# Your Celebrity Crush That Makes Others Say "WTF?" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 29, 2008, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-celebrity-crush-that-makes-others-say-wtf/470140 "2008-10-29T20:15:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![baileygrrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19b73/32.png) [@baileygrrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/baileygrrrl)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2008, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-celebrity-crush-that-makes-others-say-wtf/470140/141 "2008-10-31T18:02:21Z")
Thom Yorke of Radiohead. ---
**Author:** ![Smitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@Smitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smitty)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2008, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-celebrity-crush-that-makes-others-say-wtf/470140/142 "2008-10-31T18:26:07Z")
Grace Jones. She’s not all that pretty, but I bet she’d fuck me like my dick had the only available antidote. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![sherrylynn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3be4f8/32.png) [@sherrylynn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sherrylynn)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2008, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-celebrity-crush-that-makes-others-say-wtf/470140/143 "2008-10-31T19:06:29Z")
Anthony Hopkins - even in Silence of the Lambs. Sick, I know ---
**Author:** ![Sapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Sapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapo)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2008, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-celebrity-crush-that-makes-others-say-wtf/470140/144 "2008-10-31T19:13:03Z")
Mine are uncommon but not inexplicable. Jennifer Connely Alyssa Milano Christina Applegate The funny thing is that they are all roughly my age and they were all child stars and I have liked them all since childhood. Out of the real of superstardom, I used to crush on girls that were more cute than hot and some got some raised eyebrows from friends. ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2008, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-celebrity-crush-that-makes-others-say-wtf/470140/145 "2008-10-31T19:38:27Z")
I had a big-ass crush on Tina Fey back in the day before she got such an outpouring of geek love from the rest of the world. Basically, I had a crush on Tina Fey before it was cool to have a crush on Tina Fey. Now … oh, maybe Kerri Kenney-Silver. “You have a crush on Lieutenant Weigel?” There’s also the Vonage commercial woman, only because she looks and sounds almost _exactly_ like an old ex. Then again, because the old ex does acting and voiceover work, the Vonage Girl may really _be_ my ex. ---
**Author:** ![Satellite\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Satellite\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satellite_Guy)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2008, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-celebrity-crush-that-makes-others-say-wtf/470140/146 "2008-11-01T01:06:07Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > [Matthew Gray Gubler](http://www.google.com/search?q=matthew+gray+gubler&hl=en&rlz=1T4RNWI_en___US221&sa=2) from _Criminal Minds_. I’m a huge Criminal Minds fan, and for me, it’s [Penelope Garcia!!](http://l.yimg.com/img.tv.yahoo.com/tv/us/img/site/35/82/0000043582_20071002100741.jpg) (Kirsten Vangsness) It’s so much the personality too, though… she’s so quirky and fun! I just found out she came out… bummer for me… S^G ---
**Author:** ![Gail](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Gail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gail)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2008, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-celebrity-crush-that-makes-others-say-wtf/470140/147 "2008-11-01T01:13:40Z")
I have a rock and roll crush on Sebastian Bach…I never knew he existed until Gilmore Girls. ---
**Author:** ![Broken\_Wind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Broken\_Wind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broken_Wind)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2008, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-celebrity-crush-that-makes-others-say-wtf/470140/148 "2008-11-01T01:23:06Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > So the reaction to Campbell Brown is “WTF are you doing checking out CNN for the babes?” Cuz she’s got brains. _Sexy, sexy brains._ I like me some brains. ---
**Author:** ![ginman999](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e495f1/32.png) [@ginman999](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ginman999)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2008, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-celebrity-crush-that-makes-others-say-wtf/470140/149 "2008-11-01T02:58:48Z")
Victoria Osteen, only if it involves animals or other women. ---
**Author:** ![ginman999](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e495f1/32.png) [@ginman999](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ginman999)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2008, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-celebrity-crush-that-makes-others-say-wtf/470140/150 "2008-11-01T03:12:44Z")
> [@Sunshine\_and\_Smiles](#): > > Paris Hilton. > > I can’t really explain it, but oh damn. > > Terrible, terrible things I would do. I would stand in that line as well ---
**Author:** ![BrassyPhrase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea666f/32.png) [@BrassyPhrase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrassyPhrase)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2008, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-celebrity-crush-that-makes-others-say-wtf/470140/151 "2008-11-01T03:36:38Z")
> [@Campion](#): > > Lyle Lovett, although he’s not what one would call classicly good-looking. His face is all wrinkled up, and his kinky hair is taller than I am, and his grin is crooked like half his face doesn’t work … but I’d run away with him in a New York minute if he crooked his little finger at me. I second that, and thank you for the bravery of the admission. I personally would go gay for Janeane Garofalo. It’s just a weird thing. (As far as I know she’s straight and I’m straight, but she just wows me.) ---
**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:** [November 1, 2008, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-celebrity-crush-that-makes-others-say-wtf/470140/152 "2008-11-01T05:09:52Z")
> [@Satellite\_Guy](#): > > I’m a huge Criminal Minds fan, and for me, it’s [Penelope Garcia!!](http://l.yimg.com/img.tv.yahoo.com/tv/us/img/site/35/82/0000043582_20071002100741.jpg) (Kirsten Vangsness) 😕 Okay, I’ll admit that I’m an old guy from a different, and more Central European, tradition, but when were she and Mary Lynn Rajskub NOT beautiful women? _24_ ugged down (but not completely–see her other work) Rajskub and Vangsness is of a more international taste, but I see no reason to apologize. ---
**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:** [November 1, 2008, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-celebrity-crush-that-makes-others-say-wtf/470140/153 "2008-11-01T05:15:49Z")
> [@BrassyPhrase](#): > > I personally would go gay for Janeane Garofalo. And I would go straight (wait a tic: wasn’t I already straight?) for her. The concept of “The Truth About Cats and Dogs” didn’t work for me because I couldn’t see how Uma Thurman was hotter than Janeane Garofalo. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2008, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-celebrity-crush-that-makes-others-say-wtf/470140/154 "2008-11-01T13:05:24Z")
> [@gonzomax](#): > > Back when The Donna Reed Show was on ,I lusted after her and Shelly Fabraes her TV daughter at the same time. Might be a little sick. Well, doing a Mom & her daughter isn’t kosher, but those two- it’s understandable! So I’ll WTF WTF them both? They were both hotties. I’ll also WTF WTF Mary Steenburgen. Loved her since TIME AFTER TIME. ---
**Author:** ![melodyharmonius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/melodyharmonius/32/21310_2.png) [@melodyharmonius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/melodyharmonius)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2008, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-celebrity-crush-that-makes-others-say-wtf/470140/155 "2008-11-01T13:11:30Z")
For the ones who questioned John Goodman, I have only to say this: There is a scene in Roseanne in the first few seasons where John Goodman hoists himself up to sit on the kitchen counter and is leaning forward on his hands, swinging his legs, talking cute with Roseanne. And I would do him _right then_. In front of her even. _(or I would have before I met Dewey but we are assuming JG is on my list for this scenario.)_ ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2008, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-celebrity-crush-that-makes-others-say-wtf/470140/156 "2008-11-01T15:40:17Z")
Morgan Freeman. Seriously. He looks like he would be an awesome lover. So what if he’s a 71 year old black man and I’m a 41 year old white girl? I know he’d rock my world. He had me at “Electric Company.” 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![lorene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/65b543/32.png) [@lorene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorene)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2008, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-celebrity-crush-that-makes-others-say-wtf/470140/157 "2008-11-01T21:45:31Z")
I will go with **pbbth** and say Peter Dinklage. He has an amazing voice, and the fact that he’s closer to my boobs is an advantage, as far as I’m concerned. ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2008, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-celebrity-crush-that-makes-others-say-wtf/470140/158 "2008-11-01T22:18:13Z")
> [@greatshakes](#): > > I forgot her name, but she was the woman that played Roseanne’s sister, Jackie. I went crazy over her when she was in the movie JFK, and had that 60s MILF hairdo. > Also, Courtney Love. > Also, Sarah/Sandra? Bernhardt. > That’s it for now. Laurie Metcalf. [http://www.wchstv.com/abc/thenormshow/lauriemetcalf.jpg](http://www.wchstv.com/abc/thenormshow/lauriemetcalf.jpg) Lisa Gerritsen (Bess, Phyllis’s daughter on the Mary Tyler Moore show). She was older than me but sort of age-regressed for TV or something. My sister said Lisa had a smooshed face ☹ ETA and Laurie Metcalf played the wacky neighbor in “Uncle Buck.” ---
**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:** [November 1, 2008, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-celebrity-crush-that-makes-others-say-wtf/470140/159 "2008-11-01T23:16:52Z")
I caught Laurie Metcalf on stage in New York in _November_ with Nathan Lane. She was playing a frizzy neurotic character, but she has a really nice, toned body that was hard not to notice. ---
**Author:** ![Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aji_de_gallina/32/260_2.png) [@Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aji_de_Gallina)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2008, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-celebrity-crush-that-makes-others-say-wtf/470140/160 "2008-11-02T01:56:56Z")
> [@Sapo](#): > > Mine are uncommon but not inexplicable. > > Jennifer Connely > Alyssa Milano > Christina Applegate If ANy of them got a WTF? from any your friends you’ve been hanging with a bunch really hardcore gays (most gays I know would tell them they are hot). There is absolutely nothig WTF-ish about them [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-celebrity-crush-that-makes-others-say-wtf/470140.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-celebrity-crush-that-makes-others-say-wtf/470140.md?page=9)