# 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:** 8
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/257367/141 "2004-08-09T18:22:19Z")
Martha Stewart was seriously FINE forty years ago and still looks awfully good for a woman her age. I’m often confused by the women who are portrayed as “homely” in movies and TV. I compare them with women I know and they usually come up pretty favorably. ---
**Author:** ![furt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/439d5e/32.png) [@furt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furt)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/257367/142 "2004-08-09T18:53:50Z")
God forgive me … Cheri Oteri. ---
**Author:** ![Agrippina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@Agrippina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agrippina)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/257367/143 "2004-08-09T18:59:06Z")
**Jeremy Brett**. In the 1980s, he played Sherlock Holmes in a Granada-made TV series. In my opinion, THE best Sherlock Holmes EVER. I also find him rather handsome. ---
**Author:** ![murky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9d8465/32.png) [@murky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/murky)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/257367/144 "2004-08-09T19:06:51Z")
My crush on Drew Carey defies explanation. Actually it doesn’t - he’s funny, self-depracating and seems sweet. Except for that dating strippers thing. But I bet the strippers think he’s sweet too. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2004, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/257367/145 "2004-12-22T22:52:35Z")
> [@Cluricaun](#): > > Paige from Trading Spaces on TLC. My friends think I’m nuts, but that woman could light cigarettes off her smile it’s so damn hot. You might find [this](http://www.salon.com/ent/col/fix/2004/12/22/wed/) interesting then: > [@](#): > > Who feels pretty? According to several postings on a Web site called the Celebrity Nudity Database, “Trading Spaces” host Paige Davis – or someone who looks a lot like her – appears in a homemade sex tape circa 1997 that’s making its way to a Web site near you. One poster reports, “What I’ve seen is a brief clip of her in the shower, shaving her legs and pubic area while singing ‘I Feel Pretty.’ Her body is incredible. She clearly works out and has no tanline around her breasts. Her pubes are totally shaved.” ([CNDB.com](http://CNDB.com) via Lloyd Grove’s Lowdown) :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Gadfly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/aeb1de/32.png) [@Gadfly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadfly)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2004, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/257367/146 "2004-12-22T23:49:05Z")
> [@Rhiannon8404](#): > > \*\* [Steven Tyler](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0878911/)\*\*, I cannot look away from him. If he’s on TV I’m just mesmerized. I don’t know what it is. He’s not pretty by any means. But OMG, there’s something about him… [Yeah, that is a little strange.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=5629699&postcount=70) ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2004, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/257367/147 "2004-12-23T00:15:11Z")
Reading this thread down, it strikes me that the man-attracted more often find someone Strangely Attractive than the woman-attracted. FWIW…:dubious: Women I find SA: Carly Fiorina, CEO, Hewlett-Packard Corp. Chris Witty, Olympic speedskater/cyclist Jane Arraf, CNN Baghdad bureau chief Joy Behar, comedienne/panelist _(The View)_ Allison Janney, actress _(The West Wing)_ Jane Kaczmarek, actress _(Malcolm in the Middle)_ Harriet Sansom Harris, actress (“Bebe” on _Frasier_) (BTW, I once saw a TV version of the play _The Man Who Came to Dinner_ where Ms. Sansom Harris actually played the love interest.) ---
**Author:** ![Dark\_Side\_of\_the\_Floyd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bb73d2/32.png) [@Dark\_Side\_of\_the\_Floyd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dark_Side_of_the_Floyd)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2004, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/257367/148 "2004-12-23T01:03:09Z")
**David. Hyde. Pierce.** ---
**Author:** ![ErinPuff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dbc845/32.png) [@ErinPuff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ErinPuff)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2004, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/257367/149 "2004-12-23T01:16:32Z")
> [@Beware of Doug](#): > > Allison Janney, actress _(The West Wing)_ Oh, definitely Allison Janney. ---
**Author:** ![Odinoneeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@Odinoneeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odinoneeye)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2004, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/257367/150 "2004-12-23T02:01:44Z")
Sarah Silverman Especially in the cop uniform from Say It Isn’t So ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2004, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/257367/151 "2004-12-23T03:14:59Z")
> [@look!ninjas](#): > > someone to make out with _and_ watch kung fu movies with! Sign me up, baby. So how _you_ doin’? 😉 Okay, here’s mine (not counting Bonnie Hunt, Tina Fey, and Beth Littleford): -Megan Mullally -Rachael Harris (from _The Daily Show_ and _I Love the_ stuff on VH1) -Not **Sara Rue** , who was already mentioned. But the girl who reminds me of her. She was on **Drew Carey** (the show, that is), playing his girlfriend for a while. She was a redhead, and she was a plumber (?). She also now does the commercials for one of the dollar stores. -Also, since I’m an old (almost 32) skeez, let me thank your God that [Jena Malone](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0540441/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnxteD0yMHxzZz0xfGxtPTIwMHx0dD1vbnxwbj0wfHE9amVuYSBtYWxvbmV8aHRtbD0xfG5tPW9u;fc=1;ft=12) is over 18. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2004, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/257367/152 "2004-12-23T03:20:14Z")
Shelly Duvall. No, really. She has an interesting face. I didn’t read the thread, just CNTL-F’d to see if Duvall was mentioned. In the process I saw that someone mentioned Paige Davis from _Trading Spaces_. Aye. 🙂 And Cathy Rogers from _Junkyard Wars_. Nice face, nice bod, nice accent. ---
**Author:** ![pokey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ebca7d/32.png) [@pokey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pokey)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2004, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/257367/153 "2004-12-23T03:47:21Z")
I’m strangely attracted to Jack Black. And Henry Rollins and Missy Elliott. And Al Franken ??? Who can understand amour? ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2004, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/257367/154 "2004-12-23T04:32:43Z")
Fran Drescher just DRIPS sex. I can’t stand her sitcom The Nanny, but I have been known to linger on the reruns just when she’s on screen. Even her horrible nasal accent (which is fake) turns me on coming out of her mouth! Tina Fey is sexy as hell, no surprise there, but I’m also very attracted to her SNL Weekend Update co-anchor Amy Poehler. She always looks so MISCHIEVIOUS! Stand-up comedienne Wendy Liebman, who has awesome timing and delivery. Jessi Klein, super-cute talking head on VH1’s Best Week Ever. Actually, she’s adorable in a Lisa Loeb sort of way (glasses! :p) and sarcastic to boot, so I can’t see my attraction being “strange.” I also think Allison Janney from The West Wing is very sexy, confident and self-assured and quite attractive. ---
**Author:** ![roger\_thornhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@roger\_thornhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roger_thornhill)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2004, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/257367/155 "2004-12-23T04:45:39Z")
We used to get a programme here called The Wall Street Journal Report (or something like that), which didn’t interest me much but was fronted by this incredibly assertive older woman type called Consuelo Mack. She signed off each week by saying “Have a good week, and make it a productive one”. I used to get a frisson as she said this, and though I’ve never been into domination, it did get me to thinking about experimenting. Week after week, I would tune in, after another unproductive stint at the office. By the end of the series I was fuelled to almost Bacchanalian levels of frenzied guilt. ---
**Author:** ![shy\_guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a6a055/32.png) [@shy\_guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shy_guy)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2004, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/257367/156 "2004-12-23T05:21:05Z")
> [@](#): > > And Henry Rollins It’s strange to find Henry Rollins attractive? I had no idea. I think he’s _ridiculously hot_. ---
**Author:** ![SolGrundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@SolGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolGrundy)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2004, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/257367/157 "2004-12-23T07:05:42Z")
> [@SolGrundy](#): > > I was just watching an [adult swim] promo. Now I’ve got a weird thing for [Andy Merrill](http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/440/440886p1.html) and [mc chris](http://www.mcchris.com/). That’s just not kosher. I gots to either get a boyfriend or stop watching so much TV. Hmm, apparently that didn’t work, since I’ve done both. And I was just watching a trailer for _Return of the King_ and was reminded of my weird fascination with [Bernard Hill](http://www.lordoftherings.net/film/cast/ca_bhill.html) from that movie (and only from that movie). ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2004, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/257367/158 "2004-12-23T07:16:34Z")
> [@Misnomer](#): > > Oh man, I just remembered another one: [John Hannah](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001314/). He’s a biggie. Definitely. Quite possibly bigger than anyone else I’ve mentioned. Wow, I can’t believe I didn’t think of him until now! > > (Among other things, he was Jonathan in the _Mummy_ movies and James – the ‘alternate reality’ love interest – in _Sliding Doors_.) I am so in love with John Hannah that it’s not even funny. He’s the hottest hot thing that ever came to hot town. I cry out in despair, “Why isn’t John Hannah on my TV every day?” The other day, I sat through Four Weddings and Funeral just to see him. I might rent Sliding Doors and the Mummy–two movies I have never seen and have no interest in–just to see him some more. I’m considering buying **Pandaemonium** even though that movie was so completely awful and inaccurate that it made my eyes bleed (Oh, Wordsworth! What did that do to you?) just because he was supa-hot as Mr. Wordsworth. Totally wrong and just so totally wrong but hot. I’ve been watching **Rebus** on BBC America and stupidly didn’t record it, and of course, it’s not on DVD. Man, if anybody could hook me up with a copy, I think I would be their slave. ---
**Author:** ![hlanelee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3bc359/32.png) [@hlanelee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hlanelee)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2004, 8:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/257367/159 "2004-12-23T08:08:06Z")
I think **Ellen deGeneres** is really good looking, hot even, and funny, too. I really, really wish that I did not know that she is a lesbian. I would never have a chance with a woman like that even if she were straight. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2004, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/257367/160 "2004-12-23T08:10:35Z")
> [@Big Bad Voodoo Lou](#): > > Tina Fey is sexy as hell, no surprise there, but I’m also very attracted to her SNL Weekend Update co-anchor Amy Poehler. She always looks so MISCHIEVIOUS! I thought that she went without saying (Amy Poehler), which is why I didn’t mention her. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/257367.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/257367.md?page=9)