What was your strangest childhood celebrity crush?

[progmom]

I had a huge crush on Randolph Mantooth from Emergency.

[bicentennial_baby]

1. Davey Jones from The Monkees

Only about 20 years too late :P

[progmom]

4. I met him in a bar about 10 years ago.

He is really really really really short. :D

[bicentennial_baby]

6. Hahahaha...not my type then

I like my boys tall! plus, he's about a million years older than me, and not quite so cute as he used to be. :)

[LizMoonstar]

80. ooh give him to me then!

I like short men (more my size, y'see), and I think he's cuter now as an old dude than even then. then again, I am too young to have seen the Monkees in their original run.

[ernstbass]

20. Me too!!!!

[arwalden]

44. Me Too

[Throckmorton]

111. Davy from Davy and Goliath

I wanted to have his baby so bad.

[rbnyc]

115. OK, THAT'S Weird! (nt)

[WCGreen]

2. Ann Margaret.....

Oh baby......

[redqueen]

125. How is that weird?

?

[WCGreen]

155. I was only about twelve....

And accidently was taken to see Carnal Knwoledge....

It was the drunken broken down mentaly ill Ann Margaret that I feel in lust with....

Not the Wholesomely seductive Bye Bye Birdie Ann Margaret

[Spirochete]

154. I STILL

have a crush on Ann Margaret. :)

I remember lusting after Marlo Thomas when I was a kid, too. I can't think of any weird crushes I had, tho.

[wildhorses]

3. Hoss Cartwright

from Bonanza....you know the Ponderosa

[chaska]

159. Damn, he was a sweet man. I miss the big lug.

[Misunderestimator]

5. Suzanne Pleshette

:)

[WCGreen]

8. I can see why you play for the other team now.....

Just kidding........

[Misunderestimator]

12. Nice.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

53. Funny..a lot of people say my voice sounds like hers

[Misunderestimator]

72. You know... it kinda does, now that I think about it.

:bounce:

[KamaAina]

142. Don't do this to me.

Please. Have a heart. Why must you tease the poor deprived (depraved?) straight boy this way? It's just cruel, I tell you.

I'm going to go off in a corner and sulk now. :cry:

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

93. Me too.

I don't consider that one odd. She was hot.

[KamaAina]

140. Hey! Me too!

then again I am a male, so the only thing strange about it was that an eight-year-old had an Emily Hartley jones...

[billyskank]

7. I used to think the Queen was pretty hot

And so she was when she was younger. What I didn't realise was that they hadn't updated the picture on the banknotes in decades. :silly:

[tjwmason]

35. I've seen one of her wedding photos

Both her and Prince Philip were utterly drop-dead gorgeous, as was the young Princess Margaret, and the young Queen Mother.

[billyskank]

50. Before Elizabeth became queen, she used to smile a lot

She was extremely beautiful. Then when she became queen, she immediately stopped smiling. Big shame. :(

[Shell Beau]

9. Ralph Machio from Karate Kid and

Kirk Cameron from Growing Pains.

On edit, I just remembered a crush that I had and my dad had to set me straight. I am almost too embarrassed to mention it.....








Michael Jackson. It was when "Bad" came out and he was still halfway normal then. And I was only 6 or so. Ugghhhh!!

[fudge stripe cookays]

64. Good LORD you're young.

I was 23, working at a record store when that came out, and partying WAY too much.

FSC, feels entirely too old right now.

[Shell Beau]

65. Well, maybe I was a little older. It's hard to for me to

remember exactly how old I was. I am 27 now so, :shrug: What year did it come out?

[progmom]

67. 1987

you were 9. :hi:

[Shell Beau]

71. Yikes! Almost old enough to know better!

Well he's my strange one! :hi:

[progmom]

74. i can one-up you.

i had a HUGE crush on his younger brother Randy. :o

he's the middle brother in this pic:

[Shell Beau]

75. What were we thinking?

At least Randy isn't an accused pedophile or is he? They are a strange family! :crazy:

[progmom]

76. no - he beat his wife and was on the lam from the law last i heard.

:cry:

[Shell Beau]

77. Well, I sure am glad our taste in men has gotten

better. Whew! ;)

[fudge stripe cookays]

84. 1988.

I'm 39.

old old FSC

[Shell Beau]

86. That's not old!!!!

[fudge stripe cookays]

88. Sure seems like it these days.

My warranty expired in March. I'd like to trade this chassis in for a new model, please.

FSC

[Shell Beau]

90. Nah, that model is just now getting broken in!

[fudge stripe cookays]

94. Hmmm...

Only one ovary and MS to boot. I don't know if I like the process.

FSC

[Left Is Write]

98. Hey! I'm 39 too.

Just remember - WE were in high school when "Thriller" came out! ;)

[fudge stripe cookays]

135. Gah!

Don't remind me! I have a defaced picture of Michael Jackson in my senior memory book. He he.

FSC

[Arugula Latte]

146. Yep. Another 39-year-old here. Class of 1984. We had big hair then.

[Misunderestimator]

116. Why did your dad have to set you straight about Michael Jackson?

And not about those other two really scary ones?

[progmom]

128. ha ha - you know - that's a good question!

[StopTheMorans]

10. I'm waiting for someone to say "Alf"

:hide:

[progmom]

14. it's ok, stm

we all know about your Alf obsession. :hug:

[StopTheMorans]

15. not me, silly, i was more into ET

am i the only one :shrug:

[terrya]

11. Bobby Sherman

It's truly bizarre thinking about that today. :-)

[progmom]

13. hahahahaha

you weren't alone, though. :) must admit that i never saw the appeal.

[terrya]

21. It was strange...but he was SO dreamy.....

"sigh" :-)

[WCGreen]

17. Remember here comes the Brides...

And he was the stuttering yonger brother

[terrya]

22. Yes, I do...David Soul was also in "Brides", as I recall.

I do remember Bobby Sherman from that show. :-)

[WCGreen]

33. David Soul was the Wistfull middle Brother......

And there you have it.....

[sundog]

16. olivia newton-john

[billyskank]

18. The neutron bomb made me feel a bit funny also

watching Grease while growing up.

[progmom]

19. I can see why you play for the other team now.....

actually, i have no idea what that means... :shrug:

[billyskank]

24. Does it have anything to do with

voting Republican? :shrug:

[jobycom]

147. Damn, me too! But why is that strange?

[GOPisEvil]

23. Kristy MacNichol.

:freak:

[progmom]

26. she was cute in an androgynous, heading for certain disaster kind of way..

[GOPisEvil]

29. I don't know what the hell I was thinking.

:shrug:

I also had the serious hots for Valerie Bertinelli at about the same time, so go figure.

[progmom]

30. you misunderstood - i don't think the kristy crush is odd at all

:hi:

now valerie bertinelli...? :P

[GOPisEvil]

31. I was PISSED at Eddie Van Halen for a couple of days.

I wasn't alone either.

[MN ChimpH8R]

48. No you weren't

I was crazy about Valerie in my late teens and early twenties!

[kick-ass-bob]

60. HAHAHA! Alone you were not.

:P

[Misunderestimator]

121. Doh... wrong spot

I'll try that again.

[Misunderestimator]

122. Almost every lesbian I know (of a certain age) did too.

:rofl:

(Not me though... I was into more mature women.)

[GOPisEvil]

127. Does this mean I'm a lesbian trapped in a man's body?

:rofl:

I slay me.

[MN ChimpH8R]

25. Dunno if it's strange or not

but Nancy Sinatra and Diana Rigg (as Emma Peel).

[progmom]

27. it's possible that everyone- straight, gay, man, woman- had a crush on

emma peel

[tjwmason]

34. HAD, HAD, HAD ???????

Still do have.

[progmom]

36. yes yes

progdad and i both have a crush on her.

[tjwmason]

39. That's good to hear

I was getting worried for a moment there.

[wackadoo wabbit]

118. I don't think it was so much that I had a crush on her

as that I wanted to BE her.

[TK421]

28. Jamie Lee Curtis-and to this day, she still has an awesome set of legs

[LynneSin]

32. Engelbert Humperdinck and Tony Orlando

I had something about Mediterranean guys with cheesy mustaches - go figure

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

37. Pete Duel, who tragically took his own life

Remember the series "Alias Smith and Jones"? He was on that.

[Felix Mala]

97. They said it was an accident!!!

[LostinVA]

38. Pamela Sue Martin -- Nancy Drew

[underpants]

40. Squeaky Fromme

Seriously. I thought she was cute.

BEAT THAT!

[TK421]

41. Squeaky was kind of cute, but Susan Atkins was cuter....

in a scary sort of way

[1gobluedem]

42. Jack Wild from HR Puf-n-stuff

He also played the Artful Dodger in the movie Oliver. I thought he was really cool....

[progmom]

43. I do believe JimmyJazz shares that crush with you

:hi:

[1gobluedem]

46. Wow...

I never heard of anyone else who even knew who Jack Wild was!

[WCGreen]

89. I wanted to be Jack Wild.....

He was so cool in Oliver....

That scene, who will Buy this wonderful morning.....

Is one of the best scenes ever filmed in a musical.....

[WI_DEM]

156. I was Jack Wild

in that I played the Dodger in a HS production of "Oliver!"

[arwalden]

45. Michael Landon... Little Joe Cartwright

[jackelope72]

47. All of the Duke Boys...Bo, Luke, Coy, and Vance

I would watch the show every week just waiting to see if and when they would take their shirts off.

I also remember having to turn on the t.v. early every Sunday morning to catch re-runs of "Grizzly Adams". Dan Haggerty had it going on!!

[Blue Diadem]

49. Lil' Joe, Michael Landon was my first crush when I was 10,

then Davey Jones, then John Lennon.

[XemaSab]

51. louis reukeyser

n/t

[jane_pippin]

52. Rick Moranis

And no, I have absolutely no idea why. I probably thought he was funny.

[redqueen]

133. I still think he's cute...

:)

[XNASA]

54. A young, pre-celebrity Carrie Fisher.

She appeared on a TV show with her mom, Debbie Reynolds, and I was smitten.

We were probably both about 10 or 11 at the time.

[progmom]

55. not so strange

i have been in love with her caustic humor for years!!

[SarahB]

56. Fred Grandy

Before I knew he was a Republican of course.

[dolo amber]

57. I think Elton John would probably qualify

:silly:

[SmokingJacket]

58. Alfred Hitchcock. I'm not joking.

I loved his accent when he presented that mystery show. I wanted to kiss his cute bald head.

But I ALSO had quite a thing for Johnny Gage on Emergency -- is that Randolph Mantooth? Man, what a honey!!:loveya:

[progmom]

61. Yep - that was Randolph Mantooth

:D

[redqueen]

134. Okay, now that I see him...

how is that weird? He's cute!

[cfield]

59. Michael Chichlas (sp?)

from The Commish (who is my dad's age-ICK)

and Aladdin, from the Disney movie. My husband makes fun of me everytime I mention that I thought he was handsome but come on, cartoons can be good looking!

I also used to think Fred Flinstone was great!

[jackelope72]

63. You think your childhood crush on Aladdin was weird...

I had a friend who, at age TWENTY, developed a crush on the hero (don't remember his name, John Cusack did the voice) from the cartoon "Anastasia". I remember watching the movie with him, and he kept saying, "Look at him! He is SOOOO hot! Don't you think he's do-able?" And I'd be like, "He's a CARTOON, man! You can't 'do' a cartoon!"

[cfield]

83. ahh, well then I don't feel bad admitting

that I had a crush on the Little Mermaid too. Ariel was so sexy and I absolutely LOVED her voice! Those two movies are the two I regret selling at a garage sale the most! (Maybe she was the initial cause of my interest in other women??)

[alarcojon]

62. I guess Mary Ann from Gilligan's Island doesn't count as strange

but there you have it. Who was with me?

[Zomby Woof]

66. Some woman in a ChapStick commercial

I have no idea what her name was, but she was fascinating to me.

Elizabeth Montgomery was my 'normal' childhood crush, lol.

[progmom]

68. Suzy Chapstick?

[Zomby Woof]

69. Actually, no!

This pre-dated even her! :D

I forgot about Suzy! LOL! She isn't bad, but she's no Samantha Stevens. :P

[trackfan]

70. Lara Parker - Angelique on Dark Shadows

[Kathleen04]

73. Randolph Mantooth is cute..

Not even my generation, but Randolph Mantooth is worth crushing on. I also liked the guys from Adam-12, Bill Bixby in My Favorite Martian.. I watched all these on reruns and they count as strange, because I grew up in the 90s/00s. Huge crush on all the Beatles too. I really missed my time I think. :)

[livetohike]

78. Bret Maverick (James Garner)

and I still love him :-).

[livetohike]

79. darn n/t

[LizMoonstar]

81. I agree and raise you Mel pre-crazy Gibson as Maverick!

God Mel, why can't you go back to being normal?

[Hell Hath No Fury]

82. Bugs Bunny...

that fact that he was:

a) a cartoon

and

b) a rabbit

just didn't seem to enter into my mind. :D

[distantearlywarning]

85. David Bowie as the Goblin King in Labyrinth.

Heck, I still have a crush on the Goblin King. Sarah was an idiot...

[hyphenate]

87. I don't think any of my crushes

could be considered "strange," but perhaps a bit inappropriate is another matter. By that, I mean I had crushes on several older actors who would have been old enough to be my grandfather. One of those was Ray Walston and the other was Richard Basehart. Both were born in 1914. I also had a crush on Paul Newman, but again, he was much older.

My lifelong "crush" since I was 15 was/has been Rod Taylor. I had the luck to be introduced to him in 1995, and found him just one of the nicest people in the world. Again, he's old enough to be my father, but that's okay!

[Trigger Hippie]

91. Shaggy from Scooby Doo.

He's not even a real boy, fer Christ's sakes!!!!

But I did meet Casey Kasem once (the original voice of Shaggy) and told him that Shaggy was my first ever crush. He looked at me like I was nuts. :silly:

[LaraMN]

104. I liked Fred,

and I wanted to BE Daphne. Still kinda do, sometimes.

[Trigger Hippie]

106. I am and always will be Velma.

I even dressed up like her on Halloween. A lotta people thought I was Mary Katherine Gallagher from SNL. :shrug:

[LaraMN]

109. ah ha haaa!

My three year old does the "Superstar!" thing. She even sticks her hands in her armpits. Stupid kid tricks.

[Debbi801]

92. Not strange then. Very strange now. Willie Aames.....

Who would have thunk he'd grow up to be Bible Man. :rofl:

I had a crush on Randolph Mantooth, too. Loved Emergency. I was so excited when he got a roll on one of the soaps I watched.

[Left Is Write]

95. Randolph Mantooth is a strange crush? LOTS of people loved him!

I liked Brett Hudson from the Hudson Brothers. I also had a crush on Mike Nesmith, rather than the more-popular Davy Jones.

[Greyhound]

96. Starngest? I'd say it was Betty Boop (My parents were into old films) n/t

[Cathyclysmic]

99. Hawk from Buck Rogers......

You said strange, right?

[nytemare]

141. LOL, I remember that show!

That was one of my favorites.

[Felix Mala]

100. Charlton Heston as Ben Hur

Especially when he's in the slave chain gang and later when he's on the raft after his ship sinks...

[kwassa]

101. Sophia Loren

the first object of desire

[huskerlaw]

102. Kirk Cameron

:yoiks:
a fact that my fundie mother LOVES to remind me of now.

[Taverner]

103. Veruca Salt in Willy Wonka

when I was about 7....

[China_cat]

151. Did you also watch her as Amy on Dark Shadows?

[madrchsod]

105. i dreamed of Jeni

[Rising Phoenix]

107. luke skywaker

[kick-ass-bob]

108. sundog.

:loveya:

:crazy:

[BlueIris]

110. Harold Ramis.

It was an Egon Spangler thing.

[Trigger Hippie]

112. I also thought Egon was hot.

Mmmm, neeerrrrdddsssss. Hee hee.

[redqueen]

137. Yes! Egon!

I loves nerds. :D

[BlueIris]

153. Oh, thank God. I'm no longer alone.

Hee.

[Pendrench]

113. Caroline Ellis - (the actress who played Joy on the Bugaloos) n/t

[rbnyc]

114. Prince Planet

It's kind of strange to have a crush on a cartoon character.

[pookieblue]

117. Goldar

From the afternoon show, The Space Giants..





Hey you did ask for my strangest.....

[hunter]

119. Randolph Mantooth is not "strangest."

My strangest crush was probably this:



(The PDP-8 computer; not the guy with the buzz cut and cool glasses...)



My normal childhood crush was Uhura of Star Trek:

[bertha katzenengel]

120. Daryl Dragon - "The Captain" of The Captain & Tennille --

yet I knew I was gay. :shrug:

Oh -- yes, I also had a massive, earth-shattering crush on Toni. But I didn't admit that one to myself. ;)

[mvd]

123. None of the real people were strange, but..

I found myself with a crush on Velma from Scooby Doo.

[redqueen]

124. Boris Becker or Martina Navratilova

:shrug:


Hahahahah oooh! Or Bowser from Sha Na Na.

I can't believe I admitted that... :blush:

[youthere]

126. Gilligan.

[Beware the Beast Man]

129. Karen Valentine of "Room 222"

[u4ic]

130. Barney Rubble

I LOVED Randolph Mantooth as a kid, but I'd say he was one of my more 'normal' crushes.

[flygal]

131. Billy Mummy from Lost in Space

I still remember going to Universal Studios when I was 8 thinking I would get to meet him - and heart broken when I didn't.

[texas1928]

132. Erin Gray

From Buck Rogers in the 25th century.
Man she was smoking hot and her eyes, oh her eyes.

[graywarrior]

136. Bugs Bunny & Mr. Spock

[anarch]

138. Cheryl Tiegs

Pretty much the only childhood celebrity crush I can remember...I don't know, is that strange?

[China_cat]

139. Wasn't mine, but it was weird

My sister had a crush on Haystack Calhoun, the wrestler.

[AnarchoFreeThinker]

143. Holly, from "Land of the Lost"

[Rising Phoenix]

144. aqua man and wonder woman

I know I said ol' skywalker, but if we are talking strangest, it must be my animated friends...

[Arugula Latte]

145. Bob from Sesame Street circa 1970. eom

[jobycom]

148. Dolly Parton

I think I learned what love was listening to her sing "I will always love you."

I also had crushes on Pamela Sue Martin (Nancy Drew) and Kim Richards (Tia from Escape to Witch Mountain, and also Paris Hilton's aunt).

[Ratty]

149. The Lawrence Welk Show (no, not Lawrence)

All of these names are great, they really take me back--but most are hardly out of the ordinary. Now THIS was my VERY FIRST crush ever. I think I was maybe six years old. My parents just thought I really loved music. Presenting ...


Joe Feeney, Irish Tenor from The Lawrence Welk Show!



Very strange, especially considering Bobby of Bobby and Cissy fame was so much hotter.

[Puglover]

150. Oh Good Lord I don't even believe I'm going to post this

Troy Donahue

:eyes:

[Clintmax]

152. Erik Estrada in "CHiPs"

DAMN that man was fine!

[tjwmason]

160. It's still on British T.V. occasionally.

There's a couple of channels on Sky which rerun stuff like CHiPs and the A-Team - trust me, he still is fine (though in real life he might have aged a tad).

[Clintmax]

162. HELLO TJ!!

:hi:

[Meatwad]

157. She was a nice cut of sirloin.

Man...how I've always wanted to eat her...I mean meat her...I mean meet...

[swag]

158. Evel Knievel.

[chaska]

161. Angelique - Dark Shadows.

[faithfulcitizen]

163. Scott Biao (sp?) aka Charles in Charge