# Do any celebrities physically repulse you? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 19, 2004, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-celebrities-physically-repulse-you/280673 "2004-12-19T19:51:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2004, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-celebrities-physically-repulse-you/280673/101 "2004-12-20T20:17:31Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > —The most oft-heard phrase in neverland. With all the raids on Neverland, I’m sure cops have used the phrase “Michael Jackson, hands up” more than a few times. ---
**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 20, 2004, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-celebrities-physically-repulse-you/280673/102 "2004-12-20T22:23:35Z")
Somebody mention John Malkovich? Teeny tiny close-set beady eyes, nose like an on-the-lam plastic surgery job, Cro-Magnon cranium, prissy clammy child-molester-whose-nuts-haven’t dropped voice. Cameron Diaz in _Being John Malkovich_. Ratty hair, ratty sweaters, ratty personality. I could practically smell the animal cages. Evan Handler in _Sex and the City_. Supposedly a cuddly ethnic “type,” he reminded me more of Lex Luthor’s not-very-bright nephew. The shaven head makes his eyes seem cruel, his expression impassive, his face dead and puffy. Nick Nolte and Kris Kristofferson. What is about guys with thick seamed faces and hard squinty eyes that gets some women all hot and bothered? The Olsen Twins. They look like they’re sticky to the touch (and not in a good way). Their eyes are like the eyes of zombies, or aborted calves. Overprocessed pr0n stars with helium gazots, bony hips, landing-strip crotches and surgically implanted high heels. Liza Minnelli. And I saw her onstage. It’s all real. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Guy\_Incognito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guy_incognito/32/3920_2.png) [@Guy\_Incognito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guy_Incognito)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2004, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-celebrities-physically-repulse-you/280673/103 "2004-12-20T22:31:38Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Then there’s that odd-looking actress with the huge forehead…not **Christina Ricci** , who is bizarre-looking in her own right, but another equally alien-type. Julia Stiles? Yeah, you could project a movie on her forehead. (I shouldn’t talk, being kind of chrome-domed and all.) I’d pretty much have to admit I’m repulsed by the entire cast of “7th Heaven”, with the exception of ex-cast member Jessica Beil. I guess I could blame it on the fact that the show’s writing sucks, but these “actors” add a whole new level of stink on top of this steaming pile of “entertainment”. ---
**Author:** ![Sat\_on\_Cookie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/71c47a/32.png) [@Sat\_on\_Cookie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sat_on_Cookie)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2004, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-celebrities-physically-repulse-you/280673/104 "2004-12-20T23:00:24Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > Minnie Driver. She totally repusles me and I have no idea why. You and me both. I’m positively baffled _baffled_ I tell you that she’s regarded by some as a great beauty. Bill Maher really skeeves me out. To me, he looks like he fell into a vat of flour, so pale and pasty. And it always seems as though he’s spouting off about his pulsating love life, which just makes me want to puke. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2004, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-celebrities-physically-repulse-you/280673/105 "2004-12-20T23:20:12Z")
> [@Guy Incognito](#): > > Julia Stiles? Yeah, you could project a movie on her forehead. (I shouldn’t talk, being kind of chrome-domed and all.) No, not Julia Stiles. This one is darker, with dark hair, kinda bulgy eyes and a HUGE forehead. I saw her recently in some flick taking place in (possibly) Victorian England. Oh wait! It was in a production of Henry VIII on PBS, I think. She played some supposedly irresistable wife of his… Aha! **[Helena Bonham Carter](http://www.helena-bonham-carter.com/)**! ---
**Author:** ![AwSnappity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a3d4f5/32.png) [@AwSnappity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AwSnappity)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2004, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-celebrities-physically-repulse-you/280673/106 "2004-12-20T23:53:41Z")
> [@Scumpup](#): > > **Jude Law**. He’s like an audio-animatronics construct with silicone rubber skin. Like in [AI: Artificial Intelligence](http://www.imdb.com/gallery/ss/0212720/Ss/0212720/AIC-3005r.jpg?path=gallery&path_key=0212720)? ---
**Author:** ![cuauhtemoc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecb155/32.png) [@cuauhtemoc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cuauhtemoc)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2004, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-celebrities-physically-repulse-you/280673/107 "2004-12-20T23:55:56Z")
I’ve always found Melanie Griffith sort of appalling. It’s the voice. And also, Megan Mulally (sp?) from _Will and Grace_, but I don’t think she talks like that in real life. ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2004, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-celebrities-physically-repulse-you/280673/108 "2004-12-20T23:59:42Z")
The entire cast of **Will and Grace**. Also, I think Elijah Wood is a creepy, creepy little person, and I remember sighing with disappointment when I heard he was to play Frodo. Good God, 9 hours of watching him?! I made it through, but I’ve only seen each movie once. Then there are the standards: Julia Roberts. Cameron Diaz. Hugh Grant. > [@](#): > > Juliette Lewis. She’s always just seemed sort of retarded to me in the most non-perjorative way- sort of unbalanced and brain-damaged. So it’s not just me! That’s how she always struck me as well. ---
**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:** [December 20, 2004, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-celebrities-physically-repulse-you/280673/109 "2004-12-20T23:59:54Z")
> [@cuauhtemoc](#): > > And also, Megan Mulally (sp?) from _Will and Grace_, but I don’t think she talks like that in real life. She doesn’t. She’s been on Letterman (even hosted once) and her normal voice is just fine. Why must she sound like a screeching harpy on the show? ---
**Author:** ![Abbie\_Carmichael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/49beb7/32.png) [@Abbie\_Carmichael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abbie_Carmichael)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2004, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-celebrities-physically-repulse-you/280673/110 "2004-12-21T00:00:05Z")
I like chunky guys, but if Michael Moore were the last man on earth I would become a lesbian before I’d crawl into bed with him. You can be fat and stylish, but he always looks like an unmade bed. Given his money, he has no excuse. And he looks like he hasn’t taken a bath in a week. ---
**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:** [December 21, 2004, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-celebrities-physically-repulse-you/280673/111 "2004-12-21T00:21:57Z")
The Bangles. Susannah Hoffs included. A better name for the band would have been The Truckstop Waitresses. ---
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2004, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-celebrities-physically-repulse-you/280673/112 "2004-12-21T00:48:47Z")
> [@Scumpup](#): > > **Jude Law**. He’s like an audio-animatronics construct with silicone rubber skin. SNiffs\_Markers and I have thought this about Ralph Fiennes. We rented _Sonnenshein_ (he always skeeves us out, I don’t know what we were thinking) and when he had loves scenes we had to fastforward because it was like the poor woman was kissing pale wax dummy. He was all pasty and hairless. Likewise, a few years ago, Tom Cruise was on the cover of Vanity Fair. He was shirtless, with his hands on his hips. He had a _very freshly waxed_ chest and his underarm hairs were poking out from his pits. That was it. I cannot watch him in any movie without almost gagging. We watched _Vanilla Sky_ to compare it to the real original movie. Everytime he tried to be “charming” we were grossed out. Seriously, both Markers and I kept going “Oh, ewwwww” out loud as we watched. When he had prosthetic make-up to make him ugly, we actually found him much more tolerable than his wet lipped smiles. We felt so sorry for Penelope (or as someone called her above in this thread, “the bat”) because her character was so nice… and he looked like someone who drinks vegetable oil right out of the bottle. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2004, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-celebrities-physically-repulse-you/280673/113 "2004-12-21T01:00:00Z")
Paris Hilton. David Hasslehoff. Victoria Beckham. Jordan (Katie Pryce). Peter Andre (put a fucking shirt on tosser). Geri Halliwell. Chris Evans. And the ‘winner’ of most repulsive celeb - Michael Winner! ---
**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 21, 2004, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-celebrities-physically-repulse-you/280673/114 "2004-12-21T01:26:57Z")
> [@Indygrrl](#): > > I’m sorry, but yeah f’n right that you wouln’t drool all over your damn self if Angelina was sitting in a barroom near you. Care to lay money on it? This sounds like hyperbole, but isn’t: I’d rather pound my nuts flat with a wooden hammer. ---
**Author:** ![yBeayf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/e274bd/32.png) [@yBeayf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yBeayf)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2004, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-celebrities-physically-repulse-you/280673/115 "2004-12-21T01:32:21Z")
> [@](#): > > Helena Bonham Carter Is beautiful, dammit! There’s no way she should be on this list, even if she did play a chimpanzee that one time. I second (third?) the repulsion from Juliette Lewis; that girl ain’t right. Ditto for the Olsen twins – I would describe their gaze as crustacean-like. But what’s even more hideous than the Olsen twins is a [badly-drawn picture](http://www.kinderimfilm.de/mary%20kate%20&%20ashley%20olsen%20(twins).jpg) of the Olsen twins. That drawing’s going to be giving me nightmares for weeks. They look like they’re sizing me up, right before they attack with vicious speed and rend the flesh from my bones with those horrible, horrible teeth. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2004, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-celebrities-physically-repulse-you/280673/116 "2004-12-21T01:39:26Z")
> [@yBeayf](#): > > Is beautiful, dammit! There’s no way she should be on this list, even if she did play a chimpanzee that one time. > > I second (third?) the repulsion from Juliette Lewis; It is probably proof of Helena’s acting ability that she managed to _be_ repulsive in ‘Fight Club’. I have never found her repulsive in anything else. If you third the repulsion from Juliette Lewis then i fourth it. P.S. I don’t find the Olsen twins all that repulsive. ---
**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:** [December 21, 2004, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-celebrities-physically-repulse-you/280673/117 "2004-12-21T01:42:34Z")
I’d do HBC even if she was was wearing the monkey suit. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2004, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-celebrities-physically-repulse-you/280673/118 "2004-12-21T01:43:44Z")
> [@yBeayf](#): > > Is beautiful, dammit! There’s no way she should be on this list, even if she did play a chimpanzee that one time. I think you got it backwards. ---
**Author:** ![Hustle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df705f/32.png) [@Hustle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hustle)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2004, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-celebrities-physically-repulse-you/280673/119 "2004-12-21T01:44:39Z")
Rupert Everett (My Best Friend’s Wedding, Shakespeare in Love) used to be a [decent looking guy](http://www.imdb.com/gallery/granitz/0577-apl/Events/0577-apl/everettr.upe?path=pgallery&path_key=Everett,%20Rupert) but his post-mid-life-crisis look makes me _cringe_. If it turns out he painted little eyes on the outside of his eyelids in order to nap through boring movie premieres, which is a distinct possibility from [the look of things](http://www.imdb.com/gallery/granitz/2488/Events/2488/RupertEver_Vespa_2726973_400.jpg?path=pgallery&path_key=Everett,%20Rupert), I apologise and applaud his ingenuity. ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2004, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-celebrities-physically-repulse-you/280673/120 "2004-12-21T01:50:15Z")
Michael Jackson Mick Jagger. In fact, throw in his whole band The actor who played Richie Aprile (sp?) in The Sopranos gives me the creeps Christina Ricci Cristina Aguilera Billy Bob Thorton Michael Douglas Carrot Top, though it’s a stretch to call him a celebrity Woody Allen Sandra Bernhardt [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-celebrities-physically-repulse-you/280673.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-celebrities-physically-repulse-you/280673.md?page=7)