# Famous people who are considered unattractive but you think are HOT **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 24, 2006, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-who-are-considered-unattractive-but-you-think-are-hot/349781 "2006-03-24T21:05:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-who-are-considered-unattractive-but-you-think-are-hot/349781/21 "2006-03-24T22:49:09Z")
Allison Mack. Most Smallville fans I’ve met like Kreuk or Erica Durrance better, but I’ll always be a Mack-man. Hee hee, I’m so clever. ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-who-are-considered-unattractive-but-you-think-are-hot/349781/22 "2006-03-24T23:06:35Z")
> [@ddgryphon](#): > > Is Christina Ricci actually considered not attractive?!?! Now, no. As Wednesday Addams, probably. (She’s older than me, which I consider to be an important detail.) ---
**Author:** ![mojave66](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@mojave66](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mojave66)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-who-are-considered-unattractive-but-you-think-are-hot/349781/23 "2006-03-24T23:07:49Z")
Bea Arthur. I’ve had a mini-crush on her for years. ---
**Author:** ![ddgryphon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8c91f0/32.png) [@ddgryphon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ddgryphon)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-who-are-considered-unattractive-but-you-think-are-hot/349781/24 "2006-03-24T23:29:55Z")
> [@Love Rhombus](#): > > Allison Mack. Most Smallville fans I’ve met like Kreuk or Erica Durrance better, but I’ll always be a Mack-man. > > Hee hee, I’m so clever. Mack or Durance are about the same page of hot in my book. Kreuk isn’t even in the book. Durance is closer to typical showbiz beauty, and Clark’s idiocy when it comes to Lana vs. Cloe makes me want to smack him upside the head with a chunk of kryptonite, preferably green. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-who-are-considered-unattractive-but-you-think-are-hot/349781/25 "2006-03-24T23:48:55Z")
> [@Revenant Threshold](#): > > Janeane Garofalo. Yeaaaa, I’d like to get me some of that. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-who-are-considered-unattractive-but-you-think-are-hot/349781/26 "2006-03-24T23:59:40Z")
Agnes Moorehead, young OR old Courtney Love Cyndi Lauper (young or old) I 3rd Sandra Bernhard Dog the Bounty Hunter’s wife (Beth?) Annie Lennox Yeardley Smith ---
**Author:** ![Scruloose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@Scruloose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scruloose)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2006, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-who-are-considered-unattractive-but-you-think-are-hot/349781/27 "2006-03-25T00:02:25Z")
As of late, and for reasons I can’t readily explain: ESPN’s Linda Cohn. > [@Jacob Silj](#): > > I second that Nicole Sullivan nomination- very hot I used to work with Nicole Sullivan when she was in college. She was a very attractive and outgoing girl. ---
**Author:** ![kushiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbce88/32.png) [@kushiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kushiel)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2006, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-who-are-considered-unattractive-but-you-think-are-hot/349781/28 "2006-03-25T00:17:21Z")
I don’t talk to a lot of people over 20 about who they think is hot, so people that teens think are ugly that I think are to die for: Viggo Mortensen (OMG he’s in his 40s!) Sean Bean Alan Rickman older aged Sean Connery Tilda Swinton Liam Neeson Harrison Ford ---
**Author:** ![Rubystreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2006, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-who-are-considered-unattractive-but-you-think-are-hot/349781/29 "2006-03-25T00:23:20Z")
> [@kushiel](#): > > I don’t talk to a lot of people over 20 about who they think is hot, so people that teens think are ugly that I think are to die for: > > Viggo Mortensen (OMG he’s in his 40s!) > Sean Bean > Alan Rickman > older aged Sean Connery > Tilda Swinton > Liam Neeson > Harrison Ford People think ANY of these people are unattractive? They’re all way, way hot. I also have to go 😕 at anyone who would call Clive Owen unattractive. He’s smokin’. ---
**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:** [March 25, 2006, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-who-are-considered-unattractive-but-you-think-are-hot/349781/30 "2006-03-25T00:35:19Z")
Patricia Heaton. [I](http://www.hollywoodtuna.com/pic_pages/heatonraymond.htm) [kid](http://www.usatoday.com/life/gallery/golden/21-patricia-heaton.jpg) [you](http://www.ba.no/multimedia/archive/00675/e2-v_675264e.jpg) [not.](http://www.celebrityfeet.it/pics005/patriciaheaton010.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![malkavia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malkavia/32/5621_2.png) [@malkavia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/malkavia)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2006, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-who-are-considered-unattractive-but-you-think-are-hot/349781/31 "2006-03-25T00:46:22Z")
[Joaquin](http://www.celebrities.pl/joaquin_phoenix/joaquin1.jpg)_droooool_ Honorable mention goes to [Elliot Yamin.](http://c.myspace.com/Groups/00011/59/74/11764795_l.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Rodgers01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b19c9b/32.png) [@Rodgers01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rodgers01)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2006, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-who-are-considered-unattractive-but-you-think-are-hot/349781/32 "2006-03-25T00:46:25Z")
> [@Beware of Doug](#): > > Patricia Heaton. [I](http://www.hollywoodtuna.com/pic_pages/heatonraymond.htm) [kid](http://www.usatoday.com/life/gallery/golden/21-patricia-heaton.jpg) [you](http://www.ba.no/multimedia/archive/00675/e2-v_675264e.jpg) [not.](http://www.celebrityfeet.it/pics005/patriciaheaton010.jpg) Damn, I was just thinking that as “Raymond” is on TV behind me. Is she considered unattractive?? (I did see her interviewed on TV once, though, and she came across as incredibly flakey, which lessened the hotness factor a bit.) ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2006, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-who-are-considered-unattractive-but-you-think-are-hot/349781/33 "2006-03-25T00:54:22Z")
I had a boner for Tori Spelling on 90210. ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2006, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-who-are-considered-unattractive-but-you-think-are-hot/349781/34 "2006-03-25T01:20:34Z")
> [@Caricci](#): > > John Goodman. He is _exactly_ who I thought of right off! Not good looking, but _damn_! He’s sexy! ---
**Author:** ![Emily\_Litella](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emily_litella/32/3370_2.png) [@Emily\_Litella](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emily_Litella)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2006, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-who-are-considered-unattractive-but-you-think-are-hot/349781/35 "2006-03-25T01:33:13Z")
> [@Ghanima](#): > > The guy who played Faramir in LOTR. I’ve seen him in other stuff too and I think he’s pretty hot. > > Denzel Washington. Oh wait. Every woman on the planet thinks he’s hot too, don’t they? Faramir is [David Wenham](http://www.imdb.com/gallery/granitz/2456/Events/2456/DavidWenha_Grani_2659181_400.jpg?path=pgallery&path_key=Wenham,%20David) and I agree he’s hot. And you’re right about Denzel Washington too. I like Alan Rickman and Malcolm McDowell (No! not Roddy) too. But Barry Manilow??? ---
**Author:** ![Archergal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Archergal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Archergal)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2006, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-who-are-considered-unattractive-but-you-think-are-hot/349781/36 "2006-03-25T02:59:42Z")
He’s an ugly man even when he’s not in monster make-up, but I have to confess I find [Ron Perlman](http://www.enzogiobbe.com/celebs/Ron_Perlman2.jpg) strangely compelling. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2006, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-who-are-considered-unattractive-but-you-think-are-hot/349781/37 "2006-03-25T03:01:06Z")
> [@Rodgers01](#): > > Damn, I was just thinking that as “Raymond” is on TV behind me. Is she considered unattractive??. Not in any universe I’m aware of. ---
**Author:** ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2006, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-who-are-considered-unattractive-but-you-think-are-hot/349781/38 "2006-03-25T03:03:30Z")
Nobody’s mentioned my secret boyfriend, **Christopher Walken**? ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2006, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-who-are-considered-unattractive-but-you-think-are-hot/349781/39 "2006-03-25T03:31:33Z")
> [@ddgryphon](#): > > I was always a Bailey Quarters fan back in the day – way prettier than Loni Anderson. I found Kate on “Drew Carey’s Show” VERY attractive. I don’t know a single person who considers either one of those ladies to be unattractive. They were both models, for pity’s sake! ---
**Author:** ![ddgryphon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8c91f0/32.png) [@ddgryphon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ddgryphon)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2006, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-who-are-considered-unattractive-but-you-think-are-hot/349781/40 "2006-03-25T03:43:41Z")
> [@JThunder](#): > > I don’t know a single person who considers either one of those ladies to be unattractive. They were both models, for pity’s sake! I also said: > [@ddgryphon](#): > > I can’t think of someone in Hollywood that isn’t thought to be pretty, there are certainly some who are thought to be gorgeous, but pretty much everyone is good looking Qualifying my statement. I can’t think of any outright ugly or unattractive people in show business. These are the ones who were looked over – closest I could come. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-who-are-considered-unattractive-but-you-think-are-hot/349781.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-who-are-considered-unattractive-but-you-think-are-hot/349781.md?page=3)