# 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:** 9
**Author:** ![Chanteuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de053/32.png) [@Chanteuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chanteuse)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2004, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/257367/161 "2004-12-23T14:42:39Z")
> [@Granuaile](#): > > **Alan Rickman** ~Snape > **John Hannah** ~Sliding Doors > **Mark Addy** ~The Full Monty > **Robert Carlyle** ~The Full Monty I am _so_ with you on these, although I’ve never seen _Snape_ (I fell in love with AR in _Sense and Sensibility_). The _Full Monty_ was freakin’ hilarious and Mark Addy was my favorite. I, for one, found nothing at all wrong with his looks in _any_ way! ---
**Author:** ![Lisa-go-Blind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Lisa-go-Blind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lisa-go-Blind)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2004, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/257367/162 "2004-12-23T15:05:26Z")
> [@pepperlandgirl](#): > > 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. _Sliding Doors_ is actually really good. It’s the movie that made me discover the hotness of John Hannah. I’d seen _Four Weddings_ before, but I guess I just didn’t notice (!). Then again, I actually like _Four Weddings_ so YMMV (though sometimes I’ll skip ahead to the scene where Matthew’s speechifying). Don’t forget _The Hurricane_ either, though once is enough for that one. ---
**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, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/257367/163 "2004-12-23T15:31:43Z")
> [@hlanelee](#): > > 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. Ditto. I like her face. ---
**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, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/257367/164 "2004-12-23T15:39:44Z")
> [@Chanteuse](#): > > I am _so_ with you on these, although I’ve never seen _Snape_ (I fell in love with AR in _Sense and Sensibility_). I assume the previous poster meant Alan Rickman PLAYED Snape in the Harry Potter movies. Every woman I talk to thinks he’s sexy as hell (not only the actor, but also the character). What an unlikely sex symbol! ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2004, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/257367/165 "2004-12-23T16:49:31Z")
The key word here is “strangely.” Sometimes I think Mary (“Eating Raoul”) Woronov is the most exotically beautiful women I’ve ever seen. And sometimes, I find her absolutely hideous. She’s frequently BOTH in the same movie!!! No woman has ever turned me on and off and on and off so quickly in such rapid succession! ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2004, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/257367/166 "2004-12-23T18:00:19Z")
**Conan O’Brien**. :o ---
**Author:** ![down\_by\_law](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/65b543/32.png) [@down\_by\_law](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/down_by_law)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2004, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/257367/167 "2004-12-23T18:34:18Z")
almost every woman mentioned in this thread is conventionally pretty. how can someone say they’re strangely attracted to sara silverman? she’s fucking hot! i can’t really think of any women i find “strangely” attractive. it’s like having a “guilty” pleasure. i just don’t get it. but one woman who kind of wierds me out is rachel wiesz. she can be super hot one second, and then sort of manly the next. same with paz vega. i saw “the other side of the bed” on ifc or sundance the other night and was mesmerized by her. so i looked her up on the internet, having never heard of her before, and none of the pictues looked remotely the same. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Crunchy\_Crunch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Captain\_Crunchy\_Crunch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Crunchy_Crunch)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2004, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/257367/168 "2004-12-23T19:36:55Z")
Heck, I’ve got you all beat. [Roseanne Barr](http://www.roseanneworld.com/media/) and [Martha Plimpton](http://www.imdb.com/gallery/granitz/1083/wi20010301_MarthaPlimpton_Granitz_153572.jpg?path=pgallery&path_key=Plimpton,%20Martha) Mmmmm ---
**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, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/257367/169 "2004-12-23T20:17:44Z")
Ya know, **Cap** , I used to be in a comedy group with a girl that looked A LOT like Martha Plaimpton. Since I lusted after Amanda, I guess I lusted after Martha by extension. ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2004, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/257367/170 "2004-12-23T21:04:21Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > Helen Mirren. There’s nout strange about finding Helen Mirren attractive. Now Kathy Burke (Waynetta Slob) and Victoria Wood are my strangely attractive celebrities ---
**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, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/257367/171 "2004-12-23T21:06:09Z")
> [@Lisa-go-Blind](#): > > _Sliding Doors_ is actually really good. It’s the movie that made me discover the hotness of John Hannah. I’d seen _Four Weddings_ before, but I guess I just didn’t notice (!). Then again, I actually like _Four Weddings_ so YMMV (though sometimes I’ll skip ahead to the scene where Matthew’s speechifying). Don’t forget _The Hurricane_ either, though once is enough for that one. Heh, I didn’t know he was in _The Hurricane_. Guess I better add all of these movies to my Netflix queue. ---
**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 26, 2004, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/257367/172 "2004-12-26T21:40:53Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > Sometimes I think Mary (“Eating Raoul”) Woronov is the most exotically beautiful women I’ve ever seen. And sometimes, I find her absolutely hideous. That face is unforgettable. Sometimes she reminds me of Christiane Amanpour from CNN. (I watch entirely too much CNN.) Try as I might, I can’t resist Lili Taylor, even though she can go from sexy to troglodyte-ish in a single role. Valarie Mahaffey, a pale, skinny, frazzled-looking comic actress with a voice like a five-alarm toothache, used to elicit in me a bizarre mixture of lust and revulsion. Yet I nurtured unashamedly carnal feelings for SNL’s gangly squinty-eyed simpering dumbbell, Mary Gross. TV decorator gal Lynette Jennings also got my motor running for awhile, although last time I saw her she’d pretty much turned into Tyne Daly. ---
**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 26, 2004, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/257367/173 "2004-12-26T21:49:56Z")
Must add another one who _really_ pulls me both ways: Italian tennis player Francesca Schiavone. Sleek body, hard rippling legs, pulled-back brown ponytail, and a face that is either classically Italian or crudely reptilian, or probably some of both. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2004, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/257367/174 "2004-12-26T21:52:16Z")
Samantha Bee from _The Daily Show._ Amy Poehler’s supposed to be the sexiest chick on _Saturday Night Live_ right now. I’d **go** with Amy, but I’d be thinking of Tina Fey! Love that brainy-bony-classy-sassy look she has! GGRRROOOWWWLLLL! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_in\_second\_hand\_clothing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9d8465/32.png) [@wolf\_in\_second\_hand\_clothing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_in_second_hand_clothing)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2004, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/257367/175 "2004-12-26T22:07:58Z")
these ones are just obscure and none of my 19 year old peers know who I’m talking about: [Maria Bartiromo](http://www.bartiromo.com/) and [Rachael Ray](http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/rachael_ray/article/0%2C1974%2CFOOD_9928_1702057%2C00.html) ---
**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 26, 2004, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/257367/176 "2004-12-26T22:57:09Z")
> [@wolf in second hand clothing](#): > > these ones are just obscure and none of my 19 year old peers know who I’m talking about: > > [Maria Bartiromo](http://www.bartiromo.com/) > > and > > [Rachael Ray](http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/rachael_ray/article/0%2C1974%2CFOOD_9928_1702057%2C00.html) I’m the biggest Rachael Ray fan on the SDMB, my young friend! She is quite a tasty dish, I must say! ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2004, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/257367/177 "2004-12-26T23:21:17Z")
Well I haven’t read through this whole thread, but put me down for: Hugo Weaving (come on, Agent Smith is _hot_, people!!) Alan Rickman (that voice!) Kevin Spacey (smart, snarky, and sexy: a nice combination) John Hannah (see his version of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde) Hmm, seems there’s something compelling about all those guys who play the baddies in films. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2004, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/257367/178 "2004-12-27T04:37:46Z")
> [@pepperlandgirl](#): > > 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. As **Lisa-go-Blind** mentioned, _Sliding Doors_ is definitely worth it; I am not a big fan of Gwyneth Paltrow, but the story is good enough and John Hannah in this movie is to _die_ for. _The Mummy_ is worth it in an “any chance to see John Hannah” way – and it’s good if you like Brendan Fraser, which I kind of do. Hannah’s character is not attractive at all (IMO), but it’s an ok action/fantasy flick. > [@](#): > > _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._ I made the same amazingly stupid mistake: I didn’t tape any of the _Rebus_ airings (though I watched them all) _or_ his _Jekyll & Hyde_ (which **Eyebrows of Doom** rightly praises). :smack: I cancelled my digital cable a while back and haven’t been able to get BBC America ever since: is _Rebus_ being shown now? I have a friend who gets that channel _and_ has TiVo, and I’m wondering if I could get him to record it and then dub it to a tape for me . . . can’t tell him how much I want it, though, or I’d owe him for the rest of his life. 😉 It’s nice to come across other Hannah fans, btw: so few of my friends even know who he is, let alone have the ability to understand my lust for him. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![carlb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carlb/32/5930_2.png) [@carlb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carlb)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2004, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/257367/179 "2004-12-27T15:05:15Z")
> [@](#): > > Samantha Bee from The Daily Show. She’s probably tops on my list of, “strangely attractive.” There are plenty of women I find attractive that do not pop up on most men’s radar, but that most people would agree are, indeed, attractive. Julia Louis-Dreyfus comes to mind (and she’s rich 🙂 !). But there is nothing on the surface that would characterize Samantha Bee as attractive. She just is. ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2004, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/257367/180 "2004-12-27T20:44:21Z")
> [@Big Bad Voodoo Lou](#): > > I’m the biggest Rachael Ray fan on the SDMB, my young friend! She is quite a tasty dish, I must say! And she’ll encourage you to get it done in 30 minutes! 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/257367.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/257367.md?page=10)