his emotional vulnerability and fragility.

Well, if that works for Walken, it's at least ten times more true of Arnold Horshack!

[pinboy3niner]

153. C'mon, who doesn't love 'The Continental'?

[TrollBuster9090]

154. He can be smooth, but also a bad boy. (I don't think he ever paid for the vase.)

[Denninmi]

5. I don't remember a childhood crush.

But I had one hell of a thing going for Helen Hunt back in her Mad About You and As Good As It Gets days.

But she never called me. Her loss.

[woodsprite]

6. Randy Mantooth (from Emergency)

Does anybody remember that show?

[nolabear]

47. My sister would have wrestled you naked in Macy's window for him.

And she became a 911 operator out of that little crush.

[GoCubsGo]

76. Mine, too.

I still have a thing for firemen. And, MeTV will be airing Emergency! this wall.

[woodsprite]

122. Oh! I'll have to hunt it down for my son

He's a youg preteen and we've been watching some of the old shows
I used to enjoy, mainly on The Hub. Last year sometime
he hollered into the kitchen to me to tell him about
"The Facts of Life". I realized what he was talking about
when he said "You know. It comes on between Alf and Mork
and Mindy." The facts I was thinking about don't make
good family dinner conversation.

[GoCubsGo]

128. NBC has the first 4 seasons online.

http://www.nbc.com/classic-tv/emergency/video/

Also on Hulu.

[TrollBuster9090]

152. Start an IV with D5W!

Ironically, so did my wife! I didn't see the attraction, but I'll confess it's only out of jealousy.

But what the hell happened to his partner, Roy DeSoto, turning all bad??? Stealing John Locke's kidney and everything. I guess he got tired of being a good guy.

[Robyn66]

194. OMG

I LOVED him! And I was a little kid when that was on!

[RevStPatrick]

7. As per the "If the Afterlife gave you a choice to live in a TV show..." thread...

Dawn Wells:

[HopeHoops]

12. And just where the hell was the WalMart on Gilligan's Island?

[RevStPatrick]

19. What, you mean the outfit?

I think the passengers all went to the Honolulu Wal-Mart before that 3 hour tour began.
Obviously, Gilligan and the Skipper didn't, since they each only had one outfit.
And I suppose the Howells wouldn't have been caught dead there.
Professor Roy Hinkley only had one outfit as well.
But yeah, Mary Ann just seemed to magically have more clothes than all the others put together.
Luckily, they were mostly skimpy... ummm... I mean weather appropriate.

[HopeHoops]

20. How about Ginger? Was there a Victoria's Secret on the other side of the island?

[ronwelldobbs]

104. She even took a good mugshot

when she got busted for toking up.

[Art_from_Ark]

204. She didn't get busted for toking up

She got busted for possession, which she explained on Ellen was not her stuff.

[TrollBuster9090]

155. Frankly, I think you'd get sick of the coconut cream pie, and start craving Ginger pie.

And I was surprised to find out how many girls had crushes on THE PROFESSOR.
Considering how asexual they made Russel Johnson's character, I figure it was that "must attain the unattainable" thing that we all suffer from.

[Shrek]

10. Kristy McNichol

I didn't even like Family all that much but I watched it just for her.

[TheManInTheMac]

124. Me too! I bought the book just because her picture was on it.

[KBlagburn]

134. My room was covered with her pics.

While my brothers crush was Farah Fawcett. and we were only a year apart.

[HopeHoops]

11. Oh, my. Kindergarten - Katy Kotzack (sp?) - we both had reversible jackets and were betrothed.

I moved six weeks into 1st grade and never saw her again, so the "betrothed" part didn't work out as planned. It's just as well. I've got the perfect wife now.

In second grade, there was Betsy Wong. We'd sit on the top of the monkey bars and have spitting contests through the gaps in our front teeth. Back then, that was considered "dating".

I didn't have a crush on a celebrity until, well, probably high school, and that was Goldie Hawn. She's still hot. Then there were the Wilson sisters (Heart), also still hot. And of course, Whitney Houston, but she's tragically gone now. None of the four would have been interested in me (too young (other than Houston), and a nobody).

Other than that, as far as celebrities are concerned, I really can't think of one I'd even now (if I were single) have a crush on. I'm happy with what I have.

[pinboy3niner]

13. More power to ya, Hoops

You found a great partner.

[HopeHoops]

15. Best there is (in my humble opinion)

[edhopper]

14. If we are talking Hollywood

I had a few, but definitely Natalie Wood was a big one.

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[pipi_k]

27. She was so beautiful

When I was a kid, there was a car whose front grille reminded me of her.

We're talking late 50s or early 60s, maybe a Cadillac or something similar.

I tried looking for photos, but no luck

[pinboy3niner]

31. Maria, Maria, Maria

Most of us probably remember her most from West Side Story.

That was such blow, to lose her at not yet 43. She was a good actress who could have gone on to become a great actress.

[pink-o]

16. My first was probably Paul McCartney

But who didn't have a crush on him after "Hard Day's Night"? And like any real rock connoissuer, I grew up and realized Lennon was the superior one anyway.

Aside from that, when I was 15 I just went bananas for Creedence Clearwater Revival and plastered my room with pix of John Fogerty. I was seriously obsessed, to the point where I would scour Berkeley for him every weekend. Of course, I never found him, life went on, and I stopped giving him much thought.

But wouldn't you know it--I was working and the USAirways ticket counter in 1990, and Fogerty shows up in my line! He looked exactly the same as when I was in love with him, so 20 years after the fact I regressed right back into that 15 yr old lovestruck girl. I never let on that I knew who he was, just gave him his seat and managed to stay professional.

But inside I was screaming like a teenybopper!!!

[renate]

96. that's so cool! lucky you!

It's so neat that you got to meet him! I hope he was nice...

[pink-o]

169. oh, he was charming! And very down-to-earth

The thing that struck me was he was traveling with his wife--and she was exactly my age. My 15 yr old self was sayin': "That cudda been ME!"

[ArnoldLayne]

18. Jan Brady

[pipi_k]

21. At the risk of seeming a little odd...

Mighty Mouse and Perry Como.

If we're talking about famous people, I mean.


If it's just ordinary people, I had a mad crush on this little boy named David starting in Kindergarten and lasting five years till my family moved away. He had big brown eyes and black hair.

His initials were the reverse of mine. D.V.

I thought this meant we were destined to be together.

[fizzgig]

22. i've been crazy about billie joe armstrong since i was about 12

brendan frasier is another one.

[LynneSin]

24. I like Mike Dirnt better but only because I have a thing for bassists

[fizzgig]

29. i married a bassist

[femmocrat]

23. Frankie Avalon.

I still have a crush on him!

[OriginalGeek]

25. Sam

[shanti]

42. ha!

my ex had a childhood crush on her too!

[yesphan]

166. My first erotic dream

was about Liz.

[Aristus]

26. Karen Valentine.

I just had a monster crush on her from the time I was 7 until 10 or 11 or so...

[Bertha Venation]

102. You must remember Room 222

I remember it well.

[hifiguy]

121. She was soooooo cute! nt

[geardaddy]

184. Oh yeah!

I had a crush on her too.

[ArnoldLayne]

28. I just remembered I also had a crush on The Sour Grape Girls

from The Banana Splits Show from the late 60's.

[OriginalGeek]

32. Yep

I like purple stockings on a lady to this day...

[Ready4Change]

123. What? They were so rotten.

Mean little girls, always messing with my beloved Splits.

[MgtPA]

30. Michael Landon (Little Joe), David Cassidy, Leonard Whiting (Romeo), Mark Spitz

[colorado_ufo]

149. In the Small World category -

I just shared a limo ride to the airport with David Cassidy this past July 2 when he was in Las Vegas. Actually, it was just part of a ride! The previous driver had accidentally dropped him off at the wrong terminal, and my ride picked him up. He had been waiting outside in the Vegas heat for 40 minutes but still managed to be gracious and pleasant.

As fate would have it, as soon as he sat down in the car, "Last Train to Claksville" came on the radio. His mood brightened and he spoke about his dear friend, Davy Jones, whose show he was actually covering for due to Jones's death.

Our conversation was brief, but I will remember him always as a very nice guy.

[MgtPA]

161. Nice story!

[gollygee]

33. I tease my daughter for her love of One Direction but mine aren't any better

Probably worse.

Erik Estrada
Scott Baio
Shawn Cassidy

[LynneSin]

34. I had a crush on Shaun Cassidy but that ended about age 13

then I discovered Led Zeppelin

[gollygee]

35. Uhm, that's about when I discovered Duran Duran.

So I didn't have a crush on him anymore either, but I think you and I were listening to different music.

[EC]

36. Robert Plant

and Robby Robinson.

[LynneSin]

38. He didn't come until my teenage years

but he was the everlasting one. I still adore him!

[pipi_k]

43. Jimmy Page...

whom I didn't develop a crush on until I saw the "The Song Remains The Same" video in my 40s.

Unbridled hotness on a guitar

[VWolf]

68. Ok I'll admit it!

I had a man-crush on Page as an adolescent. He was just so damn cool and gifted. When I finally had the means, I purchased a cherry-sunburst Les Paul. Every time I pick it up I realize I'm not really worthy to play it.

Other than that .... it was always Farrah for me.

[pipi_k]

88. Hey that's cool...

I'll admit now that I still harbor a girl crush on Kirstie Alley.

I don't know why.

Oh, and Jane Russell. She was the bomb.

[TwilightGardener]

198. I had a crush on him, when I was a big preteen Zeppelin fan.

Then he started looking kinda bad. Stay off drugs, kids.

[maddiemom]

63. Robbie Robertson?

[EC]

79. Yeah,

you're right. Been a long time.

[Rain Mcloud]

37. Doris Day

[shawn703]

39. Barbara Mandrell

I was only like 3 or 4 when her show was on TV, and I had a huge crush at the time.

[LynneSin]

46. that's ok, I had crushes on Tony Orlando and Englebert Humperdinck

I know - the shame =(.

[Major Nikon]

40. Dr. Ruth

[nolabear]

49. Sorry but

[shanti]

41. ok, i'll admit it

i had several: billy mumy, mark lindsay, kurt russell. all y'all boomers know who they are

[pipi_k]

44. Oh yeah...

Boomer who knows who they are.

I will admit to a bit of a crush on Mark Lindsay.

My real teenage crush though...

Dino, Desi, and Billy. All of 'em.

[shanti]

71. all of them?

i grew up in so cal and remember watching paul revere and the raiders on "where the action is" and "hullaballoo", beachy dance shows. do you remember when tiger beat held a contest to win mark lindsay's ponytail? good times, hee!

[livetohike]

45. Mark Lindsay.....those eyes!

[1monster]

78. Never had a crush on Mark Lindsay, but I loved his music.

[nolabear]

48. For some reason I was a sidekick freak.

Illya Kuryakin, Artemis Gordon, Spock...
Of course there WAS that unfortunate Jim Morrison period...

[csziggy]

133. Well, of course the sidekicks were the brains of the operations

The main guys were mostly brawn, few brains for the most part.

[TrollBuster9090]

156. Yes, sidekicks were usually the brains of the operation. SOMETIMES, LITERALLY!

[MiddleFingerMom]

141. All the boys wanted to BE Ilya Kuryakin (and not Napoleon Solo)...

.
.
.
... though now, with NCIS, we all want to be Gibbs (and not Duckie).
.
.
.

[hifiguy]

185. I know I did.

I was about 10 during the heyday of The Man From U.N.C.L.E. and really, really wanted to be Illya Kuryakin when I grew up. At least on the days I didn't want to be the great Formula One driver Jim Clark.

[LWolf]

50. No Horshack; Barbarino here. nt

[Rozlee]

51. Mighty Mouse.

OK, I was three. Maybe it explains why I dated so many rats before I fell in love with the big cheese.

[LaydeeBug]

52. Speed Racer...and *not* the movie. nt

[GallopingGhost]

53. Matt Dillon

[sa2968]

54. Christopher Atkins in Blue Lagoon. I wanted to be Brooke Shields!!!!!!!!

[VWolf]

69. You wanted to glue your hair to your breasts so they wouldn't show on camera?

Apparently, that's what she did.


A friend once told me Brooke was a real triple threat.
Couldn't sing.
Couldn't dance.
Couldn't act.

[TrollBuster9090]

157. Well, I wouldn't mid being Christopher Atkins, if it means I get to go skinny dipping with

KATHY TROUT

Who was Brooke Shield's body double for the underwater nude scenes. What's really incredible is that she was 35 when she did that movie, and still had a figure that could pass for a teen aged girl.

[dr.strangelove]

55. Alyssa Milano and Drew Barrymore

And they still are my celebrity crushes. I'm very loyal I guess. I am a couple of years older than Drew and about the same age as Alyssa, so I sort of grew up adoring two popular child and teen actresses, who amazingly enough survived and still work.

Recently I was watching a kids show called Kick Buttowski with my daughter when I yelled out, that Alyssa's voice. She voices one of the cartoon characters. My kids thought I was crazy, but my wife just rolled her eyes and told me that you have to stop the celebrity crush when they are only doing voice work.

[BB1]

56. Daisy Duke

Never gave much about cars, though.

[cloudbase]

57. Julie Newmar

and Barbara Feldon.

[Art_from_Ark]

190. Them, and Diana Rigg

And Barbara Eden, too.

[Locrian]

58. Michelle!

[sinkingfeeling]

59. Troy Donahue.

[skydive forever]

60. Valerie Bertinelli

Still is, still beautiful to me.

[Bosso 63]

164. Me too,

and yes she is.

[IcyPeas]

61. David Cassidy

[TrogL]

62. Sean Connery

One of first hints that I was going to turn out not-straight.

[KamaAina]

64. Lauri Hendler

the middle sister on Gimme A Break! Kind of the female equivalent of Davy Jones (though certainly not Horshack ).

[kwassa]

65. Sophia

[Capn Sunshine]

206. About time! And Marilyn.......and Bridget Bardot

I was reading through this thread thinking to myself "how could no one mention Sophia Loren? Or Marilyn

Marilyn lived near my Aunt and I saw her driving by with her housekeeper once and discovered what "the hots" meant, literally.


Bardot

[malthaussen]

66. I had so many...

The first was probably Linda, a girl who lived up the street... cute little blonde, my "first kiss," too. But I was only about nine, I wouldn't have known what to do with her.

First actress I had a real thing for was probably Angela Cartwright (Penny Robinson in Lost in Space). The bigger girls on TV were cute, but little Penny seemed more accessible because she was close to my age. I definitely knew what I wanted to do with her...

-- Mal

[pscot]

67. Hedy Lamarr

"No man leaves Delilah."

[mucifer]

177. "that's Hedly" ... sorry I couldn't help myself.

[Scout]

70. Bobby Sherman, Pete Duell, Kirk Douglas...

like me, my crushes changed over the years.

of course the Beatles were in there too, and Davy Jones.

[kurtzapril4]

93. Peter Duell

Was my first celebrity crush! My second one was Keith Moon.

Guess I got a thing for guys with big eyebrows!

[RFKHumphreyObama]

72. Sigourney Weaver

Saw her in the Ghostbusters movies and...man...she was hot

Still got a massive crush on her all these years later

[awoke_in_2003]

73. Betty White...

I always liked older, funny women.

[RFKHumphreyObama]

74. Funny, I think I used to have a crush on Rue McClanahan

Still do, to some extent

But re-watching the Golden Girls, actually I am finding Betty White very attractive. I seem to have a thing for much older women as well

[awoke_in_2003]

86. My crush on her...

was more during the 70's Mary Tyler Moore timeframe

[RFKHumphreyObama]

87. Will have to watch MTM again

It was slightly before my time so, whilst I've seen it in the past, my memory of her in that role isn't as vivid as I'd like it to be.

While it's a good thing that she and Rue McClanahan didn't want to be typecast and therefore switched roles in the Golden Girls, it would have been interesting to see her do Blanche's role on the show. I think it's probably a tribute to her professionalism in playing the character of Rose that I just can't imagine it

[Mopar151]

75. Ann-Margret, for sure

Raquel Welch, Linda Vaughn

[1monster]

77. As a first grader: Dr. Ben Casey. As a preteen: RFK In junior: Quentin Collins.

After that, I never had time for crushes...

[Scout]

186. Quentin Collins...

second only to Barnabas in my heart.

Watching the Dark Shadows series from Netflix has been a real hoot. I was only 10 or so years old when it went off the air, so id din't remember a lot of detail, but i remembered the gist of a lot of it!

[alfredo]

80. Juliet Prowse. The gal had wonderful legs.

http://cdn-wac.emirates247.com/polopoly_fs/1.345763.1295766113!/image/1786352280.jpg



Damn good dancer too. Pancreatic Cancer took her from us.

[Jack Rabbit]

81. Let's see. I'm sixty . . .

Annette Funicello, Angela Cartwright (by the time she was in Lost in Space, but not on the Danny Thomas Show), Linda Dey (early/mid) teens.

And then there was Miss January, 1966. Can't forget her, either. I was 14.

[madrchsod]

135. so you like redheads too.....

[alfredo]

180. I forgot about Annette. I have always been partial to dancers and singers.

[fifthoffive]

82. Fred Astaire

I used to stay up and watch the late movie coming out of Cincinnati (channel 5???). Anyway, they showed a lot of Astaire movies and I just fell in love.

[AtheistCrusader]

83. Cassandra Petersen

And my elementary school librarian that sort of looked like her.

[kwassa]

131. Did she, um, dress like her?

[AtheistCrusader]

146. Manner of dress, no

but the jet black beehive and loooooong hair..

[NRaleighLiberal]

84. Elizabeth Montgomery (Samantha on Bewitched)!

[Rozlee]

85. Sad to say if you ask that question to future female DUers

They'll all probably say unanimously, "Robert Pattinson."

[ragemage]

89. Molly Ringwald

Being an 80s guy I had this massive crush on Molly Ringwald in high school. Saw all the 80s movies with her in it (Pretty in Pink, 16 Candles, etc...) Of course I went to see them with my little sister who just wanted to go to the movies...what a nice brother I was...

[LiberalEsto]

90. Richard Chamberlain

He played Dr. Kildare on tv.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

174. Me, too. I thought he was totally hot.

Years later he turned out to be gay, but oh, well....

[Ava]

91. I was a weird kid

I'd like to think my mom instilled a good taste in men in me. She brought me up on older movies and three of my favorites had Paul Newman in them. I thought he was the best looking man to ever walk this earth (I think I might even still think that).

Then there were the teen sweethearts of the 90's, but I didn't get too much into them. I did love Leonardo Dicaprio after watching Romeo + Juliet.

[amb123]

92. Super-Heroines were my crushes

Yvonne "Batgirl" Craig
Lynda "Wonder Woman" Carter

and especially

JoAnna "Mighty Isis" Cameron

They all came along just when I hit puberty. Typical Man, I know.

[Spirochete]

94. Marlo Thomas

from That Girl. Weird haircut, but megacute.

[maddiemom]

120. Very popular hairstyle in the sixties. All the "mod" British models had versions.s

Julie Christie back in the day.

[hifiguy]

95. There were a few

Nancy Sinatra, Diana Rigg, Barbara Eden, and others but I think Nancy was the first.

[solara]

97. Kind of strange to think about now

When I was very young my first crush was John Raitt..go figure

then Pernell Roberts ( I think I had a go find yer daddy complex)


Eric Burdon

Jim Morrison

Marty Balin

Jack Bruce

Jimi Hendrix

John Lennon

[Tom_Foolery]

98. Marie Osmond and Linda Blair...n/t

[Mad_Dem_X]

99. My very first celebrity crush

was Tom Jones. I was very young then; he had a TV show (I think). My next big celeb crush was John Travolta.

[Bertha Venation]

100. Keep in mind that I am a lesbian. Donny Osmond.

I had a huge poster of him on the wall right next to my head. I would kiss his giant teeth good night.

Later I dated a woman, also a Mormon, who had large teeth . . . Hmmm.

[FailureToCommunicate]

101. Another vote for Annette Funicello (of Micky Mouse Club fame) and...

[ronwelldobbs]

103. Kim Richards

I'm so disappointed that she's turned into such a drunken mess in her later years.

[Skittles]

113. I remember her "back in the day"

she was so fresh-faced cute:

[Frank Cannon]

191. I hadn't heard that. That's sad.

I loved her dusky "smoker's voice" that she had even as a kid.

She still looks pretty good, though.

[applegrove]

105. John on Emergency.

[JoeyT]

106. Oh jeez,

around 10-12 I remember being absolutely smitten with Joan Jett.

[DissidentVoice]

107. Several...depending on era

Early on it was Jaclyn Smith from "Charlie's Angels."

As a teenager it was Nancy Wilson from Heart. I play guitar and to see a beautiful woman who could ROCK like she did was so cool.

My last one was probably Marina Sirtis. I actually got to meet her and she is even more beautiful (and very nice) in person.

[HarveyDarkey]

108. In fantasy life Bridget Bardot

In real life, Marsha Sandberg (no photo available).

[Brother Buzz]

109. Penny, Sky King's niece

[alfredo]

181. The second picture reminds me of Laurie Anderson.

[OnlinePoker]

110. Gretchen Corbett

Beth Davenport from Rockford Files. After that, Lindsay Wagner, the Bionic Woman. Both smart, capable women.

[emmadoggy]

111. Hmmm..

Lee Majors, Bill Bixby, Michael Landon, Erik Estrada, Richard Chamberlain, John Ritter...

[Skittles]

112. Mick Taylor

yes INDEED

[Tabasco_Dave]

114. Susan Dey

[derby378]

115. Barbara Eden

I was addicted to I Dream of Jeannie. Go ahead and laugh...

[AtheistCrusader]

147. Laugh?

She's 78 and she's STILL beautiful.

[radiclib]

116. The Girl From UNCLE

Yeah, baby!

[GOPonziconz]

117. Little Joe from Bonanza, Michael Landon!

[zorro1]

118. Olivia Newton John

I watched "Grease" as a young boy and absolutely fell head over heals when she came out on stage with the shinny black leather suit. I really liked her as Sandra Dee but...yea I have to say she was the one, hey hey hey, the one that I want...lol

[Sancho]

119. Ann Margaret!

She was too much in Viva Las Vegas!

[avebury]

125. David McCallum when he was on Man From U.N.C.L.E. nt

[Crunchy Frog]

126. Billy Jack.

[Ready4Change]

127. Many

Amongst them were:

Purple haired girls on Shadows moon base:


Or the ladies on SkyDiver:


Or Leslie Parrish, from a Star Trek episode names "Who Mourns for Adonis?":

(How did that dress stay up?)

And then, when I actually hit puberty, I moved from ladies in Science Fiction to WKRP in Cincinnati, and Bailey Quarters:


After her, well, only a woman I could meet in real life would do.

[TrollBuster9090]

158. As a kid, I used to watch UFO on a crappy little B&W TV set, and I think I ruined my eyes trying to

see nipples through those Skydiver fishnet uniforms on the girls. It was a real let down when I grew up, got a color TV, and saw that they were wearing fleshtone bras underneath!

So, have you seen Gabrielle Drake (Lt. Ellis) in Au Pair Girls? Not to be missed!

[BootinUp]

129. Cheryl Ladd nt

[OnyxCollie]

130. Princess from "Battle of the Planets."

I was eight and Princess was a cartoon.

[csziggy]

132. Illya Kuryakin

I still think David McCallum is hot even if he is now too old for me.

Davy Jones, too - mostly because he had been a jockey before he became a Monkee.

[datasuspect]

136. penelope pitstop

[DCKit]

159. Race Bannon! (Johnny Quest).

Even at five I guess I had a good idea of what was really going on there.

[Art_from_Ark]

205. Adult Swim had a great parody of the Race Bannon/Dr. Quest relationship

[MrModerate]

137. Kim Darby . . .

And no, I don't know why.

[Chan790]

138. I'd answer your question, but people already think I'm too cool.

Oh ok...I had a mad crush on:


Kathleen Hanna

Given I wasn't a child but I didn't discover women until I was nearly out of middle school. I just knew she kicked ass, then it kinda dawned on me that she was also really cute. I'm aware that is in some sense ironically totally-contrary to what she stands for.

[bayareaboy]

139. My first was my second grade teacher, Ms snodgrass ...

When I got over that it was Joan Baez, 260 0f us went to jail that day, but I did it all for Joan.

[MannyGoldstein]

140. Debbie Harry

Ah.

[blueamy66]

142. Steve Perry....who I still crush on....

Shaun Cassidy, Donny and Jimmy Osmond....loved Davy Jones too!!!!!

[rocktivity]

143. Since February 9, 1964

rocktivity

[DaDeacon]

144. Yvonne Craig ...TV's Batgirl.

yeah full geek!

[KT2000]

145. Dr. Kildare

and then Ilya Kuriakan.

[TrollBuster9090]

148. Adrienne Barbeau! And...

...no, there is nothing "mockable" about it!

[Zeteticus]

160. Barbara Eden

Man alive!

[notadmblnd]

162. Mark, the Rifleman's son

[catbyte]

163. David Cassidy from the Partridge Family

And I was the only one of my friends who thought Bobby Sherman was gross.





Diane
Anishinaabe in MI & mom to Taz, Nigel, and baby brother Sammy, members of Dogs Against Romney, Cat Division
"Dogs Aren’t Luggage--HISS!”

[Arugula Latte]

170. Same here. David = cute & groovy, Bobby = gross.

[MiddleFingerMom]

165. 2nd grade, Steve K. and I both had a crush on our lovely classmate, Cheryl Z.

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We formed playground "gangs". Our main means of confrontation were monkeybar fights...
until someone accidentally got pushed down some stairs on the outside of the building.
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A S.W.A.T. team of nuns raided the playground and immediately convinced us that THEIR
gangsta ways were MUCH more badass than OUR gangsta ways.
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In hindsight... she was worth it.
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First celebrity crush?
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Barbara Eden (who looked very much like our lovely classmate, Cheryl Z.).
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[Mapletonian]

167. Susan Cowsill NT

[Genghis_Sean]

168. My crushes...

The first time I was ever interested in a girl, I was probably seven or eight and I liked the little girl on Return to Witch Mountain.



Around nine or ten, Catherine Bach of The Dukes of Hazard triggered the early onset of puberty for me.



Finally, around middle school, it was Pat Benatar.



In adulthood, I've always been partial to Annette Bening, but during the London Olympics, I couldn't stop looking at Allyson Felix.

[alfredo]

183. +1 for Allyson Felix

[davidpdx]

171. She's still as beautiful as she was back in the 80's. On August 31st she'll be 42.

I met her in 1997 and have a photo of the two of us standing together.

[Odd Won Out]

172. Susan Dey in the Partidge Family

The Mom was pretty hot too, but she was old enough to be... well... my Mom. I have issues...

[u4ic]

173. Scott Baio

My bedroom walls were plastered with pictures from him from Teen magazine, 16, etc.

Gack. Do not see the appeal now of him back then...or now for that matter. What a freak he turned into.

[Xipe Totec]

175. Marisol

[scorpiogirl]

176. Ricky Schroder

He covered my bedroom walls when I was 12.

[mucifer]

178. Barry Manilow and Tom Baker

[Silver Swan]

179. Tony Dow

who played Wally, Beaver's brother on "Leave It to Beaver."

[Blue_In_AK]

203. I liked him, too.

Also Ricky Nelson. Ah, those eyes...

[geardaddy]

182. Her

[Kingofalldems]

187. Minnie Pearl

Yep

[LynneSin]

188. Really? And people mocked me for Horshack

[Onlooker]

189. Illya Kuryakin

Also, Art Garfunkel and Barry Evans





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[zen_bohemian]

192. Carl and Dennis Wilson (Beach Boys)

with a nod to Andy Gibb......I have a thing for musicians, what can I say?:

[Robyn66]

193. My crushes

Davy Jones and Shaun Cassidy then John Schneider ahh Tiger Beat memories!!

[Ben_Caxton]

195. Marina Sirtis... a.k.a. Counselor Troi...

Among others...

[We are Devo]

196. Peter Falk/Columbo n/t

[mvd]

197. I love threads like this

Molly Ringwald and Debbie Gibson were my big ones. Bought every Deborah Gibson CD and was in awe when I went to a concert of hers.

I have more crushes now, believe it or not. They include Kaley Cuoco, Zooey Deschanel, Sharon Case, Yvonne Zima, A Fine Frenzy, Michelle Branch, Amber Tamblyn, Kelly Ogden, Salma Hayek, Ashley Greene, Adrienne Frantz, etc.

[rbnyc]

199. Prince Planet!

[Blue_In_AK]

200. Dion diMucci

I'm old.

[Locut0s]

202. One of my elementary school teachers, another girl in class in HS, can't remember a celeb crush. nt.

[Art_from_Ark]

207. Mrs. Peel, Catwoman (original Batman series), Jeannie, Agent 99

Purple-haired ladies on UFO
Nanny (Juliet Mills-- Nanny and the Professor)
Karen Valentine (Room 222)

[Sedona]

208. Who ARE those guys?

[Monk06]

209. Diana Rigg