# Celebrity hotties that aren't particularly hot **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 21, 2011, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-hotties-that-arent-particularly-hot/603661 "2011-11-21T17:28:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2011, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-hotties-that-arent-particularly-hot/603661/101 "2011-11-23T19:42:08Z")
> [@Krokodil](#): > > I get Alyson Hannigan. She’s what I’d call “believably gorgeous”: plain enough that you believe she’s the character she’s playing but pretty enough that you can’t look away from her. I would say Amy Adams falls squarely into this category. She’s a good looking woman for sure, but very very plain, exceptionally so even. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2011, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-hotties-that-arent-particularly-hot/603661/102 "2011-11-23T20:54:42Z")
> [@GovernmentMan](#): > > She’s homely brah. > > [http://robotceleb.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/taylor-swift-billboard-music-awards.jpg](http://robotceleb.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/taylor-swift-billboard-music-awards.jpg) > > From her videos and tv appearances, I’ve always thought she was really plain, and it wasn’t until I google image’d her that I realized how downright ugly she looks in most photos. Again, pig-face (which is more readily apparent when she was chubby like in her younger years) Still not getting the homely. Perhaps you have different standards. “Not achingly beautiful but still beautiful” /= homely. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2011, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-hotties-that-arent-particularly-hot/603661/103 "2011-11-23T21:03:56Z")
> [@Evil\_Captor](#): > > Still not getting the homely. Perhaps you have different standards. “Not achingly beautiful but still beautiful” /= homely. I hesitate to agree with my evil comrade, but I must. I am in no way a fan of young Miss Swift, and I think her legs and arms and spindly, but that’s quite a pleasant face. A great beauty? No. _Homely_? Far from it. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2011, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-hotties-that-arent-particularly-hot/603661/104 "2011-11-23T21:07:13Z")
> [@Ephemera](#): > > Jewel (and Summer) are cute. Gina (and Morena) are hot. Gina Torres doesn’t really do it for me, but the other three are all varying degrees of smokin’. But eye of the beholder, and all that; I don’t expect any two guys to be driven to drooling over the same woman. Oddly though, if there is someone who has the same taste in women that I do, it’s Joss Whedon. The lust-object quotient of his shows has been higher than I would have any reasonable right to expect. ---
**Author:** ![Jaledin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jaledin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaledin)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2011, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-hotties-that-arent-particularly-hot/603661/105 "2011-11-23T21:25:56Z")
Jenna Jameson Sasha (sp?) Grey (sp?) I could go out tonight, even in a small town like Portland, and find some dozens of women more fuckable. To weigh in on Willow’s partners: Tara was definitely hot, and I think her face was pretty adorable. Kennedy was totally on the ball as well. I’d do one at a time, but their personalities as characters were not all that great. Speaking of Eliza Dushku – she looked gross in Buffy. But I used to watch that “Tru Calling” just to get the old wifey in the mood for some hot bitch action (in my mind; in reality she usually just fell asleep, but that doesn’t stop a real man from PIV or, as well call it, equation thanks to Watt). +whatever to that Bradley Cooper – I’d look close to him if I lost twenty pounds and did my usual hairstyle [=lazy, just run a comb from my back pocket straight back]. I about muff-punched my own mother when I saw her for my Birthday last week and she said I looked like Nick Cage. I about punched in the dick some motherfucker (who owned a bar I played at, so I needed to be graceful) who said I looked like Donald Fagen. I bet there’s some male-attracted folks who think the Cage man is pretty handsome (WTF with the eyebrows, though? Even I got enough sense to use some tweezers). ---
**Author:** ![Mrs.Cake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/2acd7d/32.png) [@Mrs.Cake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mrs.Cake)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2011, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-hotties-that-arent-particularly-hot/603661/106 "2011-11-24T00:42:21Z")
Some oldies but goodies. I confess I never understood Mary Astor’s as an actress or a looker. I love _The Maltese Falcon_ and _The Prisoner of Zenda_ but she plays characters that are supposed to be jaw-droppingly gorgeous but the best she can muster is plain and emotionally disengaged. In the '20’s she was cute and had a classic round flapper face, but it did her no favors in the 30’s & 40’s. Likewise, Bette Davis, who had enough vereve and personality to convice you that looks had nothing to do with it, but in a movie like **Jezebel** , a little better looking would have helped push the illusion. ---
**Author:** ![GovernmentMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e9c0ed/32.png) [@GovernmentMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GovernmentMan)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2011, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-hotties-that-arent-particularly-hot/603661/107 "2011-11-24T01:30:15Z")
> [@Evil\_Captor](#): > > Still not getting the homely. Perhaps you have different standards. “Not achingly beautiful but still beautiful” /= homely. She’s not “still beautiful.” She’s ugly. Her face is off-putting. Someone messed up when they made it. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2011, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-hotties-that-arent-particularly-hot/603661/108 "2011-11-24T01:43:40Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > I would say Amy Adams falls squarely into this category. She’s a good looking woman for sure, but very very plain, exceptionally so even. I _vehemently_ disagree. Amy Adams has the _perfect_ “Irish Girl” face. Julianne Moore is another. No, it’s not just the red hair, though that’s part of it - it’s the facial features as well. There’s definitely a female “Irish” face. Drew Barrymore kind of has it too. ---
**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:** [November 24, 2011, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-hotties-that-arent-particularly-hot/603661/109 "2011-11-24T02:47:27Z")
Not really getting Kristen Wiig, either the sexy or the funny. Tina Fey was way more of both. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2011, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-hotties-that-arent-particularly-hot/603661/110 "2011-11-24T03:02:11Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > I would say Amy Adams falls squarely into this category. She’s a good looking woman for sure, but very very plain, exceptionally so even. Wow. I think Amy Adams is drop-dead gorgeous. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2011, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-hotties-that-arent-particularly-hot/603661/111 "2011-11-24T03:16:30Z")
> [@Jaledin](#): > > I about punched in the dick some motherfucker (who owned a bar I played at, so I needed to be graceful) who said I looked like Donald Fagen. That’s a compliment in my book. The guy looks weird, but it’s the best kind of weird. Fagen _personifies_ cool. ---
**Author:** ![China\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2011, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-hotties-that-arent-particularly-hot/603661/112 "2011-11-24T03:20:43Z")
Sorry if she’s been mentioned, but Lucy Liu is not attractive. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2011, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-hotties-that-arent-particularly-hot/603661/113 "2011-11-24T04:03:29Z")
> [@Shecky](#): > > Julia Stiles. Women go crazy over her. I just don’t see it. Pistols and coffee at dawn, suh! ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2011, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-hotties-that-arent-particularly-hot/603661/114 "2011-11-24T05:18:00Z")
> [@China\_Guy](#): > > Sorry if she’s been mentioned, but Lucy Liu is not attractive. I don’t know what bizarro-world you’re from but if you don’t want her I"LL sure as hell take her. Freckles, eyes and all. Yowza. ---
**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2011, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-hotties-that-arent-particularly-hot/603661/115 "2011-11-24T05:53:23Z")
Tom Cruise. He becomes more and more unattractive as his self-importance grows. ~VOW ---
**Author:** ![drastic\_quench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e36b37/32.png) [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2011, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-hotties-that-arent-particularly-hot/603661/116 "2011-11-24T08:04:12Z")
Summer Glau looks like she has a mild form of Down Syndrome. ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2011, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-hotties-that-arent-particularly-hot/603661/117 "2011-11-24T08:05:38Z")
> [@G0sp3l](#): > > I don’t know what bizarro-world you’re from but if you don’t want her I"LL sure as hell take her. Freckles, eyes and all. Yowza. Freckles aren’t the problem. It’s her weird eye that creeps me out. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2011, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-hotties-that-arent-particularly-hot/603661/118 "2011-11-24T23:56:01Z")
> [@drastic\_quench](#): > > Summer Glau looks like she has a mild form of Down Syndrome. I wouldn’t go that far, but I really don’t get all the fanboy lust for Summer Glau. She was by far the least attractive woman on _Firefly_. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2011, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-hotties-that-arent-particularly-hot/603661/119 "2011-11-25T00:23:57Z")
> [@Spoke](#): > > I wouldn’t go that far, but I really don’t get all the fanboy lust for Summer Glau. She was by far the least attractive woman on _Firefly_. Every generation must address this sort of deep, philosophical conundrum; and in seeking an answer, come to grips with their place in the universe. It used to be “Ginger or Mary Ann?” ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2011, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-hotties-that-arent-particularly-hot/603661/120 "2011-11-25T03:16:40Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Every generation must address this sort of deep, philosophical conundrum; and in seeking an answer, come to grips with their place in the universe. It used to be “Ginger or Mary Ann?” The correct answer, of course, being Mary Ann 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-hotties-that-arent-particularly-hot/603661.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-hotties-that-arent-particularly-hot/603661.md?page=7)