# Your first celebrity crush **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 14, 2004, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-celebrity-crush/255032 "2004-07-14T05:44:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![FisherQueen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@FisherQueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FisherQueen)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2004, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-celebrity-crush/255032/21 "2004-07-14T12:22:56Z")
Luke Duke. Not Bo, just Luke. I’m a little bit embarrassed to admit this now, but there it is. ---
**Author:** ![mcms\_cricket](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@mcms\_cricket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mcms_cricket)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2004, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-celebrity-crush/255032/22 "2004-07-14T12:27:37Z")
Actually I’ve gone most of my 36 years without ever having a celebrity crush. In fact, the whole idea seemed kind of alien to me. I just didn’t get it. Then, I watched the first Horatio Hornblower movie… and now, I Get It. I dunno why, but something about Ioan Gruffudd just makes my heart beat a bit faster. I think he’s gorgeous. Cricket ---
**Author:** ![Harborwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Harborwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harborwolf)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2004, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-celebrity-crush/255032/23 "2004-07-14T12:33:07Z")
Jennifer Love Hewitt. I had a thing for her way back when she was on Kids Incorporated. This was when I was an unincorporated kid of course. 😉 I thought she was the greatest thing that I had ever seen. Still do. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2004, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-celebrity-crush/255032/24 "2004-07-14T12:39:45Z")
Never had one, actually. I like the perfomances, but I was never into the whole Celebrity-Worship thing. ---
**Author:** ![Mauvaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mauvaise/32/11084_2.png) [@Mauvaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mauvaise)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2004, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-celebrity-crush/255032/25 "2004-07-14T12:53:12Z")
Shaun Cassidy. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2004, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-celebrity-crush/255032/26 "2004-07-14T13:04:07Z")
[Cynthia Gibb](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001269/). ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2004, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-celebrity-crush/255032/27 "2004-07-14T13:04:22Z")
From the first time they were on the Sullivan show, I had such a thing for John Lennon. I’ve always been able to spot real talent. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Carter_of_Mars)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2004, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-celebrity-crush/255032/28 "2004-07-14T13:15:29Z")
The first time I saw the 1955 movie “Rebel Without a Cause” I was 12 years old. If [Natalie Wood](http://www.nataliewoodonline.com/) had kissed me the way she kissed James Dean I would have willingly died on the spot as One Happy Boy! ---
**Author:** ![TwoTrouts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a9adbd/32.png) [@TwoTrouts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwoTrouts)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2004, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-celebrity-crush/255032/29 "2004-07-14T13:17:43Z")
[Annette Funicello](http://www.mousestars.com/steve/annette/afmouse1.htm) from the Mousketeers. Gad! Am I really that old??? ---
**Author:** ![chrisk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@chrisk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisk)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2004, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-celebrity-crush/255032/30 "2004-07-14T13:22:25Z")
IIRC, Lisa Dean Ryan from Doogie Howser 😃 (Followed fairly soon by Jennie Garth in the early years of 90210… and more than twelve years later she’s still quite the babe. 🙂 ) ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2004, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-celebrity-crush/255032/31 "2004-07-14T13:31:52Z")
[Penelope Pitstop](http://www.hotink.com/wacky/pitstop/) ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2004, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-celebrity-crush/255032/32 "2004-07-14T13:43:42Z")
Emma Peel in a leather jumpsuit. Grrrrrrwwllll. I was a bit deviant even as a toddler. ---
**Author:** ![DeVena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dec6dc/32.png) [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2004, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-celebrity-crush/255032/33 "2004-07-14T13:47:08Z")
Chalk another one up for Shaun Cassidy. \ ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2004, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-celebrity-crush/255032/34 "2004-07-14T13:49:35Z")
Mark Hamill. To this day, I would totally do Luke Skywalker. I spent a few years wishing I was Princess Leia, then _RotJ_ came out and I changed my mind about wanting to be her. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![N.Sane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f19dbf/32.png) [@N.Sane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N.Sane)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2004, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-celebrity-crush/255032/35 "2004-07-14T14:01:21Z")
Well, when I was a wee thing, I had a serious thing for Speed Racer. :o If you’re talking about actual, you know, humans, it would probably be David Cassidy. The way he sang the word “you” like it was “ewe” made my heart flutter. ---
**Author:** ![Izzybella](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e56c9b/32.png) [@Izzybella](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Izzybella)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2004, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-celebrity-crush/255032/36 "2004-07-14T14:15:14Z")
When I was ten I had a little thing for Ricky Schroeder. At 15, it was Johnny Depp in 21 Jump Street. (Alias obviously has excellent taste…) ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2004, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-celebrity-crush/255032/37 "2004-07-14T14:32:13Z")
As a very young girl it was Jackson-5 era Michael Jackson. Man, he had the moves, he could sing. Wow. Donnie Osmond wasn’t good enough to comb out Michael’s afro. 😉 After MJ it was Cat Stevens. Sexy, dreamy eyes. StG ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2004, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-celebrity-crush/255032/38 "2004-07-14T14:49:00Z")
How in the hell can I be the first person to say Madonna?? We’re talking circa 1984 or so, the “Like a Virgin” era. Oh, how my 11 year old heart would flutter. Also, Alyssa Milano when she was in “Who’s the boss?”. Seeing as how she dried up, so to speak, I had pretty good taste for an 11 year old. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2004, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-celebrity-crush/255032/39 "2004-07-14T15:09:03Z")
It was a weird tie between Lisa Gerritson and Mary Tyler Moore. ---
**Author:** ![Motorgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@Motorgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Motorgirl)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2004, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-celebrity-crush/255032/40 "2004-07-14T15:17:48Z")
It’s a toss up. When I was 8 years old I had super painful crushes on Elvis (this was after he died, mind you!) and a combination of Davy & Mickey from the Monkees. The show was in syndication on a local channel one summer. So, in 1978, I was in love with 1 dead guy, plus 2 guys from a 60s television show. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-celebrity-crush/255032.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-celebrity-crush/255032.md?page=3)