# Your Celebrity Crushes: As A Kid, Teenager And Today **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 20, 2010, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-celebrity-crushes-as-a-kid-teenager-and-today/554374 "2010-09-20T06:28:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-celebrity-crushes-as-a-kid-teenager-and-today/554374/41 "2010-09-21T18:02:10Z")
Kid: Elizabeth Sladen. There’s a Dr. Who story where she wears this tight bodice and pants throughout that probably inspired the first tinglings in my pubescent nethers. Teen: Samantha Fox Adult: Salma Hayek ---
**Author:** ![KRC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@KRC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KRC)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-celebrity-crushes-as-a-kid-teenager-and-today/554374/42 "2010-09-21T19:55:55Z")
As a kid: No one. Teenager: Jimmy Page Late Teen/Young adult: Johnny Rotten and Yassir Arafat Adult: Not sure. There was one crush but he wasn’t exactly a celebrity and anyway he was dead. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-celebrity-crushes-as-a-kid-teenager-and-today/554374/43 "2010-09-21T20:12:19Z")
> [@KRC](#): > > …Late Teen/Young adult: Johnny Rotten and Yassir Arafat… Now _there’s_ some imaginary pron I don’t need to see. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Fried\_Dough\_Ho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a88e57/32.png) [@Fried\_Dough\_Ho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fried_Dough_Ho)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-celebrity-crushes-as-a-kid-teenager-and-today/554374/44 "2010-09-21T20:15:32Z")
Childhood puppy love: Donny Osmond and Elton John Adolescent fantasies: Anthony Hopkins (circa _Magic_) Now: Gabriel Byrne and Cìarin Hinds ---
**Author:** ![BwanaBob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bwanabob/32/2985_2.png) [@BwanaBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BwanaBob)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-celebrity-crushes-as-a-kid-teenager-and-today/554374/45 "2010-09-21T21:07:08Z")
Kid: Elizabeth Montgomery from Bewitched and Angela Cartwright from Lost and Space Teen: Dawn Wells from Gilligan’s Island, Barbara Eden from Jeannie Today: Grace Park (Battlestar Galactica), Helen Mirren ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-celebrity-crushes-as-a-kid-teenager-and-today/554374/46 "2010-09-21T21:43:39Z")
Kid: Bob Denver, Leif Garrett Teen: John Cusack Now: Alice Cooper ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-celebrity-crushes-as-a-kid-teenager-and-today/554374/47 "2010-09-21T22:06:56Z")
> [@faithfool](#): > > Now: Alice Cooper Ooh, I forgot about Alice. Yeah, I kind of have a crush on him too. 🙂 ---
**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:** [September 21, 2010, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-celebrity-crushes-as-a-kid-teenager-and-today/554374/48 "2010-09-21T22:30:56Z")
I guess I should add Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Of course one of us would have to be lobotomized, so I wouldn’t come in contact with the actual man. Oh, and I also forgot Leonard Nimoy . . . unconditionally. ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-celebrity-crushes-as-a-kid-teenager-and-today/554374/49 "2010-09-21T22:32:26Z")
Kid: Batgirl aka Yvonne Craig Teenager: Olivia Newton-John Today: Halle Berry ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-celebrity-crushes-as-a-kid-teenager-and-today/554374/50 "2010-09-21T22:35:55Z")
Kid: Wilma Deering, Agent 99 Teenager: Elizabeth Shue, Jennifer Connelly Adult: Jewel Staite, Jordanna Brewster, Jennifer Connelly ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-celebrity-crushes-as-a-kid-teenager-and-today/554374/51 "2010-09-21T22:55:42Z")
Kid: Erin Gray, maybe Teenager: Kathy Ireland, definitely Today: Catherine Zeta-Jones, maybe ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-celebrity-crushes-as-a-kid-teenager-and-today/554374/52 "2010-09-21T23:04:08Z")
> [@hogarth](#): > > Kid: Erin Gray, maybe… I forgot about Erin, the only possible reason to watch _Buck Rogers_. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-celebrity-crushes-as-a-kid-teenager-and-today/554374/53 "2010-09-21T23:27:00Z")
> [@winterhawk11](#): > > > [@faithfool](#): > > > > Now: Alice Cooper > > Ooh, I forgot about Alice. Yeah, I kind of have a crush on him too. 🙂 You know I look just like him, right? ---
**Author:** ![Ferd\_Burfel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecccb3/32.png) [@Ferd\_Burfel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferd_Burfel)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2010, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-celebrity-crushes-as-a-kid-teenager-and-today/554374/54 "2010-09-22T02:25:33Z")
As a kid, the only girl I had a crush on was Becky Thatcher in **Tom Sawyer**. No, not the movie, the Mark Twain novel. As a teenager, I secretly adored Deborah Walley (Beach movies), Sally Field (The Flying Nun), Yvonne Craig (TV’s Batgirl plus a couple of Elvis movies), and Diana Rigg (Emma Peel). As an adult, I crushed on Valerie Bertinelli, Marie Osmond, and that girl from the Rosetta Stone commercial. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2010, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-celebrity-crushes-as-a-kid-teenager-and-today/554374/55 "2010-09-22T02:54:25Z")
Kid: Ty Miller Teen: Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Andrew Shue, Gavin Rossdale Now: Andrew Lee Potts, Alexander Skarsgård ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2010, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-celebrity-crushes-as-a-kid-teenager-and-today/554374/56 "2010-09-22T19:00:22Z")
> [@Ferd\_Burfel](#): > > …Yvonne Craig (TV’s Batgirl plus a couple of Elvis movies)… You knew she played an Orion woman on _Star Trek_, too, right?: [Marta | Memory Alpha | Fandom](http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Marta) ---
**Author:** ![BobArrgh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobarrgh/32/2881_2.png) [@BobArrgh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobArrgh)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2010, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-celebrity-crushes-as-a-kid-teenager-and-today/554374/57 "2010-09-22T21:24:30Z")
Early teens: Valerie Bertinelli (_One Day at a Time_) Early 20s: Dana Delaney, Marg Helgenberger (both in \*China Beach[/]) Today: Lauren Graham and Erika Christensen (both in _Parenthood_), Emily Procter (_CSI: Miami_, Marg Helgenberger (_CSI_) ---
**Author:** ![installLSC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/54ee81/32.png) [@installLSC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/installLSC)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2010, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-celebrity-crushes-as-a-kid-teenager-and-today/554374/58 "2010-09-25T05:20:06Z")
Kid: [Susan Richardson](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_ILscYXj1E&p=567AD0494A31E289&playnext=1&index=18) and [Laurie Walters](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSeeuvg7t-s&feature=fvst) on “Eight is Enough”, Catherine Bach, Maureen McCormick, Tina Louise and Dawn Wells. Teenager:Kinda unusual beacause I was heavily into movies from the forties and fifties when I was a teenager in the early 90s. I thought Betty Grable and Lana Turner were way hotter than whatever the teen idols of the day were. Today:Zooey Deschanel, Jenny Lewis, Regina Spektor, Christina Hendricks. ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2010, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-celebrity-crushes-as-a-kid-teenager-and-today/554374/59 "2010-09-25T05:34:03Z")
Kid: David Cassidy and Barry Williams Teenager: Scott Baio Adult: Nobody because I’ve been dating Rafael Nadal for the last couple of years. ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2010, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-celebrity-crushes-as-a-kid-teenager-and-today/554374/60 "2010-09-25T05:51:06Z")
Childhood: Davy Jones, progressing to Bobby Sherman for about 10 seconds, then David Cassidy for a good long while. Teens: Robert Plant and David Bowie. Young Adulthood: No one. The last ten years: Spike (not James Marsters. Spike. There’s a difference.) and Matthew Gray Gubler. And in my own age group: Jeff Bridges. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-celebrity-crushes-as-a-kid-teenager-and-today/554374.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-celebrity-crushes-as-a-kid-teenager-and-today/554374.md?page=4)