# Your biggest, non-entertainment industry related crush? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 29, 2008, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-biggest-non-entertainment-industry-related-crush/451064 "2008-05-29T19:50:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2008, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-biggest-non-entertainment-industry-related-crush/451064/1 "2008-05-29T19:50:48Z")
We’re not counting: singers, dancers, ‘entertainers’, actresses, actor, acrobat, or just to narrow the herd - athletes. Because although they’re not strictly for entertainment, they do entertain. Also, it’s more fun to narrow the field. I guess this leaves, politics, press (though TV news is a borderline call), public servants, activists, businesspeople… Me? Almost hands down it’s Valerie Plame. I’d be undercover so fast her head would spin. And yours? ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2008, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-biggest-non-entertainment-industry-related-crush/451064/2 "2008-05-29T19:53:07Z")
[Yulia Tymoshenko](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yulia_Tymoshenko) ---
**Author:** ![psycat90](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@psycat90](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psycat90)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2008, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-biggest-non-entertainment-industry-related-crush/451064/3 "2008-05-29T20:14:55Z")
[Gavin Newsom](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_Newsom) –[Yum.](http://www.wegotbruce.com/weblog/images/artist_newsom.jpg) Even with the hair helmet, although I like to imagine it [down](http://www.sfgate.com/c/pictures/2006/10/06/dd_gavin_bw.jpg) , preferably say…just after a shower. I’ll be in my bunk. ---
**Author:** ![jk1245](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/49beb7/32.png) [@jk1245](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jk1245)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2008, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-biggest-non-entertainment-industry-related-crush/451064/4 "2008-05-29T20:39:26Z")
Co-sign on Valerie Plame. You get sloppy 2nds, Mr. Bus Guy. Also, White House Press Secretary [Dana Perino](http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/071KgSo37Ia4N/340x.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![ignis\_glaciesque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/5f8ce5/32.png) [@ignis\_glaciesque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ignis_glaciesque)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2008, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-biggest-non-entertainment-industry-related-crush/451064/5 "2008-05-29T20:58:57Z")
I second Yulia Tymoshenko. Lawd ha’ mercy! ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2008, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-biggest-non-entertainment-industry-related-crush/451064/6 "2008-05-29T21:11:48Z")
[QUOTE=Mr Bus Guy] I guess this leaves, politics, press (though TV news is a borderline call), public servants, activists, businesspeople… [/QUOTE] Chelsea Clinton. We’re roughly the same age (she’s a year older than me), but I’ve always had a little crush on her. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2008, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-biggest-non-entertainment-industry-related-crush/451064/7 "2008-05-29T21:15:35Z")
[QUOTE=ultrafilter] [Yulia Tymoshenko](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yulia_Tymoshenko) [/QUOTE] Born in _1960?!!!_ :eek: I respectfully nominate [Michaël Jean](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micha%C3%ABlle_Jean). ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2008, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-biggest-non-entertainment-industry-related-crush/451064/8 "2008-05-29T21:30:07Z")
[Soledad O’Brien](http://edition.cnn.com/CNN/anchors_reporters/obrien.soledad.html) Grrrowwllll!!! ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2008, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-biggest-non-entertainment-industry-related-crush/451064/9 "2008-05-29T21:30:46Z")
For me, it was [Dominique Sachse](http://www.click2houston.com/station/278383/detail.html) on KPRC in Houston, about 10 years ago. (yes, I know she’s still there, but not quite so stunningly hot as she was) ---
**Author:** ![WormTheRed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/bbe5ce/32.png) [@WormTheRed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WormTheRed)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2008, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-biggest-non-entertainment-industry-related-crush/451064/10 "2008-05-29T22:13:51Z")
Without a doubt, Princess [Madeleine Bernadotte](http://img120.imageshack.us/img120/8941/princessyk4.jpg) of Sweden! She da bomb! ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2008, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-biggest-non-entertainment-industry-related-crush/451064/11 "2008-05-30T00:26:33Z")
[QUOTE=jk1245] Co-sign on Valerie Plame. You get sloppy 2nds, Mr. Bus Guy. Also, White House Press Secretary [Dana Perino](http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/071KgSo37Ia4N/340x.jpg). [/QUOTE] She almost had me, right until I read this: > [@wiki](#): > > In December 2007, in an appearance on NPR’s radio program “Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me”, Perino admitted that she had **no idea what the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Bay of Pigs incident was**. [5] Wide public outcry that questioned her competence was the result. My bolding. I mean, cute and blonde only gets you so far in life… ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2008, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-biggest-non-entertainment-industry-related-crush/451064/12 "2008-05-30T01:19:21Z")
[QUOTE=WormTheRed] Without a doubt, Princess [Madeleine Bernadotte](http://img120.imageshack.us/img120/8941/princessyk4.jpg) of Sweden! She da bomb! [/QUOTE] Okay, you’ve convinced me. ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2008, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-biggest-non-entertainment-industry-related-crush/451064/13 "2008-05-30T01:52:57Z")
[QUOTE=Sunspace] Okay, you’ve convinced me. [/QUOTE] Good fun: Go to her Wiki page, have Google translate it into english. Of course, now I forget which link I used, but at the bottom of somewhere, I found this gem. > [@funky Wiki english translation](#): > > Like her siblings think she was about to enter the wild. Hon gör långpromenader och åker skidor med stor förtjusning. She is bald and go skiing with great enthusiasm. ---
**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2008, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-biggest-non-entertainment-industry-related-crush/451064/14 "2008-05-30T02:41:45Z")
Not personally, but I’ve seen a number of women (and oh so inclined men) on this board admit an attraction to [Mahmoud Ahmadinejad](http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/MahmoudAhmadinejadD300.jpg). Hubba hubba. ---
**Author:** ![Mongo\_Ponton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Mongo\_Ponton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mongo_Ponton)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2008, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-biggest-non-entertainment-industry-related-crush/451064/15 "2008-05-30T02:46:05Z")
Her Highness of Hot is right there at the top. And it’s a well documented fact that Swedish Princesses dig Delaware! I’ve always thought Nora O’Donnell was the best looking woman on television, entertainer or not. At least since that Sally Star crush every boy in the Delaware Valley had all through the 60’s. ---
**Author:** ![Mahna\_Mahna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e47c2d/32.png) [@Mahna\_Mahna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahna_Mahna)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2008, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-biggest-non-entertainment-industry-related-crush/451064/16 "2008-05-30T02:50:00Z")
[Ian [del]HandsomeManThing[/del] Hanomansing](http://www.blogto.com/fashion_style/2005/11/ian_hanomansing/) of CBC News. Swoon. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2008, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-biggest-non-entertainment-industry-related-crush/451064/17 "2008-05-30T02:51:54Z")
[Rachel Sklar](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Sklar) of Huffington Post and various other media. I actually wrote her once asking to be considered for an “eligible man” search she was doing for [mediabistro.com](http://mediabistro.com); sadly it all came to naught, else I would be posting now as **Beware of Sklar-Doug**. ☹ ---
**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:** [May 30, 2008, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-biggest-non-entertainment-industry-related-crush/451064/18 "2008-05-30T03:09:49Z")
No love for [Elizabeth Kucinich](http://blog.cleveland.com/earlyedition/beth.jpg)? She almost got me to vote for her husband! ---
**Author:** ![Lok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e8c25b/32.png) [@Lok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lok)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2008, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-biggest-non-entertainment-industry-related-crush/451064/19 "2008-05-30T03:17:40Z")
[Kyra Phillips](http://edition.cnn.com/CNN/anchors_reporters/phillips.kyra.html), although I prefer her hair shorter, if for no other reason then her [sense of humor](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/01/30/cnns-kyra-phillips-jokes_n_84113.html). ---
**Author:** ![Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sleeps_With_Butterflies)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2008, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-biggest-non-entertainment-industry-related-crush/451064/20 "2008-05-30T03:27:50Z")
Anderson Cooper, my older guy crush. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-biggest-non-entertainment-industry-related-crush/451064.md?page=2)