Eldergays, please tell me more about Desi Arnaz Junior. I've been watching Here's Lucy, which is terrible, but Desi as Craig Carter is fueling my j.o. fantasies. He was a dreamboat with a hairy chest, even as a teenager. I know he dated Liza and Patty Duke, but why didn't he pose for Playgirl when all the hot TV stars were doing it? What do you know about the sex god?
Lucy Ball's son Desi Arnaz Jr.
by Anonymous | reply 90 | November 28, 2022 2:05 PM |
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by Anonymous | reply 1 | July 13, 2022 6:30 AM |
He was a total stud. He aimed for a career in movies but it didn't pan out. I think he got into drugs and booze, probably because of Liza.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | July 13, 2022 6:33 AM |
He was short and hairy OP He was cute, but he was not a sex God. And his last notable credit was Robert Altman's a wedding 1978. He was mostly relegated to appearances in made4tv movies and on TV shows i.e. Police Story, Medical Story, Medical Center, The. Love Boat, Fantasy Island. . . he was basically always a second stringer even on his mom's TV show. And the band he formed as a teen Dino, Desi and Billy was a short-lived basically pop group
by Anonymous | reply 3 | July 13, 2022 6:39 AM |
He hit the wall hard. I used to see him out and about when he lived in LA- the guy looked terminally depressed. And he hated when people asked him about ILL.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | July 13, 2022 6:43 AM |
Mr and Mrs Bo Jo Jones starring Desi Jr.
It was one of the first made for TV movies ever done. Back in 1971.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | July 13, 2022 6:51 AM |
Anyone else wonder what's up with the guy who always says "Lucy Ball," rather than the more common "Lucille Ball," when her full name is used? Probably calls her "Lucille" when he just uses her first name, too.
by Anonymous | reply 6 | July 13, 2022 6:54 AM |
Red Sky in the Morning (1971) is worth seeing.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | July 13, 2022 7:10 AM |
Marcia Brady had a big crush on him in one episode of “The Brady Bunch.”
by Anonymous | reply 8 | July 13, 2022 8:32 AM |
He was no Ralph Hart.
by Anonymous | reply 10 | July 13, 2022 8:56 AM |
R11 Before AND after Peter Sellers, right?
by Anonymous | reply 12 | July 13, 2022 9:06 AM |
He played a Native American in the western "Billy Two Hats" with Gregory Peck.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | July 13, 2022 9:13 AM |
Looks great for his age (and he isn't making a silly face) but Lucie aged well too.
by Anonymous | reply 14 | July 13, 2022 9:15 AM |
@r13, He was so talented. Just imagine how far he could have gone if his mother was the most powerful woman in Hollywood 🙄
by Anonymous | reply 15 | July 13, 2022 9:16 AM |
Lucie still looks great. She has gray/white hair now (not loving it) and is still a good looking woman.
It also helps that she is talented and very charming.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | July 13, 2022 1:00 PM |
His sister Lucie did quite well in show business and continued to pursue projects but it was said that handsome Desi Jr. didn't have much ambition or drive and kind of fell by the wayside. He made use of his good looks for awhile but that was about it.
by Anonymous | reply 17 | July 13, 2022 2:01 PM |
By all accounts he was his father's son.
by Anonymous | reply 19 | July 13, 2022 2:07 PM |
He auditioned for the Bruce Willis role on Moonlighting.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | July 13, 2022 2:12 PM |
He was cute but hardly a dreamboat. He was pudgy- face and body. Is that hot?
by Anonymous | reply 21 | July 13, 2022 2:20 PM |
Back in the day, he was one of a gaggle of cute, sexually non-threatening guys that pre-teen girls drooled over: Davy Jones, Sean Cassidy, Leif Garrett, Andy Gibb,
by Anonymous | reply 22 | July 13, 2022 2:30 PM |
"but why didn't he pose for Playgirl when all the hot TV stars were doing it?"
Because his mother, one of Hollywood's most notorious ball busters, wouldn't stand for it.
by Anonymous | reply 23 | July 13, 2022 2:36 PM |
@r21, "He was pudgy- face and body. Is that hot? "
He was straight, rich and well-connected, a rarity in Hollywood. So, yes he was hot
by Anonymous | reply 24 | July 13, 2022 4:23 PM |
He's dreamy.
by Anonymous | reply 25 | July 13, 2022 4:23 PM |
I read a story that he knocked some girl up (probably many girls up) when he was a teen and Lucy had the whole thing covered up.
[quote]Arnaz has a daughter, Julia Arnaz, from a relationship with model Susan Callahan-Howe in 1968 when they were both 15 years old; Julia's relationship to Desi Jr. was proven by a paternity test in 1991.[12]
by Anonymous | reply 26 | July 13, 2022 4:49 PM |
Does Sean Astin count him as one of his several fathers?
by Anonymous | reply 27 | July 13, 2022 5:13 PM |
I idolized Desi Jr. when I was young. He's a couple of years older than me, but I thought he had the perfect life. I remember seeing a picture of one of his weekly paychecks when he was on "Here's Lucy"' $17,000. I just about died
by Anonymous | reply 28 | July 13, 2022 5:17 PM |
[quote]but why didn't he pose for Playgirl when all the hot TV stars were doing it?" Because his mother, one of Hollywood's most notorious ball busters, wouldn't stand for it.
She wouldn't allow him to screen Jame Bond movies in the home screening room because she thought they were smutty and not for kids.
by Anonymous | reply 29 | July 13, 2022 5:35 PM |
Hish penish wash enormusch!
by Anonymous | reply 30 | July 13, 2022 6:41 PM |
Uncircumcised
by Anonymous | reply 31 | July 13, 2022 7:29 PM |
^ Nah, he was born in the 50s, he's for sure cut
by Anonymous | reply 32 | July 13, 2022 7:54 PM |
I know Desi Jr was involved with Patty Duke but in R11 he LOOKS like her.
by Anonymous | reply 34 | July 13, 2022 8:04 PM |
Who believes some online list?
by Anonymous | reply 35 | July 13, 2022 8:07 PM |
A stud with Liza Minnelli! are you kidding?
by Anonymous | reply 36 | July 13, 2022 8:28 PM |
He was semi-cute for about a minute. Then, instant mediocrity.
by Anonymous | reply 37 | July 13, 2022 8:32 PM |
Why didn't Desi, Jr., pose nude for Playgirl? He wanted to but Gary persuaded him not to.
by Anonymous | reply 38 | July 13, 2022 8:45 PM |
Mark Gero was straight. He used to be hot too. Maybe she got all the dick she wanted.
by Anonymous | reply 39 | July 13, 2022 8:47 PM |
I hope this puts a nail in the coffin of the "Everyone in Hollywood is Famous Because of Nepotism" Troll. You might get a gig or two, but even having an iconic Mom does not mean having a successful career. You have to have talent on your own.
by Anonymous | reply 40 | July 13, 2022 8:52 PM |
He always looked like a nebbish accountant. And Lucie, she's no beauty either. A shame when their parents were both so attractive.
Mind you, Lucille Ball had geriatric pregnancies way back then. And after all her shoeing around from the age of 14 its a wonder she wasn't barren from an std or a botched abortion.
And how narcissistic do you have to be to name both you children after yourselves.
by Anonymous | reply 41 | July 13, 2022 8:55 PM |
It is narcissistic but it was also a convention of the time.
by Anonymous | reply 42 | July 13, 2022 8:59 PM |
It used to be pretty common back then.
by Anonymous | reply 43 | July 13, 2022 8:59 PM |
Tell me about it.
by Anonymous | reply 44 | July 13, 2022 9:01 PM |
And by "shoeing" I meant "whoring". My phone is apparently editing my more colorful bon mots.
by Anonymous | reply 45 | July 13, 2022 9:04 PM |
[quote]think again
You think because a guy's name in on that list he is? Robert Culp is on that list and he did a full frontal in a movie called "A Name For Evil" and is cut.
by Anonymous | reply 46 | July 13, 2022 9:55 PM |
R7 Red Sky at Morning was good. I enjoyed it.
by Anonymous | reply 47 | July 13, 2022 10:26 PM |
Patty Duke claimed that Desi was her son Sean’s father. She continued to claim that even after DNA proved that Michael Tell was Sean’s bio dad.
Desi had a daughter at age 15. Her name is Julia. Julia's relationship to Desi Jr. was proven by a paternity test in 1991. Desi’s granddaughter, Desiree, died of breast cancer at age 31 in 2020.
by Anonymous | reply 48 | July 13, 2022 10:35 PM |
Dino, Billy and Desi singing “I’m a Fool” on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1965.
Desi Jr. is the only living member of the trio. Dean Paul was killed piloting a plane in 1987. He was only 35. Billy died last November at 70 from lung cancer.
by Anonymous | reply 49 | July 13, 2022 10:45 PM |
They were really popular for a hot minute
by Anonymous | reply 50 | July 13, 2022 10:48 PM |
R7 what about Billy Two Hats?
by Anonymous | reply 51 | July 13, 2022 10:53 PM |
Dino Martin was yummy. Desi Jr looked like the Gerber Baby. R49
by Anonymous | reply 52 | July 13, 2022 11:04 PM |
One of the trio’s last performances. I don’t know the year, probably 1969 or 1970.
by Anonymous | reply 53 | July 13, 2022 11:04 PM |
@r53, Desi Jr. was pretty hot for a then 16 year old
by Anonymous | reply 55 | July 13, 2022 11:21 PM |
[quote] ^ Nah, he was born in the 50s, he's for sure cut
No, he's not. Desi Sr. refused to allow it. He was from Cuba and of a generation and upbringing that considered circumcision only one notch above castration. Senior thought having Junior's foreskin removed would make him less of a man.
by Anonymous | reply 56 | July 14, 2022 12:33 AM |
He had a fully hairy chest as a teen. I think he was incredibly sexy on the Here's Lucy. (Ball) sitcom.
by Anonymous | reply 57 | July 14, 2022 12:51 AM |
The way the show had no qualms about sexualizing underage Desi was pretty wild. He wears a short as heyl toga in The Generation Gap episode, and in the one with Liberace, his shirt was unbuttoned nearly down to his navel.
by Anonymous | reply 58 | July 14, 2022 1:00 AM |
Sex God? Really? This guy looks like Grimace from the old McDonald's commercials.
by Anonymous | reply 59 | July 14, 2022 1:07 AM |
Desi talks about Liberace in one of the Lucy books. Lee was licking his chops over Desi Jr
by Anonymous | reply 60 | July 14, 2022 1:46 AM |
He had a thick pelt of chest hair in that LIberace episode. I wonder how much fur was in his swimsuit area.
by Anonymous | reply 62 | July 14, 2022 4:01 AM |
He wears a bunch of cute outfits in the Ann- Margret episode. It was a fun time for men's fashion.
by Anonymous | reply 63 | July 14, 2022 5:32 AM |
R63, a lacy see-through blouse! He is smoking sexy.
by Anonymous | reply 64 | July 14, 2022 5:34 AM |
I can't find shirtless pics of Desi Jr. Can anyone post them? He's much furrier than his dad was.
by Anonymous | reply 65 | July 15, 2022 2:11 AM |
Just Google Desi Jr shirtless. There are lots.
by Anonymous | reply 66 | July 15, 2022 2:18 AM |
He seemed to be a chubby pre-teen and then lost weight after that period.
by Anonymous | reply 67 | July 15, 2022 2:25 AM |
You’re right, R67. He’s about 11 in this picture.
by Anonymous | reply 68 | July 15, 2022 2:31 AM |
R66, I did and there's ONE. Where are you seeing the others?
by Anonymous | reply 69 | July 15, 2022 2:55 AM |
I saw them at the Hollywood Bowl when they were in concert with Sonny and Cher in the late 60s. Someone ran up to the stage when Sonny and Cher were on and Cher ran off the stage. Which was dumb because there is a barrier between the stage and the people in the audience. She finally came back when Sonny convinced her she was out of danger. Desi's band sang I'm a fool. I think Dean Martin's son was the best-looking of the trio. Desi looks a lot like his dad. He has the same eyes.
by Anonymous | reply 71 | July 15, 2022 3:12 AM |
R72, the article says he's 21.
by Anonymous | reply 73 | July 15, 2022 3:48 AM |
He was at the time of the interview, yes, but the caption for the photo says it was taken during the filming of Bo Bo Jones. He’d have been 18 the year it came out.
by Anonymous | reply 74 | July 15, 2022 3:51 AM |
I love Lucie Arnaz. Very talented and lovely.
by Anonymous | reply 75 | July 15, 2022 4:00 AM |
That's a hairy chest for 18.
by Anonymous | reply 76 | July 15, 2022 4:00 AM |
I had a lot of chest hair when I was a teen, and I'm Irish and English.
by Anonymous | reply 77 | July 15, 2022 10:21 AM |
Desi Sr.'s chest was relatively smooth. There was just a small patch of hair between his biceps. Junior must get his hirsuteness from Lucy Ball's side of the family.
by Anonymous | reply 78 | July 15, 2022 3:01 PM |
[quote]I had a lot of chest hair when I was a teen, and I'm Irish and English.
Oh behave.
by Anonymous | reply 79 | July 15, 2022 5:11 PM |
Are there any nude pics floating around? I couldn't find any with a simple google search.
by Anonymous | reply 80 | July 17, 2022 12:20 AM |
We're not your servants, OP.
by Anonymous | reply 81 | July 17, 2022 12:21 AM |
HUGE penis!
by Anonymous | reply 82 | July 20, 2022 11:20 PM |
Well, I like blue!
by Anonymous | reply 84 | September 13, 2022 10:02 AM |
Desi II should definitely have posed for Playgirl. It would have been the biggest selling issue of the mag ever.
by Anonymous | reply 85 | November 27, 2022 4:22 AM |
R85, I'll bet he had an epic dark bush.
by Anonymous | reply 86 | November 27, 2022 9:09 PM |
R83 holy shit, painful but actually humorous to watch. So groovy.
by Anonymous | reply 87 | November 27, 2022 9:13 PM |
His wife passed away a few years ago. He and Lucie are still close with his first wife, Linda Purl who recently found love again with Patrick Duffy.
by Anonymous | reply 88 | November 27, 2022 9:20 PM |
R83 Strangely arousing.
by Anonymous | reply 90 | November 28, 2022 2:05 PM |