# Celebrities you find strangely attractive **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 29, 2004, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/257367 "2004-07-29T02:22:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2004, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/257367/1 "2004-07-29T02:22:53Z")
What celebrities do you have an inexplicable, almost embarrasing, unspoken attraction to? I will start and say that for some unfathomable reason, I find something damnably sexually alluring about…[ahem]…Martha Stewart. It’s just a weird vibe that I can’t explain. Ok, I went first. Now please don’t leave me hanging. I promise there will be no laughing or mockery here. Who are you weirdly attracted to? ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2004, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/257367/2 "2004-07-29T02:26:46Z")
Benicio del Toro Steve Bucemi Billy Bob Thorton. I don’t know what it is about this guy, but he has it in spades. ---
**Author:** ![Burrido](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Burrido](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Burrido)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2004, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/257367/3 "2004-07-29T02:33:33Z")
Minnie Driver (Certain Angles) Dr. Pat from Joe Schmo ---
**Author:** ![AwSnappity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a3d4f5/32.png) [@AwSnappity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AwSnappity)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2004, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/257367/4 "2004-07-29T02:46:17Z")
Elijah Wood Billy Boyd Dominic Monaghan (okay, I have a thing for the hobbits…so what?) Adrian Brody ---
**Author:** ![SolGrundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@SolGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolGrundy)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2004, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/257367/5 "2004-07-29T03:18:41Z")
I want to remind everyone of the “no laughing or mockery” rule from the OP, before I reveal: John Aboud from “Best Week Ever.” (He’s the dark-haired Modern Humorist guy.) Can’t explain it. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2004, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/257367/6 "2004-07-29T03:22:27Z")
Anna Paquin. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2004, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/257367/7 "2004-07-29T03:45:35Z")
In the same column as Martha Stewart: [Judy Woodruff](http://www.phototour.minneapolis.mn.us/pics/2489.jpg). [Molly Price](http://www.geocities.com/fernberg2003/snowblindfaith.jpg). Grrrwl. [Cathy Jones](http://www.klixpix.com/personalities/television/s_Cathy_Jones.jpg). Funny is sexy. Sexy is sexy, too. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2004, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/257367/8 "2004-07-29T03:51:35Z")
**Adrian Brody** is hot, hot, hot. I’d do him. ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2004, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/257367/9 "2004-07-29T04:01:15Z")
There’s nothing strange about Anna Paquin… My entry would have to be Diane Keaton. This is really only strange because she’s about 30 years older than me. ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2004, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/257367/10 "2004-07-29T04:02:16Z")
::whispers:: Ron White (stand-up comedian) ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2004, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/257367/11 "2004-07-29T04:03:45Z")
While I don’t know if “strangely attractive” fits, I would like to bend CBS’s Mika Brzezinski backwards over a bicycle rack. ---
**Author:** ![Nametag](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nametag/32/406_2.png) [@Nametag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nametag)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2004, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/257367/12 "2004-07-29T05:09:11Z")
Geena Davis. Rowwrr! ---
**Author:** ![picker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/picker/32/13969_2.png) [@picker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picker)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2004, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/257367/13 "2004-07-29T05:40:01Z")
[Janeane Garofolo](http://www.volny.cz/tom11/www.janeane_garofalo/odkazy/Images/garofal1.jpg) another vote for [Anna Paquin](http://www.celebrity-exchange.com/celebs/photos04/anna_paquin.jpg) [Beth Littleford](http://www.rickdorfman.com/Littleford4jpg.jpg), especially on the Daily Show [Alanis](http://freespace.virgin.net/slampiece.inc/5/images/alanis.jpg) and howzabout the delicious [Amber Benson](http://home.t-online.de/home/gremlin.berlin/Tara/tara013.jpg) and [Emma Caulfield](http://www.buffythevampireslayer.de/Anya/Emma19.jpg) from Buffy… ---
**Author:** ![dfqforever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dfqforever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dfqforever)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2004, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/257367/14 "2004-07-29T06:58:52Z")
I too find Billy Bob Thornton sexy in a scary kind of way. Also have the hots for: David Caruso (love his voice) Michael Moriarty (sp?) when he was on Law & Order Richard Belzer & Ice T from Law & Order SVU I can not believe I admitted to all this!! ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2004, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/257367/15 "2004-07-29T07:50:02Z")
Off to Café Society. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2004, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/257367/16 "2004-07-29T07:50:20Z")
Hillary Clinton, Dee Dee Myers _even more ashamedly_ together :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Cardinal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardinal/32/4000_2.png) [@Cardinal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardinal)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2004, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/257367/17 "2004-07-29T10:20:01Z")
There’s absolutely nothing weird about Janeane Garafolo. I’ve wondered for years why she isn’t more famous for her looks. I could live with that day and night. Remember that she is good looking enough to get cast as the romantic lead in an actual feature film, even if it went nowhere (The Matchmaker). ---
**Author:** ![PookahMacPhellimey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pookahmacphellimey/32/3175_2.png) [@PookahMacPhellimey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PookahMacPhellimey)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2004, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/257367/18 "2004-07-29T10:57:21Z")
Steve Buscemi, definetely. Derren Brown. James Gandolfini. Snoop Dogg. Marc Alaimo (It a DS9 thing. If you don’t know then I’m NOT explaining, but I find his character actually better looking than the actor. Which has got to count as weird.) And the strangest of all… Nigel Hawthorne (Also in character. The one he was most famour for, that is.) Look it up if you care! Also gets the nr 1 prize for being wildly impossible for various reasons. I think I have a thing for dubious characters. _blush_ ---
**Author:** ![iloverocknroll](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8c91f0/32.png) [@iloverocknroll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iloverocknroll)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2004, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/257367/19 "2004-07-29T12:17:13Z")
Craig T. Nelson James Taylor Bill Nye, The Science Guy I think I have a thing for quirky, skinny, balding men. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![SkeptiJess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea666f/32.png) [@SkeptiJess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkeptiJess)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2004, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/257367/20 "2004-07-29T12:32:46Z")
My two inexplicable crushes are notable for their contrast if nothing else. First: I have a real lech for Norm McDonald. I don’t know whether it’s the hair or the eyes or that obnoxious smirk on his face but I just wanna tear his clothes off and drag him into my lair. Also, Michael Shermer. I’d like to say that I lust him for his mind, but that isn’t really true. I’ve seen him on TV a couple of times and I own several of his books with pictures of him on the jackets and I just think he’s physically adorable… He looks like the type of guy who, if I met in a bar or something, I’d just want to jump on him and, well… tear his clothes off and drag him into my lair. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/257367.md?page=2)