# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2004, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-celebrity-crush/255032/41 "2004-07-14T15:27:38Z")
I also have to agree with Amy-Jo Johnson. A bunch of my friends thought I was weird for having a crush on the Pink Ranger, but damn she was cute! However, my first real celebrity crush was probably [Kelly McGillis](http://www.starprops.com/kellytopgun.jpg), seeing as I was obsessed with the movie _Top Gun_ for a very long time. ---
**Author:** ![Judith\_Prietht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b19c9b/32.png) [@Judith\_Prietht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Judith_Prietht)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2004, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-celebrity-crush/255032/42 "2004-07-14T15:48:55Z")
[Olympic speed skater Eric Heiden](http://www.olympic.org/uk/athletes/heroes/bio_uk.asp?PAR_I_ID=70356), who won five gold medals in the 1980 Lake Placid Games. I watched him skate and clipped his results from the paper, with safety scissors, no doubt, as I was six years old. On more adult reflection, he has a rather bulbous nose and reminds me a bit of Ashton Kutcher, but I did save a recent Gap ad that featured Eric Heiden and probably some other athletes. ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2004, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-celebrity-crush/255032/43 "2004-07-14T15:49:16Z")
> [@Alias](#): > > Michael J. Fox was another crush of mine. I must have watched Teen Wolf and Back to the Future every weekend when I was a kid. I second that emotion! 🙂 I was 8 or 9 when _Midnight Madness_ came out, but the whole thing didn’t really start for me until _Family Ties_ premiered 2 years later…by the time _Back to the Future_ and _Teen Wolf_ were released I had a huge crush on Michael J. Fox that didn’t go away until he married Tracy (though I’m still a big fan). I even assembled a Michael J. Fox scrapbook, which I still have to this very day (though it’s well-hidden 😉 ). The only letter I’ve ever written to a celebrity was to him: his publicist replied with a promotional postcard from _Light of Day_, which my friends and I scrutinized to determine whether MJF’s signature was ‘real.’ {grin} Michael J. Fox was also responsible for my love of _Night Court_: I watched that show for the first time because I knew he was going to guest star (in early '84), and I got hooked. As for _21 Jump Street_, I always had a bigger crush on Peter DeLuise than Johnny Depp…and, while these days I certainly appreciate Johnny’s charms, I still like seeing the DeLuise boys on _Stargate SG-1_. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2004, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-celebrity-crush/255032/44 "2004-07-14T15:56:08Z")
Tiffani Amber Thiessen - Kelly Kapowski from _Saved by the Bell_. I loved her so much that when she joined the cast of 90210, I actually watched it for a season or so and thought I would die of ecstasy when I saw her in a black lace bra. I still have a huge crush on her now. ---
**Author:** ![Susie\_Derkins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47774/32.png) [@Susie\_Derkins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Susie_Derkins)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2004, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-celebrity-crush/255032/45 "2004-07-14T16:04:51Z")
Fonzie, baby! I still have the t-shirt I wore when I was 5 or so. It is so _little_, and on the front there’s the Fonz giving two thumbs up with “Aaaaaaaaaaaay” across the bottom. _sigh_ I love Henry Winkler to this day. ---
**Author:** ![Dragwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dragwyr/32/2855_2.png) [@Dragwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragwyr)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2004, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-celebrity-crush/255032/46 "2004-07-14T16:29:19Z")
As a young kid growing up in the early 70’s I just fell in love with [Tina Louise](http://www.imdb.com/gallery/mptv/1294/Mptv/1294/2615_0005.jpg?path=pgallery&path_key=Louise,%20Tina) as Ginger Grant on Gilligan’s Island. She made bilogical processes happen to me before I even understood why they happened when I saw her on the screen. ---
**Author:** ![FilmGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2004, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-celebrity-crush/255032/47 "2004-07-14T16:42:34Z")
George Brett. My whole room was done up in Royals’ colors, covered in Brett posters. Once I realized I couldn’t be a professional baseball player (as I’m female) I switched to: James Woods Bill Paxton Ed Harris pretty much all at the same time (and still, to some extent). There was some Russell Crowe and Ewan MacGregor (later) in there, too. I also had a thing for Kennedy, the MTV VJ. ---
**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:** [July 14, 2004, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-celebrity-crush/255032/48 "2004-07-14T16:47:14Z")
My parents finally signed us up for cable during my senior year of high school, back when A&E and Nickelodeon shared the same channel. One afternoon, while waiting for the first show on A&E that night, I turned on Nick and noticed [Christine “Moose” McGlade](http://www.ycdtotv.de/wlpg/ychr_m01.htm). ---
**Author:** ![Nutty\_Bunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d07c76/32.png) [@Nutty\_Bunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nutty_Bunny)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2004, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-celebrity-crush/255032/49 "2004-07-14T16:53:47Z")
> [@FisherQueen](#): > > Luke Duke. Not Bo, just Luke. I’m a little bit embarrassed to admit this now, but there it is. My first was John Schneider (Bo Duke). I was 10 or 11 at the time the show started and I started buying 16 Magazine just to see him! Then, when I was 12 years old, it was Ricky Schroder and when I was 13, it was John Taylor of Duran Duran. Two of them have aged _very_ well and one…not so much (Rick, I’m looking at you). In fact, John Taylor is sexier now than he was 20 years ago! Mmmmm… ---
**Author:** ![aegypt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/76d3ee/32.png) [@aegypt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aegypt)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2004, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-celebrity-crush/255032/50 "2004-07-14T16:58:15Z")
Don’t know if it counts, but **Rogue** , of the X-men comic. The hairstyle, the attitude… was I the only teenager to have a crush on her? ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2004, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-celebrity-crush/255032/51 "2004-07-14T16:58:58Z")
Early 80’s just as I was hitting puberty **Erin Gray** of Buck Rogers / Silver Spoons fame just did it for me. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2004, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-celebrity-crush/255032/52 "2004-07-14T17:00:45Z")
What, all these mentions of _Star Wars_, and I’m the only one who fell in love with Princess Leia? Carrie Fisher is OK in her other roles, but Leia specifically… Woo-hoo! She’s got close competition, though, from Mary-Ann Summers, of Gilligan’s Island. And unlike Fisher, [url=“[http://www.dawn-wells.com/](http://www.dawn-wells.com/)”]Dawn Wells is still a babe (at 60-something!). ---
**Author:** ![\_Deep\_F\_ied](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/7cd45c/32.png) [@\_Deep\_F\_ied](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_Deep_F_ied)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2004, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-celebrity-crush/255032/53 "2004-07-14T18:18:14Z")
People…come on! What young boy didn’t have his heart and loins flutter when presented with: Wonder Woman!! [http://www.amazing-amazon.com/wwlynda.htm](http://www.amazing-amazon.com/wwlynda.htm) ::drool:: She could use her golden lasso on me anytime! ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2004, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-celebrity-crush/255032/54 "2004-07-14T18:39:00Z")
[Rita Hayworth](http://claudia79.tripod.com/pin-upgirl.html) No, I’m not that old but when I saw this in a Life magazine, I was toast. ---
**Author:** ![js\_africanus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@js\_africanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/js_africanus)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2004, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-celebrity-crush/255032/55 "2004-07-14T19:26:34Z")
Are we including pre-pubescent, grade-school-boy type crushes? In that case it would probably be Julie from The Love Boat. Post-pubescent, grrowll-rrowwrr type crushes? I honestly can’t remember. ---
**Author:** ![Albert\_Rose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9de053/32.png) [@Albert\_Rose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Albert_Rose)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2004, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-celebrity-crush/255032/56 "2004-07-14T19:57:15Z")
Quite a few… Valerie Bertenelli Chris Evert Evonne Goolagong (tails turn me on) Morticia Adams (?) Nowadays, my favorites include Keira Knightley (10/10), Jennifer Garner and, whenever she turns 18, Hilary Duff. All so _good_! ---
**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, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-celebrity-crush/255032/57 "2004-07-14T20:27:51Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > [Rita Hayworth](http://claudia79.tripod.com/pin-upgirl.html) > > No, I’m not that old but when I saw this in a Life magazine, I was toast. Heh. Rita Hayworth came to see me graduate from college. There are those who would claim the reason for her attendance was because her son was also graduating that day, but secretly I know she came to see ME. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2004, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-celebrity-crush/255032/58 "2004-07-14T20:45:16Z")
> [@TwoTrouts](#): > > [Annette Funicello](http://www.mousestars.com/steve/annette/afmouse1.htm) from the Mousketeers. Me too. I was five or six at the time, and though I didn’t know why, for some reason I thought sleeping with her (literally, of course) was a really, really good idea. ---
**Author:** ![ErinPuff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dbc845/32.png) [@ErinPuff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ErinPuff)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2004, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-celebrity-crush/255032/59 "2004-07-14T20:55:20Z")
Mine was the Green Ranger. I liked his hair. ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2004, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-celebrity-crush/255032/60 "2004-07-14T21:04:42Z")
> [@js\_africanus](#): > > Are we including pre-pubescent, grade-school-boy type crushes? In that case it would probably be Julie from The Love Boat. > > Post-pubescent, grrowll-rrowwrr type crushes? I honestly can’t remember. I’m including everything. What your first ever was. If it was post-pubescent, include that. Now that I remember my first crush, I now remember all the others. Amy-Jo Johnson then Christina Ricci (Casper) Michelle Trachtenberg (When I saw Harriet The Spy in theatres)-Linzi Lohan (The Parent Trap)-Mandy Moore-and oddly enough Racheal Weisz (The Mummy). All of these girls are older than me. I wonder what that means. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-celebrity-crush/255032.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-celebrity-crush/255032.md?page=4)