# What's the status of your childhood/teenage celebrity crush(es)? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 11, 2010, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-status-of-your-childhood-teenage-celebrity-crush-es/528607 "2010-02-11T22:09:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-status-of-your-childhood-teenage-celebrity-crush-es/528607/21 "2010-02-12T01:06:46Z")
Back long ago, Jamie Lee Curtis caught my eye in Halloween and The Fog. Things changed fast. I can’t imagine what I saw back then. All those yogurt commercials and talk show appearances ruined it for me. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-status-of-your-childhood-teenage-celebrity-crush-es/528607/22 "2010-02-12T01:08:05Z")
When I was a kid watching the original Mickey Mouse Club I was quite smitten with Annette Funicello. I was like 7 or something. Not a bad choice, considering. Oddly, the beach movies with her do nothing for me. ---
**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:** [February 12, 2010, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-status-of-your-childhood-teenage-celebrity-crush-es/528607/23 "2010-02-12T01:17:15Z")
GIS turns up Susan Dey looking [naturally aged](http://www.celebritywonder.com/picture/Susan_Dey/SusanDey_DeGuire_8389232.jpg) and [worked on](http://www.eicb.org/UserFiles/Image/SusanDey2-778766.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![kidneyfailure](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9f8e36/32.png) [@kidneyfailure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidneyfailure)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-status-of-your-childhood-teenage-celebrity-crush-es/528607/24 "2010-02-12T01:34:23Z")
Shannen Doherty was my first, she still looks pretty good these days. Everyone else who watched _Saved by the Bell_ seemed to have had a thing for Tiffani-Amber Thiessen, but I was always in love with Lark Voorhies back in the day. I saw her in _People_ last year and she still had that million-dollar smile. ---
**Author:** ![RainGrowsBrite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@RainGrowsBrite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RainGrowsBrite)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-status-of-your-childhood-teenage-celebrity-crush-es/528607/25 "2010-02-12T01:47:53Z")
I was convinced that I would marry Mike Vitar who played Benny “The Jet” Rodriguez in the movie The Sandlot. I watched that VHS tape right into the ground! He was also in The Mighty Ducks 2 and 3 as Luis Mendoza. Nowadays i guess he is a Fire Fighter. He’s still a looker, but doesnt really do it for me anymore. Good thing we didnt get married! ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-status-of-your-childhood-teenage-celebrity-crush-es/528607/26 "2010-02-12T02:24:45Z")
Angela Cartwright [At the age when I started crushing on her.](http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.childstarlets.com/lobby/bios/portraits/angela_cartwright12.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.childstarlets.com/lobby/bios/angela_cartwright.html&usg=__MVqg1KHxSB39nAsOm2VCJS-6-s8=&h=304&w=400&sz=18&hl=en&start=5&um=1&itbs=1&tbnid=UNbnZfNCuSf81M:&tbnh=94&tbnw=124&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dangela%2Bcartwright%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26rlz%3D1C1CHME_enUS358US358%26sa%3DN%26um%3D1) She’s what, six? I was four, but four with taste. In her [Lost in Space,](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QPmmkBvYD5w/Sa7--bcp_wI/AAAAAAAAAIs/4192-VAfLpc/s400/angela_cartwright_mb.jpg) tinfoil jumpsuit days. [And fairly recently.](http://www.reviewgraveyard.com/Interview/04-06-14_AngelaCartwright-01.jpg) Okay, it’s professionally posed and lit and IRL she [looks more like this,](http://www.parstimes.com/gallery/angela_cartwright/01.jpg) but for 57-58 with no work or, apparently, workouts done she’s not all that bad. I had a theory that Mother Tanner, after producing Candace Cameron (cute), Jodi Sweetin (not so cute), and the Olson Twins (hideous infants that did not improve with age) she realized her next child would be Medusa so she killed herself to protect the world. However, I now know that Sweetin’s problem was that [she was not 25.](http://www.bloglifetime.com/images/blogs/7-2007/actress-jodie-sweetin-weds-best-friend.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![thirdwarning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecccb3/32.png) [@thirdwarning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdwarning)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-status-of-your-childhood-teenage-celebrity-crush-es/528607/27 "2010-02-12T02:28:07Z")
Well, Pernell Roberts is recently dead, but the last time I saw a picture of him before that he hadn’t lost anything for me. ---
**Author:** ![MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MPB_in_Salt_Lake)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-status-of-your-childhood-teenage-celebrity-crush-es/528607/28 "2010-02-12T02:38:41Z")
Was I the only one who thought Stephanie Zimbalist (Remington Steele) was really a stunner? What about Jami Gertz? She was in the series Still Standing fairly recently, and she still looks absolutely amazing, even though working on Still Standing had to be quite a come down for her, career wise. ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-status-of-your-childhood-teenage-celebrity-crush-es/528607/29 "2010-02-12T02:42:37Z")
Married to someone young enough to be my daughter. In most cases. (Some are dead.) ---
**Author:** ![infinitii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e8c25b/32.png) [@infinitii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/infinitii)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-status-of-your-childhood-teenage-celebrity-crush-es/528607/30 "2010-02-12T02:52:48Z")
The three I remember most would be Rachael Leigh Cook (Carpool and that drug commercial, followed by the life-altering “She’s All That”), Larisa Oleynick (from “The Secret Life of Alex Mack”), and Natalie Imbruglia (umm…the “Torn” video). Still really liking both Rachael Leigh Cook (who doesn’t work nearly enough, but is still awesome) and Natalie Imbruglia (she’s still making music, and is still as hot as ever), Oleynick I rarely see, but every now and then I’ll catch her on something (most recently on an episode of “Psych”) and remember her. I think she’s still pretty coo. ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-status-of-your-childhood-teenage-celebrity-crush-es/528607/31 "2010-02-12T02:55:21Z")
I still love Darren “Savage Gadren” Hayes. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-status-of-your-childhood-teenage-celebrity-crush-es/528607/32 "2010-02-12T02:59:27Z")
> [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](#): > > Was I the only one who thought Stephanie Zimbalist (Remington Steele) was really a stunner? No, you weren’t. Jodie Foster still looks quite good, but I gather she wouldn’t be interested in me… ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-status-of-your-childhood-teenage-celebrity-crush-es/528607/33 "2010-02-12T03:14:27Z")
My first celebrity crush was Dana Plato from _Diff’rent Strokes_. She’s been dead for 10 years. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-status-of-your-childhood-teenage-celebrity-crush-es/528607/34 "2010-02-12T03:15:55Z")
[Diana Rigg](http://i.thisislondon.co.uk/i/pix/2007/06/riggPA_243x266.jpg) and [Dawn Wells](http://www.celebritycowboy.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/dawn-wells-mugshot-thumb.jpg)are both 70 years old. Both are still handsome women (although I’m sure Dawn Wells looks better when not in a mugshot) but I’m not crushing on them anymore. ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-status-of-your-childhood-teenage-celebrity-crush-es/528607/35 "2010-02-12T03:16:30Z")
Let’s see… I’m 53. Shirley Maclaine: I loved her big time, beginning in 1969. Now, she looks like the 76 year old matron that she is. Jeannie: I think she was killer till a few years ago. Sophia Loren: She was also killer; now, looks like a 60 year old woman. A pretty hot 60 year old woman. And she’s about 76 herself. Sue Ane Langdon: Looks grandmotherly, but if you squint, she may be alright. Oh, Natalie Wood: Well, died 30 years ago. hh ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-status-of-your-childhood-teenage-celebrity-crush-es/528607/36 "2010-02-12T03:19:13Z")
> [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](#): > > What about Jami Gertz? She was in the series Still Standing fairly recently, and she still looks absolutely amazing, even though working on Still Standing had to be quite a come down for her, career wise. What amazed me was that she played second fiddle to Helen Hunt(?) in Twister. She was killer even then, and they barely moused her down enough to make her character only twice as hot as HH. hh ---
**Author:** ![Pray\_for\_peace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Pray\_for\_peace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pray_for_peace)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-status-of-your-childhood-teenage-celebrity-crush-es/528607/37 "2010-02-12T03:22:08Z")
Robert Downey Jr., Johnny Depp, Matt Dillon and Andrew McCarthy - all are still hot!!! ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-status-of-your-childhood-teenage-celebrity-crush-es/528607/38 "2010-02-12T03:37:33Z")
Jenna Von Oy (Six from Blossom): Still very hot Tiffany Amber Thiessen: Still very hot ---
**Author:** ![Small\_Hen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ad7895/32.png) [@Small\_Hen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Hen)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-status-of-your-childhood-teenage-celebrity-crush-es/528607/39 "2010-02-12T03:44:34Z")
Rob Lowe - Not bad, would go there. Mark Paul Gossamer - Same. Ben Affleck - yeah, same. So, in conclusion, I’m not looking to jump them anymore, but hey, wouldn’t begin to turn them down! Oh, God, forgot about Tim Robbins. Oh, I had SUCH a crush on him at 14. I’m not interested anymore. Oddly, my current crush (Robert Downey Jr) was someone I actively hated when I was a young teen. ---
**Author:** ![Jman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jman/32/4416_2.png) [@Jman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jman)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-status-of-your-childhood-teenage-celebrity-crush-es/528607/40 "2010-02-12T04:07:36Z")
Since it’s Olympic time… I had a HUGE crush on Ekaterina Gordeeva, when I was 10 and the '88 Calgary games were on. She’s 6 years older than me, I think. Just looked at some recent pictures and she’s still pretty good looking. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-status-of-your-childhood-teenage-celebrity-crush-es/528607.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-status-of-your-childhood-teenage-celebrity-crush-es/528607.md?page=3)