# What exactly ignited your biggest celebrity crush? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 11, 2007, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-ignited-your-biggest-celebrity-crush/429676 "2007-12-11T23:32:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2007, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-ignited-your-biggest-celebrity-crush/429676/41 "2007-12-13T03:57:21Z")
Barbara Eden’s bodacious ta-tas, and the anticipation that her navel might one day peek out. ---
**Author:** ![divemaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/divemaster/32/78_2.png) [@divemaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/divemaster)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2007, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-ignited-your-biggest-celebrity-crush/429676/42 "2007-12-13T04:14:18Z")
I have a couple of crushes. One is Maggie Cheung. Can’t point to a particular point that started it, but she is something else. And for my younger crush: Ziyi Zhang. Miss Zhang is an amazing actress. In my opinion one of the best working right now. She can convey so much with a turn of the head, or a shift in that dancer’s body, or a flash of her eyes. Who can forget the seething raw power of her scenes in “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,” her vindictiveness in “Hero,” her transcendence in the echo game scene in “House of Flying Daggers,” her naïve cuteness in “The Road Home”? How many other actresses have such range, can command a scene like she can? If I had to sum it up in one word, it would be _exquisite_. Am I smitten? Oh, yes. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2007, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-ignited-your-biggest-celebrity-crush/429676/43 "2007-12-13T04:46:21Z")
b Donna Reed and Shelly Fabres at the same time. They played mother and daughter on Donna Reed show and I wanted them both. Then Jane Mansfield. Probably for different reasons. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2007, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-ignited-your-biggest-celebrity-crush/429676/44 "2007-12-13T14:22:40Z")
Zooey Deschanel, when she appeared on **Hitchhiker’s Guide** with that incredibly cute white outfit with the exaggerated bell bottoms. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2007, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-ignited-your-biggest-celebrity-crush/429676/45 "2007-12-13T15:19:09Z")
You guys are going to think I’m freaking nuts. My first major celebrity crush, when I was about 7, was on Bill Murray when I saw him in _Ghostbusters._ Because he played someone funny and intelligent (had a Ph.D IIRC) and his stolid reaction to Dana becoming possessed by an ancient god was absolutely hilarious. I absolutely love his personality, even when he’s being a complete jackass. My second major celebrity crush, which endured all through high school, was… Nicholas Cage. I saw him in _The Rock_, and I loved the nervous, quirky energy he brought to the story… when he found out he had to go with Sean Connery’s character to infiltrate the prison, he threw up. This is not really one’s typical imagining of an action movie hero. He usually gets the snot kicked out of him in every action movie he’s in, and I love the sense one has that he is not invincible or terribly out of the ordinary. He’s still one of my favorite actors, but I think I’m letting go of the ‘‘oooh dreamy Nicholas Cage’’ mentality. ---
**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 13, 2007, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-ignited-your-biggest-celebrity-crush/429676/46 "2007-12-13T15:26:06Z")
Hugh Laurie. Anyone who can play any role (slapstick British comedy/Dr. House) is a published author, can play music and has not-so-obvious fantastic looks (OH THOSE EYES!) is going to have me drooling! ---
**Author:** ![Maastricht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2007, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-ignited-your-biggest-celebrity-crush/429676/47 "2007-12-13T15:44:50Z")
I was sixteen or seventeen years old, when I came across a TV-show with a cute guy. He had ridiculously exxagarated tousled dark hair, smeared red lipstick and equally smeared black eyeliner. He sang a song called " Caterpillar" ([Youtube link](http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=KH0A239VnPo)). His clothes, hair, make-up, posture, the song’s lyrics, and the flashing looks with which he flirts with the camera were all so cheerfully, playfully, ironically, theatrically, dreamily, shamelessly, intelligently _whiny_ and silly I felt instant recognition. 🙂 My crush with Robert Smith, singer of the Cure, lasted over five years. My I-might-turn-lesbian-for-her crush, on the other hand, with Helena Cristiansen, never lasts longer then the time it takes to see the [video " Wicked Game"](http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=XXmlJQN5Pm8) where she plays Chris Isaaks love interest. I think she comes across as a bitch in that video, the way she totally ignores poor Chris, but man is she jaw-droppingly sexy. ---
**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:** [January 21, 2008, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-ignited-your-biggest-celebrity-crush/429676/48 "2008-01-21T18:15:13Z")
I went looking for my own celebrity crush thread to post this post in it, but I found this one which is newer so I’m posting here instead. A few days ago there was a post ‘weirdest celebrity crush’ on another MB… People were pretty much posting regardless of weirdness (i.e. they were simply posting their celebrity crush) It was seeing that thread that, for some reaosn, reminded me of the one I’d forgotten to mention in my own thread here. And that’s weird because it’s quite possibly my biggest celebrity crush of all time. I was sixteen, she was around seventeen or eighteen. Shannon Miller. What sparked it was watching the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. I had the biggest crush on her!! Kind of pleasant to be reminded of those feelings ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2008, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-ignited-your-biggest-celebrity-crush/429676/49 "2008-01-21T18:21:30Z")
Not my first, but the biggest was when a 18 year old me saw the 1989 007 movie _Licence to Kill_ Carey Lowell blew my mind. [http://www.101lifestyle.com/images/celebs/carey\_lowell/Carey\_Lowell-002.jpg](http://www.101lifestyle.com/images/celebs/carey_lowell/Carey_Lowell-002.jpg) Richard Gere is a lucky man. She still looks great. [http://uk.movies.yahoo.com/h/Hoax-The/photos-3996893-1883714.html](http://uk.movies.yahoo.com/h/Hoax-The/photos-3996893-1883714.html) ---
**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:** [January 21, 2008, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-ignited-your-biggest-celebrity-crush/429676/50 "2008-01-21T18:29:30Z")
[Shannon Miller](http://img111.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=01710_ShannonMiller_Atlanta96_01_122_521lo.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![RiverRunner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/977dab/32.png) [@RiverRunner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RiverRunner)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2008, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-ignited-your-biggest-celebrity-crush/429676/51 "2008-01-21T18:33:31Z")
It wasn’t really a crush, but . . . Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia. Yow. Kathleen Turner. Also, Fiona Ritchie, of _The Thistle and Shamrock_. That voice. Yow redux. RR ---
**Author:** ![Nutty\_Bunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d07c76/32.png) [@Nutty\_Bunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nutty_Bunny)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2008, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-ignited-your-biggest-celebrity-crush/429676/52 "2008-01-21T18:52:19Z")
Like many women my age, I had a huuuuge crush on \*\*John Taylor of Duran Duran \*\* and BAD! Like ‘I-wanted-to-have-his-babies-at-age-13’ bad. When I saw him in the “Hungry Like the Wolf” video, with his bedroom eyes and touselled hair, I was hooked. He’s aged extremely well. I find him more attractive now than he was then, although my 13 year old self probably wouldn’t have thought so. ---
**Author:** ![FordPrefect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e99b99/32.png) [@FordPrefect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordPrefect)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2008, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-ignited-your-biggest-celebrity-crush/429676/53 "2008-01-21T18:56:09Z")
Jessica Alba crouch/cat-walked her Dark Angel bottom into my brain, and it has remained there since. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2008, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-ignited-your-biggest-celebrity-crush/429676/54 "2008-01-21T21:35:32Z")
Growing up in the '50’s, deeply closeted, but these boys got my attention - “Bud” (Billy Gray) in Father Knows Best - those T-shirts! “Luke” (Johnny Crawford) in The Rifleman - those eyes! that face! and, to a lesser extent “Jeff” (Paul Peterson) on the Donna Reed Show - cute smile and other parts. Roddy ---
**Author:** ![stanger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ba0ec/32.png) [@stanger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stanger)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2008, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-ignited-your-biggest-celebrity-crush/429676/55 "2008-01-22T01:00:24Z")
I have had many celebrity crushes over the last forty years or so. Usually some captivating lady will steal my heart and cloud my thoughts for a year or so, then suddenly fade away when some new lady catches my attention. These are not thoughts of lust, so much, as a desire to just gaze upon their beauty and wish for their attention. Truly a “crush”. Funny how my early crushes were much older than myself, and now they become so much younger. But my most enduring crush has lasted for several years now and continues unabated. Something inside me finds the alluring Alyson Hannigan to be the most captivating of creatures. See had me the first time I ever saw her smile. I don’t see this affliction ending anytime soon. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2008, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-ignited-your-biggest-celebrity-crush/429676/56 "2008-01-22T01:42:11Z")
Want to hear sick. I wanted to do Donna Reed and Shelly Fabares who played her daughter on the same show. ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2008, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-ignited-your-biggest-celebrity-crush/429676/57 "2008-01-22T04:46:49Z")
I worked with actress [Deborah Raffin](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0706298/) for a couple of years, and had a mad crush on her. Too bad she was married to the boss… ---
**Author:** ![buns3000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c89c15/32.png) [@buns3000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buns3000)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2008, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-ignited-your-biggest-celebrity-crush/429676/58 "2008-01-22T08:20:39Z")
I didn’t know much about Mary-Louise Parker until I saw [Grand Canyon](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101969/), but have had the hots for her since then. ---
**Author:** ![casieispretty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/258eb7/32.png) [@casieispretty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casieispretty)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2008, 10:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-ignited-your-biggest-celebrity-crush/429676/59 "2008-01-22T10:27:54Z")
Winona Ryder, but I can’t remember when I first saw her. Why the hell else would a 10 year old boy want to watch Mermaids. After that it was Angelina Jolie in Hackers (So hot). Then Milla Jovovich in The Fifth Element… I’ve got peculiar tastes. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-ignited-your-biggest-celebrity-crush/429676.md?page=2)