# Most absurd celebrity crush **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 8, 2006, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-absurd-celebrity-crush/355930 "2006-05-08T18:24:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![N.Sane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f19dbf/32.png) [@N.Sane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N.Sane)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2006, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-absurd-celebrity-crush/355930/21 "2006-05-08T23:25:20Z")
Vaderspal, I had a crush on Speed Racer too! My most enduring nonsensical celeb crush, though, is Ian McKellen. I know–he’s much older, and gay, so yeah, but still, I had an amazing fling with him in a dream one night. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2006, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-absurd-celebrity-crush/355930/22 "2006-05-08T23:26:00Z")
> [@Robot Arm](#): > > Is this the wrong time for me to point out that I look exactly like Alice Cooper? That depends. Is that with or without the golf? 😃 And **Otto** , you know the type… like my ex-fiance from high school. His sporting attire completely high-lighted his uber geekiness. I didn’t need any help being identified as the future wife of the guy who wore argyle anything. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2006, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-absurd-celebrity-crush/355930/23 "2006-05-08T23:38:06Z")
When I was 12, I developed a crush on Jane Pauley. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2006, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-absurd-celebrity-crush/355930/24 "2006-05-08T23:49:26Z")
> [@E. Thorp](#): > > Sequential thread alert! > > **Most absurd celebrity crush > Dead actresses** > > She died in 1985 before I’d even heard of her, but I’m still leaving the light on for [Louise Brooks](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Brooks). Feh, you’re not alone. I’m still carrying torches for [Jack Buchanan](http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.lascala-cinema.com/images/jack_buchanan.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.lascala-cinema.com/proposals2.htm&h=251&w=200&sz=9&tbnid=pAON0Ed3tO_ZSM:&tbnh=106&tbnw=84&hl=en&start=3&prev=/images%3Fq%3D%2522Jack-Buchanan%2522%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26sa%3DG) (second photo down), [John Gilbert](http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://home.hiwaay.net/~oliver/gilbert.jpg&imgrefurl=http://home.hiwaay.net/~oliver/gilbert.htm&h=234&w=240&sz=28&tbnid=lhmoPpjH1WdwhM:&tbnh=101&tbnw=104&hl=en&start=6&prev=/images%3Fq%3D%2522John-Gilbert%2522%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26sa%3DG), and [Ramon Novarro](http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://cinemexicano.mty.itesm.mx/imagenes/ramon_novarro.jpg&imgrefurl=http://cinemexicano.mty.itesm.mx/estrellas/ramon_novarro.html&h=313&w=254&sz=69&tbnid=QtrB7XSNCQD9uM:&tbnh=113&tbnw=91&hl=en&start=3&prev=/images%3Fq%3D%2522Ramon-Novarro%2522%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26sa%3DG). ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2006, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-absurd-celebrity-crush/355930/25 "2006-05-09T00:04:00Z")
Anne Hathaway. I’m 45, fat and a little disgusting; she’s yet to appear in a movie I’d consider seeing. But oh my God, wotta gal! Zooey Deschanel, too. I have this thing about women with big, anime eyes. ---
**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:** [May 9, 2006, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-absurd-celebrity-crush/355930/26 "2006-05-09T00:18:18Z")
> [@Krokodil](#): > > Zooey Deschanel, too. I have this thing about women with big, anime eyes. I dig. I had a crush on Christina Ricci. “But Troy,” you say, “there’s nothing weird about that!” I dug her as Wednesday Addams. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2006, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-absurd-celebrity-crush/355930/27 "2006-05-09T00:44:56Z")
> [@Krokodil](#): > > Anne Hathaway. I’m 45, fat and a little disgusting; she’s yet to appear in a movie I’d consider seeing. But oh my God, wotta gal! > > Zooey Deschanel, too. I have this thing about women with big, anime eyes. Well, I’d recommend you rent Brokeback Mountain if for nothing else but being able to see Ms. Hathaway topless briefly. ---
**Author:** ![Rachael\_Rage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71c47a/32.png) [@Rachael\_Rage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachael_Rage)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2006, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-absurd-celebrity-crush/355930/28 "2006-05-09T01:07:03Z")
> [@N. Sane](#): > > Vaderspal, I had a crush on Speed Racer too! > > My most enduring nonsensical celeb crush, though, is Ian McKellen. I know–he’s much older, and gay, so yeah, but still, I had an amazing fling with him in a dream one night. I forgot to mention another ill-advised childhood crush: Tim Curry as **Frank-n-Furter** in _The Rocky Horror Picture Show_. Mr. Curry was the object of my one and only fan-letter, though I never ended up mailing it. WRT dreams, I had a rather hot one about **Ed Harris** just a couple of nights ago. I mean, yeah, he’s a good looking guy, but there was no particular reason why I would expect him to, uh, pop up in my dreams that way. ---
**Author:** ![ScoobyTX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@ScoobyTX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ScoobyTX)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2006, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-absurd-celebrity-crush/355930/29 "2006-05-09T01:07:49Z")
> [@Troy McClure SF](#): > > I dug her as Wednesday Addams. How old are you? That’s more “creepy” than absurd. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2006, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-absurd-celebrity-crush/355930/30 "2006-05-09T01:10:30Z")
> [@lobstermobster](#): > > Who do you secretly have a crush on in pop culture, celebrity or fictional character, that you are only comfortable sharing here in the anonymous world of SDMB. I’ll go first. > > No one knows that I am in love with Detective Munch of Law and Order: SVU. He’s just so cool! (i’m a 22 year old college student!) I’d hang out with Det. Munch, drink, swap conspiracy theories but I’d much rather be with Ice T’s character, Fin. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2006, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-absurd-celebrity-crush/355930/31 "2006-05-09T01:13:14Z")
> [@Wile E](#): > > I’d hang out with Det. Munch, drink, swap conspiracy theories but I’d much rather be with Ice-T’s character, Fin. 😉 In retrospect that’s probably not absurd, Ice-T’s a nice looking guy. Another poster reminded me of Tim Curry. My crush was on him as Darkness in Legend, does that qualify? ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2006, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-absurd-celebrity-crush/355930/32 "2006-05-09T01:14:40Z")
MadTV’s Bobby Lee. Please don’t tell anyone. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2006, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-absurd-celebrity-crush/355930/33 "2006-05-09T01:17:56Z")
I have man-crushes on Bjork, Emiliana Torrini, and both Wilsons from Heart. It’s absurd man-crushes because I’m not attracted to their bodies or personalities per se, but their excellence in singing makes me…you know. It’s also absurd because I’m not really outgoing but I’m afraid that if I met them I’d offer to be their male groupie even though they wouldn’t be interested. ---
**Author:** ![cbawlmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cbawlmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cbawlmer)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2006, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-absurd-celebrity-crush/355930/34 "2006-05-09T01:25:45Z")
> [@lobstermobster](#): > > No one knows that I am in love with Detective Munch of Law and Order: SVU. He’s just so cool! (i’m a 22 year old college student!) Hey, you know about _Homicide: Life on the Street_, right? That’s where I liked him back when _I_ was a 22-year-old college student. If you haven’t seen it, you have seven years of Munchy goodness coming to you, and each episode he’s barely in is 50 times better than any SVU episode he’s barely in. Munch has always been tragically underused. I’ve had plenty of unconventional celebrity/fictional character crushes, but one of my earliest was Kermit the Frog. Many years later I developed a thing for G’Kar on _Babylon 5_, so maybe I have some weird amphibian fetish. But I loved them for who they were, not what they looked like! ---
**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:** [May 9, 2006, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-absurd-celebrity-crush/355930/35 "2006-05-09T02:21:03Z")
> [@ScoobyTX](#): > > How old are you? That’s more “creepy” than absurd. She’s two years older than me. ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2006, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-absurd-celebrity-crush/355930/36 "2006-05-09T02:21:40Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > I’m a 27-year-old woman from Cleveland and I have a crush/obsession with Sherlock Holmes as portrayed by Jeremy Brett. > > Not only is Brett much older, gay 😕 You sure about that? He had two wives and three children. ---
**Author:** ![Alias](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e4f/32.png) [@Alias](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alias)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2006, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-absurd-celebrity-crush/355930/37 "2006-05-09T02:59:07Z")
I have enough bizarre crushes to make an entire thread all by myself, but I’ll stick to the most important of “my men.” [JOHN C. MCGINLEY](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001525/). Dear God, I find him to be soooo incredibly sexy. ::sigh:: I’m 27, and female if that matters. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2006, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-absurd-celebrity-crush/355930/38 "2006-05-09T03:00:31Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > Freddie Mercury. Pretty absurd in light of the gay thing and the, ya know, dead thing, but I have lust in my heart for that man. The good news is, he was most likely bi. The bad new is, he’s still very much dead. ---
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2006, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-absurd-celebrity-crush/355930/39 "2006-05-09T03:06:20Z")
In high school I had a crush on Margaret Tutwiler, the state Department spokesperson under President Bush. Do I win the thread? ---
**Author:** ![pokey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ebca7d/32.png) [@pokey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pokey)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2006, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-absurd-celebrity-crush/355930/40 "2006-05-09T03:08:13Z")
I used to have a big crush on Missy Elliott. I don’t know what happened there, it’s some glitch. I have some kind of thing about overbites and it’s right out of control. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-absurd-celebrity-crush/355930.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-absurd-celebrity-crush/355930.md?page=3)