Crocodile Dundees hunk Paul Hogan -Anyone else used to crush on him? What is the lowdown and gossip on him?

Is like 90 now? Did he and Linda Koswalski have a kid?

He was just an ordinary Australian bloke who talked his way onto a talent show (so he could belittle the judges, who were infamous for belittling the contestants), and without intending to he became an overnight star in Oz--he was handsome, excellent with comedy, and seemed to embody the average Australian working Joe.

He had a hard time of things after his "Crocodile Dundee" stardom made him an international star. It made him a fortune, but he went through an incredibly horrible divorce, and he also got in trouble with the law for tax evasion.

He's in his 80s now.

Very sexy, would love to fuck his ass circa 1985.

Has a new movie coming out soon. Another Crocodile Dundee movie

I used to go into our basement and watch Australian Rules Football just to see the tourism commercials with him in a Speedo.

I wanted to lay on his blond peach fuzz covered chest.

this one too

r1 81 I think

r5 Yum!!

🤮 🤮 🤮 🤮

Fugly man, fugly personality.

Sorry guys, never EVER any gay rumours about Hogan. He had a wife and ?five kids, most of whom were fully grown by the time he ran off with Linda Koslowski. They did have a child, Chance, who is now late-teens/early-20s and a bit "troubled". Paul is living with him in LA, and would desperately like to come home - especially now - but Chance is American and wants to stay there, so he is sticking by him till the kid feels ready to be fully independent. I don't know what role Linda plays in all this. Anyway, he seems to be basically a good guy.

Don't be sorry, R11. No gay wants that fossil.

r10 What do you dislike about his personality?

Not a bad looking guy, but I found him cartoonishly annoying - probably because I never saw him outside of the few movies I saw him in.

r12 You'd be surprised!

I’d eat his ass.

Australian trailer trash :(

Vomitous.

Didn't he and Linda split a few years ago? She had a ton of plastic surgery/filters at some point, too. Made her hard to recognize.

Nope, he doesn't do a thing for me. No tingling in my privates, both from when he became popular years ago or now. To each his own.

r17 What makes you say that?

Hawaii 5 0 was very popular in Australia. Here's Paul's take on it. Lots of yucks

Ugly

Years ago there was a rumor that he was into crossdressing.

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I worked as a set-PA on Dundee when it shot in NYC for two weeks of location exteriors. On lock-ups passersby would ask what was the movie and who was in it. "Something called Crocodile Dundee" I'd shrug, "It's got that shrimp on the barbie guy in it. It may never play in America." Most of the lead crew was Australian; everyone was very easygoing and we all knew that he was shtupping his co-star."

Thats a bit of juicy gossip r26 in your final sentence! Lucky lady!

Linda and Paul have divorced...she was in the news a few years ago when she had her boyfriend arrested for battery.

r28 I thought I read they reconciled as they needed to pull together to help one of their troubled adult children?

They split in 2014, r29.

Crocodile Dundee (along with Mel Gibson) helped kick off an Australian phase on TV at that time . Both the Love Boat and Facts of Life (and more shows that I am forgetting) had very special on location "down under" episodes and you saw an uptick in supporting characters who were Australian.

And Australian musicians were in vogue at the time as well.

And didn't we in Australia hate those "down under" episodes when they screened here! They were soooo bad. Even The Simpsons. Even Modern Family, come to think of it.

But if they offered our actors and crew a foot in the door, it's all good.

He appeared during our 80s Australian invasion. Mel Gibson, Paul Hogan, Yahoo Serious, INXS, the Hoodoo Gurus, Midnight Oil. Fosters oil cans, it was a real Australian love fest/fascination for a bit in the mid-80s.

I was first exposed to him in the mid to late 1970s on PBS, on 'The Paul Hogan Show' (another of those comedy bits which, like 'Monty Python's Flying Circus,' 'Benny Hill,' and 'The Two Ronnies', aired late at night, and I used to sneak into the living room and watch them on low volume after my parents had gone to bed). It was unmemorable, except for a sketch where a buxom young lady is apparently possessed by a demon, and a group of monks led by a priest undertake to exorcise it. It leaves her, the operation is considered a success, and the group exit, all except for one monk who had been standing off to the side. The demon had transferred to him, and now he starts lasciviously chasing the young lady around the room. I've always remembered that one.

I found the Paul Hogan films of the 1980s appalling. A friend of mine, however, was obsessed with them, to the extent that he began going about shirtless with a leather vest, the hat with crocodile teeth, carrying a whip looped around his shoulder, and speaking in what for him passed as an Australian accent, telling people that's where he was from. I put up with that shit for a couple of days, but then put him an ultimatum: cut that shit out and dress normally, or he was not going anywhere with me. I refused to be seen in public with him, carrying on like that.

I was the one with the car, so he quit doing it.

Now I just had a Men at Work flashback.

^^ Re: "a whip looped around his shoulder"

Ah, I've conflated his Paul Hogan obsession with the time he went around with the whip and a fedora, over Indiana Jones. That too was pretty intolerable, but what really brought the Paul Hogan bullshit to a head was his attempt to carry a large knife on the outing (I think we were going to the mall, and probably to the movies). That's when I told him he wasn't going anywhere with me unless he left the whole 'Crocodile Dundee' thing behind.

I know it all sounds improbable, but he was one of my younger brother's friends, and he was fifteen at the time. I was 22, and chaperoning the group, and I wasn't standing for it. It was always some kind of bullshit with him.

I only feel sorry for him that he probably encountered thousands of complete idiots who thought they were being original and funny when they'd say "That's not a knife" to his face.

I fucked a Ukrainian waiter once just because he looked so much like him. Rough trade, but fucking hot as hell. He came hands-free in like 4 minutes.

Pass. Skinny arms.

Yeah, R40 is not a picky bitch at all....

I much prefer the hot swimmer in Muriel's Wedding if we're talking hot Aussies

The “That’s not a knife” scene was supposed to be shot in Central Park but it kept raining; so the location was switched to the cover set - the outdoor arcade / subway entrance at the Municipal Building on Chambers St.

I never found him all that attractive. I'm not really into blonds, so that's probably a big part of it. But this thread made me nostalgic and sent me off on an internet search to see what he's been up to all these many years.

He must have taken care of his money or invested wisely, because he hasn't worked that much over the years. Plus he's been divorced twice. I think his first wife Noelene got a hefty settlement in their nasty divorce. Not sure what Linda Kozlowski got in their divorce. He also had a skirmish with the Australian tax authorities to whom he reportedly paid tens of millions in back taxes. Yet he still lives on a ranch in Santa Barbara. Supposedly he's not a fan of L.A. and finds it fake.

I did read his son seems to have gone through some troubled periods. He supposedly stayed close to his second ex-wife Linda and their divorce was amicable. I guess they were total opposites and after 20-ish years, the marriage just petered out. He was reported to be "devastated" when she got remarried and moved with her new husband to his native Morocco.

Now that he's 81 years old it sounds like he's on his own. I think his son Chance that he had with Linda lives with him. Sounds like he and Linda were helicopter parents to the kid. She just up and took off to Morocco, though, and I read that pissed Paul off because he felt like Chance still needed her around.

Thanks for that information r44 Do we know if he has full US citizenship?

I always thought he was like a live cartoon character.

speaking of "muriel's wedding".. a number of hot sexy men throughout the movie always in the background...

speaking of aussies and aussie men, do they still wear speedos and bikini's on bondi beach now in 2021?...

Not attractive. He always looked like an old man.

I never thought he was hot but his movies were entertaining enough.

r48 Smoking and too much Australian sun may be the culprit there.

He is supposed to represent the traditional Bronzed Aussie laconic larrikin who believed in mateship and self-sacrifice.

But in fact he was skinny, selfish witless, lame and unpleasant.

r51 Unpleasant in what way?

I watched Crocodile Dundee again tonight and, 35 years later, it's still really funny and charming. Paul is not really my type but he's very charismatic in the film. I can see why this was such a hit in 1986.

That wasn’t Sharon Stone in those “crocodile” movies?