Teenaged celebrity crushes: Name them (and don't be afraid to share the weird ones)

[Bucky]

Okay, it was the usual for a kid who hit adolescence in the Ford administration--Kristy MacNicol, Jacqueline Smith, Anne Lockhart (from the 70s Battlestar Gallactica series)--but weirdness in celebrity crushes cannot be explained, only enumerated... At some point in 1978 I had a crush on Joan Rivers.

Don't ask for details; it's painful to recall.

[Mollis]

1. Hmmm

Johnny Depp (duh...lol), Heath Ledger, Alton Brown <3, Jared Leto, Chris Marquette, Hugh Laurie

On edit: Lee Pace! I can't forget him.

[Droopy]

2. Demi Moore, Susan Sarandon (not sure about the spelling)

I literally can't think of anyone else weird or otherwise. I was probably too busy trying not to sprout a boner in school and then coming home and releasing my angst, so to speak.

[Indi Guy]

3. I used to think that Mary Lincoln was hot..

...before she started selling he clothes (after her husband was assassinated). :P

[Droopy]

4. That old, eh?

[enigmatic]

5. Barbi Benton

[billyskank]

7. I'm not seeing anything weird about that.

[Broken_Hero]

6. Kathleen Turner, Katey Sagel, and Kim Cattrall. Edit...Again!

almost forgot, Kirstie Alley.

And I almost forgot this one, Ms. Eve Tescmacher, aka Valerie Perrine.

[Lyric]

8. Jordan Knight, from Kew Kids on the Block

I wasn't exactly a teenager yet, but I loooooved him. My friend Kylie and I used to sit around together on the playground after school and make up elaborate stories about what our lives would be like when I married Jordan and she married Donnie Wahlberg, lol.

[LostinVA]

9. Jodie Foster and Pamela Sue Martin

[NewJeffCT]

10. Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman

Though, I probably shared my crush with millions of guys around my age... and some women, too.

[mikeargo]

11. The usual...

Valerie Bertinelli, Linda Blair (when she wasn't throwing up), Kristy MacNicol, several Playboy Playmates, and for my "weird" one...Patti Deutsch from "Laugh in" (something about redheads).

[carlyhippy]

12. The men of Tiger Beat.......

Shaun Cassidy, Leif Garret, Andy Gibb Magically Babelicious, Babemajora,


Whew! I forgot how HOT Andy Gibb was....
Then the older men:
Don Johnson and Al Pacino.....

[Beaverhausen]

16. I liked Shaun's older brother David something fierce!

I loved that magazine!

[AwakeAtLast]

17. My sister and I also had it bad for Donny Osmond

[astral]

13. Well, Neil Diamond For Shure . . . .

And I kinda liked Bruce Lee and . . . Charles Bronson, yep! and I kinda liked Elvis but not like other people did. Hard to remember, actually. I guess I had a crush on my BF.

[Stuart G]

14. I liked Haley Milles...Parent Trap..

[HEyHEY]

15. Drew Barrymore

[Rhythm]

18. An assortment of goth crushes from my teen years...

Peter Murphy (Bauhaus)


David Vanien (The Damned)


Patricia Morrison (Gun Club, The Sisters of Mercy)


Carl McCoy (Fields of the Nephilim)

[Radical Activist]

19. In my early teenage years I had stereotypical one

Later it was Winona Ryder, Claire Danes, and Jennifer Connelly.

[skygazer]

20. Harrison Ford in the first Star Wars movie

I was 16. All my girlfriends were oohing and ahhing over Mark Hamill and I just said, "I want the other one." :9

On the embarrassing side was Peter Frampton. :blush:

[Skittles]

21. Mick Taylor (Stones)

[JCMach1]

22. Annie Lennox, Grace Jones

Sorry, had a thing for butch chicks...

[Quantess]

23. Duran Duran!

Simon was my favorite! They were all cute.

[soleiri]

42. Simon was my future husband at 12 yrs old

I would have preferred John, but my best friend Kim already chose him as her future husband.

[Robeson]

24. I had a big crush on Barbara Streisand after watching....

...What's Up, Doc? Big time crush.

[jberryhill]

39. Years after that movie came out...

I was staying at the Hilton in San Francisco when I suddenly realized upon riding the escalators at the south end of the building that hotel was the location for much of the film.

"Yes, Eunice."

[jberryhill]

25. Ahh... just for you....

Tatum O'Neill and Kristy McNichol:



What, no Farah Fawcett poster in your room?

[regnaD kciN]

29. Ah, yes..."Little Darlings"...

"It's a contest...first one to lose her virginity wins!"

Who came up with movie concepts like that? Were they aiming for the all-important dirty old man demographic?

[jberryhill]

33. As a dirty old man, I can say authoritatively....

...it was more interesting to a horny teenager.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

26. Wynona Ryder

like any good alternative rock/misfit type boy of the early 90s did



and I always thought Natalie Merchant was a dream

[MrSlayer]

27. Heather Thomas, Blondie, Phoebe Cates

[Inspired]

28. David Cassidy

There was also this actor named Sajid Khan who I had a little crush on.

[raccoon]

30. James Dean. nt

[MorningGlow]

31. As a little kid...

David Cassidy and Donny Osmond.

As a preteen, Shaun Cassidy and Andy Gibb.

As a teenager, George Harrison (I discovered the Beatles late). Weird ones: Eric Idle, Robert Palmer, Adam Ant.

[mopinko]

32. peter blair dennis bernard noone

herman's hermits. that was the poster on the back of the door, where nothing was going to get in the way of it. kissed it many times. (and thought his eyes really were that blue. what did i know from airbrush?)

[MillieJo]

34. Rob Lowe, John Taylor (Duran Duran), Tony Hadley (Spamdau Ballet)

Kenny Dalglesh (Liverpool FC), Bruce Springsteen (Dancing In The Dark video), Boris Becker, Mats Wilander

[Lady President]

36. Boris Becker-- me too!

Wow, I did not think anyone else had a crush on him. He grew up to be pretty too....

[Bill McBlueState]

35. Leah Thompson

The challenging part was to watch Caroline in the City every week without seeming *too* interested in it, since the show was for the most part horrible.

[driver8]

37. Ha Ha -- she was (is) one of my crushes, too!

The comment regarding Caroline In the City is right on!

The show sucked, but Lea Thompson looked great!

[BurtWorm]

38. Natalie Wood.

From the network premiere of West Side Story in about 1972 throughout high school.


And Mary Tyler Moore. From when I was a wee, wee laddie.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

40. Helen Hunt in "Project X" -- teen-o-licious!

I was no longer a teen myself at the time, but what the hell. Hm, neither was she. But damn, she was

Brazilian: Norma Blum, TV actress.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

41. Valerie Bertinelli

[Mad_Dem_X]

43. My weirdest one:

Jeff Lynne of ELO. I was in love with his voice, and I thought he was the greatest songwriter ever.

[edbermac]

44. Barbara Eden

[Burma Jones]

45. Teri Garr, Carol Cleveland, Linda Blair

I like 'em funny.....or puking pea soup....