# Uncommon celebrity crushes **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 24, 2017, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uncommon-celebrity-crushes/794551 "2017-08-24T12:27:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**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:** [September 1, 2017, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uncommon-celebrity-crushes/794551/41 "2017-09-01T13:40:33Z")
I just realized that I named Kate Micucci twice. She just has that effect on me. Even when she’s dressed up as [a pot plant](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRm1yqSmsGY). ---
**Author:** ![Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/marvin_the_martian/32/2898_2.png) [@Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marvin_the_Martian)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2017, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uncommon-celebrity-crushes/794551/42 "2017-09-01T17:32:02Z")
> [@TYphoonSignal8](#): > > Also, Bugs Bunny when he dresses as a girl. How about when he dresses as a Tasmanian she-devil? ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2017, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uncommon-celebrity-crushes/794551/43 "2017-09-01T17:42:54Z")
She’s not exactly a pin-up poster material, but I’ve always found Emma Thompson to be very attractive. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2017, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uncommon-celebrity-crushes/794551/44 "2017-09-01T19:34:38Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > I just realized that I named Kate Micucci twice. She just has that effect on me. Even when she’s dressed up as [a pot plant](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRm1yqSmsGY). At this point, I think she’s so common as an uncommon crush that she’s become a common crush. If you’re into the “cute” and “quirky” kind of sexy, she’s just off the charts. Unfortunately, I watch more Internet video than TV/Movies now, so I don’t know how well I can contribute. I mean, I think [Calluna](https://twitter.com/CallunaReviews) (Heather McDonald) is hot in an unconventional way. And [Zsuzsanna Dancso](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Lm9EHhbJAY) is a hot mathematician. (I leave out Hannah Fry because she’s more conventionally attractive, I think.) But those are all women on YouTube. Would someone like [Aisling Bea](https://www.google.com/search?q=aisling+bea&tbm=isch) count? The comments on the panel shows she appears on always crush on her, but she’s not someone who comes up in “hottest celeb” lists or anything. Edit: Ooh, I know. Another panel show regular that people look at me askance about: [Sue Perkins](https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=young+sue+perkins), especially when she was younger. ---
**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:** [September 1, 2017, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uncommon-celebrity-crushes/794551/45 "2017-09-01T20:21:49Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > Would someone like [Aisling Bea](https://www.google.com/search?q=aisling+bea&tbm=isch) count? Well, sure, but she’s no Cariad Lloyd. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2017, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uncommon-celebrity-crushes/794551/46 "2017-09-01T20:26:50Z")
Having recently watched all available episodes of _Dark Matter_, how about [Jodelle](http://cdn04.cdn.justjaredjr.com/wp-content/uploads/pictures/2015/06/dark-matter/jodelle-ferland-dark-matter-promo-pics-premiere-02.JPG) [Ferland](https://i.imgur.com/JYPPVoW.jpg)? ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2017, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uncommon-celebrity-crushes/794551/47 "2017-09-01T21:02:27Z")
Despite her having a somewhat [oddly-shaped head](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/u_nRTlAQAtk/hqdefault.jpg), I remember crushing hard on [Pam Tillis](http://www.coversresource.com/covers/Pam-Tillis-Put-Yourself-In-My-Place-1991-Front-Cover-75772.jpg) when she had a few big country hits back in the '90s. I guess liking her music helped. “Maybe It Was Memphis” is a great song. I still think she’s cute in her own way. ---
**Author:** ![Moris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moris/32/2846_2.png) [@Moris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moris)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2017, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uncommon-celebrity-crushes/794551/48 "2017-09-01T21:17:05Z")
Perhaps not a beauty in traditonal sense but I could stare at [Sofia Coppola](http://lh4.ggpht.com/_Vz6SytdOr68/TOVX4Dla44I/AAAAAAAACo4/P-LRmzrpkuM/Sofia%20Coppola%20Photos%20of%20CraigMcDean%202003%202_thumb%5B2%5D.jpg?imgmax=800) for the whole day. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2017, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uncommon-celebrity-crushes/794551/49 "2017-09-01T21:33:18Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > She’s not exactly a pin-up poster material, but I’ve always found Emma Thompson to be very attractive. She and everyone else in it was at her most beautiful in Much Ado About Nothing. I’d have to go Sam Rockwell, although it’s more worship of him than a crush exactly. Also Steve Coogan. ---
**Author:** ![SeaDragonTattoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2017, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uncommon-celebrity-crushes/794551/50 "2017-09-01T23:45:51Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > I never like the ones I’m supposed to like. > > However, I think [Steve Buscemi](http://static.snopes.com/app/uploads/2015/05/buscemi.jpg) is pretty hot. He plays likable (or at least funny) characters in the movies, so I feel happy when I see his face. And he’s apparently a great guy in real life as well. What’s not to like? Heh. A friend of mine has his face tattooed on herself. Another friend has Jerry Orbach tattooed on herself. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2017, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uncommon-celebrity-crushes/794551/51 "2017-09-01T23:49:41Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > Would someone like [Aisling Bea](https://www.google.com/search?q=aisling+bea&tbm=isch) count? The comments on the panel shows she appears on always crush on her, but she’s not someone who comes up in “hottest celeb” lists or anything. She should, she’s the most beautiful person in the entire world! > [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Well, sure, but she’s no Cariad Lloyd. That reminds me, there’s an Australian celeb I like who always reminds me of Cariad - [Anne “Eddo” Edmonds](https://www.google.com.au/search?q=anne+edmonds&num=100&safe=off&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwipid33lYXWAhUDmJQKHYkRBL0Q_AUICigB&biw=1662&bih=1067). And then there’s [Celia Pacquola](https://www.google.com.au/search?safe=off&biw=1662&bih=1067&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=celia+pacquola&oq=celia+pacquola&gs_l=psy-ab.3...21647.25720.0.25954.14.13.0.0.0.0.0.0..0.0....0...1.1.64.psy-ab..14.0.0.jBU2VmcWmns), [Michala Banas](https://www.google.com.au/search?q=michala+banas&num=100&safe=off&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiX1aWlloXWAhUJppQKHSR2BSEQ_AUICigB&biw=1662&bih=1067), and [Julia Zemiro](https://www.google.com.au/search?safe=off&biw=1662&bih=1067&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=julia+zemiro&oq=julia+zemiro&gs_l=psy-ab.3..0l4.22472.26750.0.27087.16.11.0.0.0.0.855.1917.2-1j6-2.3.0....0...1.1.64.psy-ab..13.3.1915...0i67k1.3tcTUXvdtmY). ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2017, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uncommon-celebrity-crushes/794551/52 "2017-09-02T00:10:54Z")
If you can count Olympic level figure skaters as celebs, circa 1988 [Jill Trenary.](https://c1.staticflickr.com/8/7130/7436429478_534299c29d_b.jpg) That’s pretty obscure. ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2017, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uncommon-celebrity-crushes/794551/53 "2017-09-02T01:49:25Z")
Also [Angie Bompenseiro](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9zpYwUIKI0) from the Sopranos. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2017, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uncommon-celebrity-crushes/794551/54 "2017-09-03T19:45:48Z")
Bryce Dallas Howard. I don’t think it’s unusual since she is gorgeous but maybe uncommon since she isn’t marketed as a sex symbol. ---
**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:** [September 3, 2017, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uncommon-celebrity-crushes/794551/55 "2017-09-03T20:01:56Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Bryce Dallas Howard. I don’t think it’s unusual since she is gorgeous but maybe uncommon since she isn’t marketed as a sex symbol. I could probably fill this thread to overflowing just with redheads. ---
**Author:** ![Annoying\_Buzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Annoying\_Buzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annoying_Buzz)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2017, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uncommon-celebrity-crushes/794551/56 "2017-09-04T02:02:08Z")
I don’t know how unusual it was, but as a kid my celeb crush was for Pam Dawber (Mindy from Mork & Mindy). I’d choose her over Farrah Fawcett any day. More recently, while I enjoy track & field whenever it’s on TV, I’ll always take time to stop and watch when Allyson Felix is running. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2017, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uncommon-celebrity-crushes/794551/57 "2017-09-04T02:08:39Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > I could probably fill this thread to overflowing just with redheads. I wasn’t going to point out all mine are redheads because that would be weird. ---
**Author:** ![california\_jobcase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@california\_jobcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/california_jobcase)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2017, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uncommon-celebrity-crushes/794551/58 "2017-09-04T02:22:36Z")
My big older-women crushes when I was a teenager were Bernadette Peters, Marilu Henner, and Jan Smithers. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2017, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uncommon-celebrity-crushes/794551/59 "2017-09-06T03:20:51Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > I would say almost all of my celebrity crushes are uncommon; not that they’re necessarily surprising, just women who seem to go largely unmentioned when such things are discussed. Ditto, well, except my crushes are men. However, I do know other people who like most of them (like Eric Balfour and Andrew Lee Potts). One no one else I know mentions is [Ennis Esmer](https://i1.wp.com/www.screenspy.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/NUP_175398_1317.jpg). I’ve only seen him in\* Dark Matter \*and \*Blindspot \*so far, but he’s oddly appealing. ---
**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:** [September 6, 2017, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uncommon-celebrity-crushes/794551/60 "2017-09-06T10:35:07Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > I could probably fill this thread to overflowing just with redheads. I seem to only like Kirsten Dunst when she has [blue hair](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVjMF_TfY6M). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uncommon-celebrity-crushes/794551.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uncommon-celebrity-crushes/794551.md?page=4)