# Who is the oldest celebrity that you are attracted to? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 6, 2010, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-oldest-celebrity-that-you-are-attracted-to/523939 "2010-01-06T19:28:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![ErinPuff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dbc845/32.png) [@ErinPuff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ErinPuff)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2010, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-oldest-celebrity-that-you-are-attracted-to/523939/81 "2010-01-07T12:51:43Z")
> [@ErinPuff](#): > > Nichelle Nichols (77). Runners-up: Patrick Stewart (69) and Elisabeth Sladen (61). I’m 23, for the record. ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2010, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-oldest-celebrity-that-you-are-attracted-to/523939/82 "2010-01-07T12:53:58Z")
Joey Heatherton - 65 - for those who remember the Serta Mattress commercials. I didn’t know what a Serta was when I was a kid but I know I wanted one desperately. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2010, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-oldest-celebrity-that-you-are-attracted-to/523939/83 "2010-01-07T13:13:18Z")
Add Al Pacino and David Bowie to my list too. And of course everyone knows I’d give my left arm to do Alice. 😃 I’m 42. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2010, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-oldest-celebrity-that-you-are-attracted-to/523939/84 "2010-01-07T13:19:41Z")
I’m 39, but ever since I first saw Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, I wanted Gene Wilder more than all the candy in the world. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Daerlyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Daerlyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daerlyn)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2010, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-oldest-celebrity-that-you-are-attracted-to/523939/85 "2010-01-07T14:30:01Z")
I’ll take (now both Sirs) Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellan, with a side of Leonard Nimoy . . . ---
**Author:** ![crypto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@crypto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crypto)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2010, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-oldest-celebrity-that-you-are-attracted-to/523939/86 "2010-01-07T14:35:52Z")
Raquel Welch is my answer… she’s been my fantasy cougar for most of my life. She’s now what, 69? She’s still smokin’! ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2010, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-oldest-celebrity-that-you-are-attracted-to/523939/87 "2010-01-07T14:50:04Z")
I’m choosing to answer this by picking the oldest celebrity I actively lust after, as opposed to celebrity I would do. Michelle Pfeiffer is still hot – smokin’ hot for her age – but I don’t really get revved up for her. Marissa Tomei, at 45, OTOH, I drool over. I’m 39. Yeah, yeah, a guy who isn’t really into older women. Big surprise. ---
**Author:** ![tumbleddown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tumbleddown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tumbleddown)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2010, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-oldest-celebrity-that-you-are-attracted-to/523939/88 "2010-01-07T16:37:16Z")
Oh, Leonard Nimoy! Absolutely able to live long and prosper in my pants, at age 78. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2010, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-oldest-celebrity-that-you-are-attracted-to/523939/89 "2010-01-07T17:31:08Z")
[Bernadette Peters](http://www.topnews.in/files/images/Bernadette-Peters4.jpeg). ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2010, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-oldest-celebrity-that-you-are-attracted-to/523939/90 "2010-01-07T17:37:50Z")
> [@wierdaaron](#): > > I dunno, probably Jennifer Garner. She’s 37. I’m 23. Forbidden love! That was the age difference between my first girlfriend and myself (I was 18, she was 32). My folks were _not_ happy. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2010, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-oldest-celebrity-that-you-are-attracted-to/523939/91 "2010-01-07T17:45:51Z")
Dana Delaney is in her mid-50’s and still smokin’. ---
**Author:** ![Erdosain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/erdosain/32/7284_2.png) [@Erdosain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Erdosain)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2010, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-oldest-celebrity-that-you-are-attracted-to/523939/92 "2010-01-07T17:49:10Z")
I actually forgot the oldest one on my list: Nigella Lawson, 50. She doesn’t even have to cook, although I certainly wouldn’t object. ---
**Author:** ![lost4life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@lost4life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost4life)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2010, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-oldest-celebrity-that-you-are-attracted-to/523939/93 "2010-01-07T17:58:54Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > Kate Bush (51) and Isabella Rosellini (57) are it for me, I think. Seconded, along with a lot already listed. To step it up a few decades, I nominate **Sally Kellerman** at 72. Still looking like Hotlips, and her shower scene in MASH is tattooed in my brain. ---
**Author:** ![Cuckoorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Cuckoorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cuckoorex)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2010, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-oldest-celebrity-that-you-are-attracted-to/523939/94 "2010-01-07T18:10:39Z")
Salma Hayek (44) ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2010, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-oldest-celebrity-that-you-are-attracted-to/523939/95 "2010-01-07T18:13:40Z")
Seconding Timothy Dalton – they just don’t make men like that any more. He’s 63 and I’m 44. ---
**Author:** ![Amber\_in\_Treasury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bc79bd/32.png) [@Amber\_in\_Treasury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amber_in_Treasury)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2010, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-oldest-celebrity-that-you-are-attracted-to/523939/96 "2010-01-07T18:48:45Z")
Does it count if they’d be pushing 70 now if they were alive - but unfortunately they died at 43? [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gehGvW-RIkU) ---
**Author:** ![Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/soul_brother_number_two/32/3515_2.png) [@Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soul_Brother_Number_Two)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2010, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-oldest-celebrity-that-you-are-attracted-to/523939/97 "2010-01-07T18:51:36Z")
> [@Short\_Guy](#): > > Probably [Mary Steenburgen](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005460/), 56 now, although recent pictures suggest some sort of record amount of Botox. I blame _Back to the Future part 3_ for the attraction. Agreed. She was the MILFiest MILF I ever did see in Step Brothers. Really attractive. And not Botoxed up at all, like it seems now. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2010, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-oldest-celebrity-that-you-are-attracted-to/523939/98 "2010-01-07T18:55:02Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > [Bernadette Peters](http://www.topnews.in/files/images/Bernadette-Peters4.jpeg). In person, and up-close, she looks even better. My chorus performed with her a couple of years ago, just after she turned 60. Up-close, you can tell she’s had work done (no 60-year-old looks \*\*\*that \*\*\*great), but it was done very subtly. They softened her “smile lines” without removing them. And yes, she’s as nice in person as you’d think. If I were straight, she’d be at the top of my list. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2010, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-oldest-celebrity-that-you-are-attracted-to/523939/99 "2010-01-07T18:57:33Z")
> [@Amber\_in\_Treasury](#): > > Does it count if they’d be pushing 70 now if they were alive - but unfortunately they died at 43? > > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gehGvW-RIkU&feature=PlayList&p=97E1008536B973B4&playnext=1&playnext\_from=PL&index=78](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gehGvW-RIkU&feature=PlayList&p=97E1008536B973B4&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=78) Well, if that counts, I’ll have to add George Harrison, Frank Zappa and Leslie Howard. ---
**Author:** ![Mrs.Cake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/2acd7d/32.png) [@Mrs.Cake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mrs.Cake)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2010, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-oldest-celebrity-that-you-are-attracted-to/523939/100 "2010-01-07T18:58:10Z")
The oldest on my list was Derek Jacobi - 71. I’m 47. I’d second The Daltonator, but I think I’m too old for him. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-oldest-celebrity-that-you-are-attracted-to/523939.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-oldest-celebrity-that-you-are-attracted-to/523939.md?page=6)