(Note – none of these is particularly embarrassing if you consider my age at the relevant time.)
John Davidson (“Hollywood Squares”). Dimples. My age – high single digits.
Richard Dawson (“Family Feud”). Accent and charm. My age – teens.
Chuck Woollery (“Love Connection”). Dimples and twinkle; “niceness.” My age – 20s.
Tom Bergeron (“Hollywood Squares,” “Dancing with the Stars”). His ad libs seem legitimately off the cuff, at least part of the time. My age – late 40s to present.
I’m sorry, but having a crush on Richard Dawson at any time is embarrassing. Be ashamed; be very ashamed.
Chuck Woollery is teh hot, though. He was hot then and he’s still hot. Nothing to be ashamed of there. And I have a total switchfor on for his Lingo co-host, Shandi Finnessey. She’s adorable.
Roger Lodge from “Blind Date” and now “Camouflage” is pretty attractive, and the guy who hosts “Chain Reaction” is pretty cute in an oddly plastic sort of way. I’m a little embarrassed that I find A.J. Benza, who co-hosts “High Stakes Poker,” hot, because he comes off more than a little sleazy. It probably doesn;t help that he was in the film adaptation of “P.S. Your Cat is Dead” playing an ambisexual scumbag.
I always thought Peter Sagal (from “Wait Wait, Don’t Tell Me” on NPR) sounds cute. And he’s definitely smart and funny, so…y’all can have Carl Kassel, but I know who I’d want on my answering machine.