"When You Knew" Celebrity Crush

I was 13 or 14 when Batman & Robin came out and I vividly remember I got wood watching Chris O'Donnell as Robin.

Even as a little boy, watching Lost In Space really meant watching Mark Goddard...

Probably Matt Dillon in My Bodyguard.

When Zac Efron was on Baywatch. Damn, he was thicc.

When I first heard Bea Arthur sing "What'll I Do" on the "Golden Girls"...

that deep manly voice...

Chuck Connors in The Rifleman; Lloyd Bridges in Seahunt; Bill Bixby in The Courtship Of Eddie's Father; Ken Berry in F Troop. Sigh..

Parker Stevenson in the Hardy Boys

For all the credit he does get, Tom Welling doesn't get nearly the credit he deserves for being one of the most gorgeous men to hit the tv screen.

Joshua Morrow, watching The Young and the Restless as a kid in the 90s. I didnt know what a white dude with swag was, and they were not yet a thing yet, but damn he had it. I remember feeling so tingly everytime he hit the screen. That is still my type, with full lips

I was in 6th grade and got Goodbye Yellow Brick Road for Christmas. I used to dream that Elton John was my secret boyfriend. Oddly I didn’t think that was any kind of issue.

Don't know why now but Mark Hamill during the original "Star Wars" trilogy. Maybe it was the eyes.

Andy Gibb. I used to read 16 Magazine and Tiger Beat and Teen Beat as a 9 year old. It took me another three years to understand it was sexual (and much longer to really make sense of it) but I remember being fascinated by his furry chest. There were a lot of shirtless guys in those magazines, and I would stare at all those photos, but because he was hairy when nearly everyone else wasn't, he held a special fascination for me. When I started to add rock magazines into the mix a few years later, the same thing happened with Paul Stanley from Kiss.

Gregory Harrison. I couldn’t explain away why I was riveted to the opening credits of Trapper John every week...other than pure lust.

R1 Those cockpieces were so hot.

Christopher Knight. Between his ass and triceps I never knew where to focus.

[R11} agreed. I saw him on an episode of One Day at a Time (pre- Star Wars?). Pure sex!

Austin Peck on Days of Our Lives. They did this stupid Garden of Eden storyline where he was naked except for leaves. Even as a pre-teen I realized it was the dumbest storyline ever. But it was one of the first things I remember jerking off to.

Forgot to post picture.

At 4 years old, (after dancing along with the Solid Gold Dancers) I'd secretly swoon to myself when Tom Selleck appeared on the screen in shirtless & in short shorts on Magnum P.I..

I got to meet Andy Gibb years ago -It was all I could do to not reach over and run my fingers through that chest hair... I was still in high school and horribly closeted, but even then I knew what I really wanted...

Dirk Benedict in [italic]Battlestar Galactica[/italic].

I shared this story in my first-ever Datalounge post (on a thread about childhood crushes), but as it's Christmas I hope you'll forgive me for telling it again.

Growing up, I had a lot of crushes on TV's sci-fi leading men: Mark Goddard in Lost in Space, Gary Conway and Don Matheson from Land of the Giants, David Hedison on Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea... But in those days I was too young to understand what I was feeling. But later came Planet of the Apes and the super-hot James Naughton. Skip over the years to being an adult, and seeing the just-opened revival of Chicago with a friend who was dating one of the hot chorus boys. He got us in backstage after the show where the stars, including Naughton, were "receiving" (Lorenzo Lamas was sitting on a bench with me). I was in thrall, seeing the object of my young crush, up close and personal. Finally, as he was leaving I screwed up my courage and approached him, blurting out "Mr. Naughton I had a terrible crush on you back in the days of Planet of the Apes!" He smiled, said that was sweet, and gave me a big hug as he went on his way. He could easily have been a dick about it, but he was as sweet as could be.

R22 that’s a great story; we should all get one hug from our childhood crushes

Me? Dad died when I was super young so I conflated multiple issues

Sylvester Stallone in "Rocky". I was too young to see the movie, but I clipped all of his pictures out of Newsweek.

Love this thread so much. Please keep going.

Max Gail as Wojo in Barney Miller. Muscles everywhere. As a kid, his ass had me hypnotized, although I didn't know what I wanted to do with it... yet

Robby Benson in Ode to Billy Joe

When I was a wee lad I got the tingles when I saw Tommy Sands in Babes in Toyland.

R22, I love your post. Thanks for sharing.

Anytime that Robert Conrad as James West was tired up on the fabulous Wild Wild West. In the episode "Night of the Firebrand' our hero was tired to pole in black leather chaps and no shirt. I still get a little tingle just thinking about it.

I remember how hot I thought Parker Stevenson was in OUR TIME (1974). The movie starred he and Pamela Sue Martin as a young couple who fall in love. It’s set in 1955 at a girls’ boarding school. I just thought he was so physically beautiful. He continued to impress me a couple of years later in the film LIFEGUARD and THE HARDY BOYS series.

I'm not gay.

^^^ Sure, Jan.

If you don't click the link in R1, the preview version of the pic looks like he's getting blown.

Is it strange that I had a crush on Robert Hegyes in "Welcome Back, Kotter"? I would have been about 10 then and I remember thinking that he was kind of unusual looking. I think it may have been his butt in tight jeans, at least it looks pretty good in this pic (what you can see of it).

Toss up between Michael J. Fox and Tom Wopat. I would’ve been 5 or 6 at the time.

It was either Robert Hayes in "Angie" or Grant Putnam in "General Hospital"

Clint Walker in Night of the Grizzly. Parents took me to see it at drive-in when I was 9.

Seeing Sean Connery shirtless in "Diamonds are Forever."

R35 I lusted after him, too. He had a tight compact body, he filled out his jeans nicely, and he had a sexy hairy chest.

Burt Ward. I though he was the handsomest.

Burt Ward cannot be described as "handsome." Cute, yes. Too boyish to be handsome.

Hulk Hogan, when rasslin' became a pop-culture phenomenon in the '80s.

My God! Burt Ward looks like Jared Kushner!

When Helen Roper made her first entrance on "Three's Company"! I took one look at her and realized, "I want that...... caftan!"

Rob Lowe in Masquerade.

"The way some people love is a crime!"

Buddy Ebsen

Oh, Sènatrice, proper ladies do have different tastes.

Season 1 Jonathan Frakes on Star Trek TNG. I was a pre-teen and recorded every episode. My nether regions would tingle whenever he was profile to the camera and you could see his bulge tenting in his Starfleet onsie.

Sadly, as the series progressed, R49, that bulge moved to a distinctly higher place in that Starfleet uniform.

[quote] It was watching Tom Welling on Smallville that I first discovered what pre was .........

Fuck yeah he was dreamy. Spank bank classic.

R15 HA My two favorite episodes of The Brady Bunch feature Chris. The ep where his volcano "explodes' all over Marsha's snooty girl's group, and the Phil Packer episode, LO L.

I remember a tingle from this.

One illustration inside the book featured buttocks.

R49 & R50 In season 3 of TNG, the male cast were given two piece uniforms with looser pants. Frakes does start to put on weight later in the show's run, but I think he looked good. Outside of season 1, I think Frakes peaks around season 4 and then he starts looking increasingly tired.

Oh, Frakes ended the series as a hot daddy bear, but his expanding girth created a lot of problems for the show -and a lot of personal embarrassment for him.

When this guy took his shirt off, I took my underwear off.

R55, it was the same with Martin Milner on the old "Adam-12" series -- he was slim and trim and hot in the first season, then as the series continued over the years, his waist began to, um, expand a bit. Still, he was an attractive man by the time it was over, though.

Clint Walker and his soft spoken 'Aw shucks Ma'am" contrasting with his physique...... I couldn't quite understand my attraction during early teen years / The Dirty Dozen was not my kind of movie but Clint really got me.

I found Dad's gay porn collection and an old Joe Dallesandro movie.

William Zabka. I thought it was entirely normal to watch everything he was in, again and again and again.

He’s still really hot.

Dad's gay porn collection? There's a story you need to be telling, R59!

R31 Suck his shriveled withered cock. I never did.

When wanted to give Ted most excellent head.

Paul Michael Glaser, Robert Blake, Gabe Kaplan, Robert Hegyes.

Yeah I've got a type.

Oh Shaun Cassidy...you helped this little homo finally awaken to the realization of sexual desire...

Sneaking in to see Blue Lagoon - Christopher Atkins was very lust-inspirational.

Kyle Chandler back on his show Early Edition

Robert Blake as Beretta! I didn't know my real father so I wanted him to be my Daddy and my DADDY!

I didn't "know" at the time for these 2 but I can look back and remember it being the first times I really had some unnamed feelings as a tween.

First was MATT DILLION in 1979s "Little Darlings" starring Tatum O'Neal and Kristy McNichol who were it-girls for teens then. While they were cute, it was whenever Matt came on screen that my little heart fluttered.

I won't post a pic of Matt from then here because he was 16 in that movie ya creeps. But boy was he pretty. Pics are easy to find.

The 2nd was the next year with "Blue Lagoon" with Brook Shields and CHRISTOPHER ADKINS. All my friends went on about Brooke but shirtless loinclothed Chris is what got me. I'll post him because he was 18.

[quote]I won't post a pic of Matt from then here because he was 16 in that movie ya creeps. But boy was he pretty. Pics are easy to find.

Umm, what could be wrong about posting a non-pornographic image of him from that movie and admitting that you found him attractive when you yourself were a tween? Are you joking, lamely?

And you spelled Christopher Atkins' name wrong, which is surprising, seeing as how you were/are so enamored of him.

Joe Lando from Dr. Quinn. Now, I wouldn't say he's "when I knew," but he for sure was really my first big clue. We used to go over to my grandma's for Sunday dinner and while my brother and cousins would go off an play, I'd stay and watch Dr. Quinn with my mom and grandma. I was born in 86 so I was probably only 7 or 8 at the time but I used to get "butterflies in my stomach" when Sully was on screen.

Fred Dryer with his big fat meaty crotch bulge!

This is embarrassing but I used to bust a nut to Robert Urich in Spenser for Hire cause he filled out those jeans very well. Funny thing is, looking at pictures of him now, I'm not remotely attracted to him lol.

I always say that Bubba Higgins turned me gay.

I was half joking about a Matt Dillon pic R70. I don't know how to post 2 separate pics on one post so I went with the 18 year old. But also, no, I'm not totally comfortable posting a pic of a 16 year old boy in this specific thread no matter the context. That's a "me" issue and I'm fine with it.

Your second comment; I don't know how thinking a random guy is attractive translates into to knowing/remembering how to exactly spell his name 40 years later. That's a "you" issue.

R75, this thread is all about what celebrities we had crushes on when we were very young, which I would not describe as prurient subject matter. So I'm glad you understand that your avoidance of posting a pic of a 16-year-old actor as he appeared in his first movie is your own issue, especially since I'm fairly certain that having lots of young audience members develop crushes on Matt Dillon et al. is one of the things the producers and directors were going for when they cast them in films.

As to your other point, I guess it's not that surprising that you wouldn't remember how to spell Christopher Atkins' name all these years later, especially since his acting career pretty much fizzled out long ago. So I apologize for that.

R70 & R75, you seem really invested in seeing a pic of a teen boy here. If you didn't notice, all the other pics in this thread are gown men. I thought it seemed a bit off to bring in a young looking teen boy to the mix. But to reiterate, I only know how to post one pic in my post, so I picked the adult and made a silly quip about it.

But since you're so fixated on seeing pics of teen boys, I suggest you-do-you and go ahead and look for teen boy actors of 1980 on your own - it's pretty easy... unless your probation officer checks your internet usage that is.

Way to dismantle the thread, guy.

Oops, I meant R70 and R76 for my R77 comment.

I'm sure R70 / R76 will be really upset I made a simple mistake in my number references as he is at my actor misspelling. I apologize to him for causing such distressful mental gymnastics in his very important life.

Here, you lunatics.

Matt Dillon when I had a celebrity crush and "knew" - and I was and am younger than he is.

Now shove the willful conflation between things such as this and actual inappropriate ephebophilia. But allow me to add, to twist a nipple of the hateful Karens, that even as a child I thought he was approaching the end of his appeal at the time.

I remember wanting desperately to kiss Leonardo DiCaprio after seeing him in "Titanic" when I was around 8 years old. I didn't realize this meant I was probably gay or what that even was. As a young adolescent, though, probably around 13–14, I remember getting really turned on by Colby Donaldson, one of the contestants on "Survivor". My family had a subscription to Entertainment Weekly for some reason, but nobody ever read any of the magazines, so I ended up with them. I remember getting this edition with him on the cover (far right), and jacking off to it in my bedroom numerous times. I was mesmerized by him. Sometime during those masturbation sessions, it became very clear in my mind that I was attracted to men, and men only. Incidentally, the burly Richard Donaldson (on the left) was openly gay at that time.

[quote]Now shove the willful conflation between things such as this and actual inappropriate ephebophilia.

If only they would.

[quote]But since you're so fixated on seeing pics of teen boys, I suggest you-do-you and go ahead and look for teen boy actors of 1980 on your own - it's pretty easy... unless your probation officer checks your internet usage that is.

Sounds like you're very familiar with such surveillance. Not surprising, since something in your makeup made you think that posting a non-pornographic frame shot or publicity photo of a 16-year-old actor from one of his films would somehow be inappropriate. Of course, that thought wouldn't even have occurred to you if....that thought hadn't occurred to you. If you know what I mean. And I didn't derail the thread, bucko. You set it on a smarmy detour with your comment "I won't post a pic of Matt from then here because he was 16 in that movie ya creeps," even if you were "joking."

Denny Terrio

Wow r31. I loved this movie so much when I was a kid. I've been trying to get a copy of it on disc, but can't seem to find it. Thanks for mentioning it.

R83, Pamela and Parker did this interview about the film. Unfortunately, the audio isn’t great.

Oh Jeezy Crusty, R81, you're the epitome of a reactionary frau.

How you survive around here with such an easily offended and humorless attitude is boggling. Get lost. I'm done with you.

[quote]Denny Terrio

So Diane and Janet--"Motion"--did nothing for you?

No and they did nothing for the show.