Embarrassing crushes you’ve had

Hold me, David -- I think I'm going to hurl.

Bert Parks. What a faggot

Bryant Gumbel

Topol

Tom Cruise

William Shatner. Young Captain Kirk was hot 😳

I’ve never confessed this to anyone before, but I was madly obsessed with Roddy McDowell when I was first realizing that I was gay at around age 11 in the early 70s.

Greg Davies--still have it tho.

Tulsi Gabbard.

Shut your mouths. After all the slobbering over Madison Cawthorn on this damn I do NOT want to hear it!

[quote]I’ve never confessed this to anyone before, but I was madly obsessed with Roddy McDowell when I was first realizing that I was gay at around age 11 in the early 70s.

Apparently not sufficiently obsessed to learn how to spell his name.

The late Ed Bradley from 60 Minutes.

Teenage Wally Cleaver when I was a kid.

ALL of them. Every single one has turned out to have feet of clay. I have abysmal judgement, apparently.

Tom Brokaw (in the 1980s).

Lord Merton on Downton Abbey (I don't even know the actor's name).

R2 he actually very straight.

David Letterman (during the run of his show - not now)

I'm not really embarrassed at all, but some people think it's peculiar that my first real "yeah I'm probably gay" "crush" was Mike Tyson. My middle school library had a magazine rack and he was in Life or Time magazine - standing in his boxing shorts, shirtless, hands on his hips, sweaty. This is when he was first became a boxing champion and was dating Robin Givens. I was briefly obsessed with him. He guest starred on Webster - a show I never watched - but I watched that episode. I bought the National Enquirer when he was featured just to see more pictures. He was so hot to me. And, I continued to like his type throughout my life - thick, big neck, broad features - no matter the guy's race.

R12 Absolutely nothing embarrassing about crushing on Tony Dow.

Pamela Anderson. I was a kid and Baywatch was huge

I had a huge crush on John Davidson when I was about 7 or 8.

I was in love with Russell Johnson, the professor on Gilligan's Island. I wanted to share a hut with him.

Shaun Cassidy

What is embarrassing about having a crush on a conventionally attractive famous man? Embarrassing would be like...Gene Shalit or Don Knotts.

Is Richard Dawson during the early seasons of Match Game embarrassing?

My crush had faded by the time he started Family Feud

"What is embarrassing about having a crush on a conventionally attractive famous man?"

I think people just broadened the thread to include crushes generally.

[quote][R2] he actually very straight.

he's actually very dead

I was going to confess my embarrassing crush. But after seeing people offer names like Tony Dow, Ed Bradley, and William Shatner, I feel like my (long ago) crush reaches a whole other level of shame.

I once had a crush on

omg I can’t even type it here

Tucker C.

(Isn’t that what this thread was supposed to be?)

no matter the guy's race …

Thanks for the gratuitous last sentence 🙄

I want to hate fuck Josh Hawley.

Al Gore? In the 90s, I thought he was HOT, and he was still a good-looking man in the 00s. Except for Newsweek calling him "Al Gorgeous," I felt like I was the only one. I once told a guy in an online chat that he looked like Al Gore (meant it as a compliment!), and he was like "WHAT?!!?!!?!"

John McEnroe. Not Bjorn Borg, but John. I even cut out articles and made a scrapbook. Guess I found the Jewfro sexy.

R31, I had a HUGE crush on Johnny Mac in the mid-80s when I was a pre-teen. I would cry when he lost!

Definitely Andre Agassi for me. Must have been the hair (weave) and those denim shorts.

[quote] I’ve never confessed this to anyone before, but I was madly obsessed with Roddy McDowell when I was first realizing that I was gay at around age 11 in the early 70s.

Your gaydar was working at age 11.

I was in love with John Payne at 8.

OP you better be kidding

Kirk Cameron when we were both teenagers

Greg Brady.

Jeffrey Hunter. As Jesus.

Praise the Lord🙏🏼

Belgian daddy Benoit Poelvoorde.

Papa John Philips.

r35 Not embarrassing at all.

Did I say I was embarrassed. I’m not a fluttering gayling.

I’m a final boomer who knew what I wanted…even then.

The heading I took as a prompt, not literally…

Too subtle?

What?

R46 read r43 duh

Charles Grodin, he was quite handsome, if a rather obnoxious talk show guest. I fell hard for him after seeing him in a Gene Wilder film called " The Woman In Red", Charles played a gay character, it was the first time I saw a gay man depicted as a normal person.

r44 Read the title of the thread.

R49 read r45

Jethro Bodine

Would Michael J. Fox count?

I think he's a talented actor and respect the hell out of him as a person, but he was not what anyone would consider handsome.

I just loved seeing him in his Calvins in Back to the Future.

I had the hots for all the male actors in Weird Science, particularly the nerd who woke up in Kelly's underwear.

In my defense, I was 14 and probably would have developed a crush on any dude who took his shirt off or looked like he might.

I have always found Joey Fatone incredibly sexy, even when he looked like a Jersey Shore cast member, during his "bleached porcupine" hair era and now that he resembles used car salesman. Sorry, but that man looks like he would be wild in bed.

I had an enormous crush on George Brett when I was 12! I am from Kansas City. I made my grandmother take me to see the Royals' homecoming parade after they won against the St. Louis Cardinals in the 1985 World Series. George rode by on a horse -- I was FREAKING OUT.

Not embarrassing per se, but I certainly cannot relate now to my child self. How basic is that, to crush on a famous baseball player? As an adult I haven't cared about any sports in about 30 years, except Olympic gymnastics and diving. But when you are a kid, you are an open channel. And as a Missouri native, that particular World Series, a civil war no less, was enthralling. George Brett was my guy.

Another one for John McEnroe here, R31. He was SO HOT. His Jew fro, his tantrums, his sweatbands, his little shorts. His muscular legs. His Irish features. His talent and drive. Heaven. And he still is, honestly, As a former art historian I renewed my crush for awhile when I found out he had segued into the art gallery space in NYC. He's just so unapologetically himself. And I loved Tatum, too.

Joe Pesci.

Michael Phelps

Bobby Flay

Christian Yelich

Lyle Alzado

R55 no shame. That’s an organic moment for a gay boy. You knew what you were before you knew it.

Actually, at 12 I was full cognizant of what I was. But you get what I mean—it was good then & good now.

I had a huge crush on the Theban commander Epaminondas, but I couldn’t bring myself to tell him because he’d been dead for 2,300 years.

R61, not gonna lie - I was so into Greek mythology because all the guys were naked and beautiful.

JEFF GOLDBLUM. Since I was little. And still today. A 40 year crush. Hottest septuagenarian alive, without question.

Don't laugh, but no joke Adam Ant was my dream boyfriend in the 80s, when I was coming of age. I wanted him so badly I used to literally have dreams about him. The Dandy Highwayman.

[quote] George rode by on a horse -- I was FREAKING OUT.

R55, you sound adorable. And yes, no shame. Baseball players are hot! Of the 3 major American sports (basketball, football, & baseball), IMO, baseball players are the sexiest. Especially the catchers in that squatting position, throwing balls, etc.!

Surely some of them had nice dicks.

Michael Ealy

Bjorn Borg

Jerry Rice& Steve Young

Cliff Lee

Michelle Phillips, Jamie Bell, Vanessa Williams and Rick Fox

Ball Four!

R67 more nonsense…

Genie Francis (as Laura Baldwin)

You want embarrassing? Mine was Mike Dukakis in 1988

Oof R71.

Even though he seemed a million years old at when I was 12/13, I wanted to kiss Phil Hartman’s face.

What a great, festering cunt you are, R10. Get a life.

(That's what I want my 11-year-old self to time travel to 2024 to say to you, you great, festering cunt).

According to my boyfriend my man-sized crush on Dan Abrams.

Aaron Schock. Then karma hit him in the face. Literally.

And if that weren't bad enough, Scottish former UK PM Gordon Brown's voice made me practically cream my pants:

Ravishing Rick Rude

R54, there is no shame in having a crush on Joey Fatone.

I was never much of an NSYNC fan, I preferred BSB, but having hung out with Joey at several cons I can tell you that he is not only incredibly sexy but such a sweet guy.

Seriously, he is no slouch either. I know people tease him about being Joey FAT ONE but he is in great shape. I think he just photographs that way or something.

He is marriage material.

Since you brought up Soap opera actors-Stuart Damon, Dr Alan Quartermaine-General Hospital.

At an AIDS fundraiser in LA a 100 years ago.

[quote]I had a huge crush on the Theban commander Epaminondas, but I couldn’t bring myself to tell him because he’d been dead for 2,300 years.

You could've contacted him through Madame Mertzola.

So, you've met him, R78? You cannot believe how jealous I am. Obviously, it's positive that I have never met him because I know that I would embarrass myself by behaving like a hysterical fangirl, but I agree that he's incredibly sexy. The reason why I have posted about him in here is because during the Boyband Era of the late 90s / early 00s, everyone said that he was fat and unattractive while obsessing about Timberlake and Nick Carter.

I was ten years old so don't think anything was sexual, but I so so so wished the Goonies could be my friends. We'd go have magical Goonie adventures. Except the fat one, he was kind of annoying.

Eric Trump, after he lost all the weight. Yes, I hate myself.

R78 words aren’t enuf: embarrassment, shame, remorse…all ugly

Dustin Hoffman in Kramer vs. Kramer. I was 15.

A real person I had an embarrassing crush on: He was 37, I was 49 and in the throes of a midlife crisis. He was adorable, probably Aspergers. Worked on film crews. We met at a Con. We saw each other for a year and a half, texting constantly in between trysts. We lived three hours apart and would meet half way in New Haven for sex and great dinners, and lots of laughs and cuddling. We had a blast. I saw him as someone I could nurture and adore. He saw me as an elder with wisdom and life experience. We had sexual chemistry. But he felt pressure from his family to settle down, which at 37 (and on the spectrum, something his family denied) seemed unobtainable. He wanted me, but also was so up in his neurotic head all the time that he ended up breaking things off to find a woman to have a family with. I was crushed. CRUSHED. It took me a two years to recover, and now I feel disgusted by the idea of dating. I'm only 51, I know I have a huge swath of life ahead of me, but I really was turned off by this experience. It was gut-wrenching. I realize that I ignored a ton of red flags and now I don't trust myself to choose wisely. I feel embarrassed by this crush. Embarrassed that I thought a millenial and a Gen X could couple up and embarrassed at how many red flags and weirdness I sucked up just to be with this guy. Embarrassed how desperate I was, and how destroyed I was when he broke it off. It was a very stupid experience.

Jesse Ventura

Irene Cara's raisin titties from Fame gave me hours of fap enjoyment.

R86 it didn’t happen because your expository writing skills are lacking.

To R88-in the movie theatre, my buddy yelled out-"Coco Tits"

Tim Consodine on The Hardy Boys

er...Tim Considine

I wish it didn't happen, R89. But it did. I got a DUI in the throes of the break up and it fucked up my entire life for awhile. If I wanted to make something up I would have been much more creative. "He was a French financier, I was a male model in Paris, his wife found out" etc etc. This experience was very sweet, very silly and very real. I learned some lessons and it fast-tracked me through my manic midlife crisis and placed my back down on solid ground, so I guess maybe it was worthwhile. Also our relationship was during Covid so I cannot complain I got some sex and companionship during a time when many people were feeling very alone.

A young Kirk Russell

Topher Grace

Edward Norton

Elon Musk, before he became weird.

Ew, R97! You were turned on by sperm tissue?

I admit at about 13 years old I had a crush on Bob Uecker who at the time was starring in Mr. Belvedere. He always wore these tight jeans and it really did it for me. Daddy issues, ahoy!

benjamin franklin

Well duh. R71 — who wouldn’t be turned on by the raw power of this hunk of raging manflesh?

The Hager twins from “HeeHaw” made me feel funnydown there. God knows why.

English singer Nik Kershaw (who is 5'4" and shrinking as we speak) and Limahl

[quote]The Hager twins from “HeeHaw” made me feel funnydown there. God knows why.

Probably their 1973 nude spread for Playgirl.

Levi Johnston -- He is as dumb as a box of rocks and hillbilly Republican trash I know. But I liked him for his looks and how eager he was to take off all his clothes at the first given opportunity for Playgirl.

Yikes! What a find!

What a find at R104, I meant.

Fuck Wally Cleaver. I was all about Lumpy.

Jheri curled Mario Lopez from the Saved by the Bell era. Now with all of the plastic surgery he looks like an old Chinese lady.

Mike Minor - Steve the Pilot on Petticoat Junction.

[quote] Fuck Wally Cleaver. I was all about Lumpy.

I liked Wally a lot but Eddie Haskell was my kind of bad boy.

Wendell Wilkie

^Willkie

Jesus Christ OP....that is pretty embarrassing.

You're brave to admit it.

[quote]I was ten years old so don't think anything was sexual, but I so so so wished the Goonies could be my friends. We'd go have magical Goonie adventures. Except the fat one, he was kind of annoying.

I was the same way with the STAND BY ME boys, including the older gang. 😂

In my childhood fantasies, we were all friends.

[quote]I had a crush on Bonnie Franklin.

"Embarrassing" doesn't begin to describe this particular pathology.

Sam the Butcher. Pretty sure he and Alice were mutually bearding in a lavender relationship.

I mean...not embarrassing to ME but definitely in the spirit of this thread.

This is a recent thing, but Ken Jennings.

Sorry, I'll phrase that in the form of a question - who is someone I want inside me quite deeply?

Ulysses Grant

Justin Bieber -- Very basic I know, and he is an arrogant prick. But there is just something about him that gives off sex appeal.

Bill Hemmer = Closet Case Tool

When I was 20 years old I crushed hard on Greg Kinnear. I remember mailing a big, humorous Christmas Card. I mailed it to his management office address.

Jeff Gillooly, Tanya Harding’s ex-husband!

Okay, this is embarrassing. When I was a kid and saw Paper Moon, I crushed on Burton Gilliam, the guy who played the inept hotel desk clerk.

I was attracted his big goofy grin and tall, buff body. He was in other movies, too, like Blazing Saddles and Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, and I found him so sexy.

He’s still on the market —go for it!

Pete the butcher, from the Shake-n-Bake commercials in the ‘70s. I was just a kid, and for some reason I pictured him on the beach in a bathing suit!

R127, he played Rocky on Another World, murdered by Sven.

For selling foul fowl?

Really, r128, that was the same guy as Pete the butcher??? I had no idea, and I watched Another World with my grandmother during that storyline. Didn’t they find Rocky in a bag, under the boathouse? Roberts Blossom (later, from Home Alone) was scary. I’ll never forget Helga, Sven, or Regina. But I never made the Rocky connection.

My pharmacist who turned his back on me after I accidentally farted in his presence.

Maybe it doesn't fit in the category "embarrassing", but maybe "weird", given the fact that he died almost 20 years ago, but once I casually saw the film "Lone Survivor", I started having a massive crush on Michael P. Murphy and often jerked off imaginating him banging me with his NAVY SEAL uniform.

You have most of it right r130, as far as I can remember. I'm certain it's the same guy.

Wilbur on "Mister Ed".

R130, I looked him up and his name was John Braden. On IMDB they mention his Shake 'n Bake commercials under "other works"

JD Vance!!!

An 1856 Belter New Orleans Rococo sofa!!!

LEAVE MY HANDSOME HUSBAND ALONE, YOU GAYS!!!

Snow, of "Informer " fame. It was the glasses, which are still a thing, but Canadian bros certainly aren't.

Nancy Kulp!

[quote]What a great, festering cunt you are, [R10]. Get a life. That's what I want my 11-year-old self to time travel to 2024 to say to you, you great, festering cunt). —R7

Yes, r74. Not as much for the correction, but for not providing the correct spelling.

I embrace my Roddy McDowall crush. Attractive, funny, clever, charming - what's not to love?

He was also a great photographer, a fantastic party thrower, and was reportedly hung.

I'm still pissed about his moratorium on his memoirs. No one who cares would still be alive. I have to admire his discretion, though.

Here is is on Password, with Elizabeth Ashley

Bill Mumy when he was a little kid on Lost in Space. Tbf, I was about the same age as him.

Bob Barker, Richard Dawson, Grayson Hall, Anthony Geary, Paul Lynde, Richard Simmons - I guess those could be considered embarrassing.

Oh and the magnificent Charles Nelson Reilly - and Tony Randall.

Barry Manilow. Until the late 80s. Not since.

r141 go jump in a lake.

More Roddy love for r7.

Aquaman, Bam Bam and Race Bannon - obviously I liked blonds.

Racer X, older brother of Speed Racer.

I wanted to down on him while he's wearing the mask, swallow his babies and get fucked hard.

I got a older man (20 yrs. Old) to put on the Racer X mask when I was 11 yrs. old. My FB older brother Joey, we had fun.

William Brangham of PBS' Newshour.

His voice gets me hard.

Blossom, Bubbles, Buttercup.

Young butch bitches.

Peter Baker-NYT reporter and MSNBC reporter too.

During the lockdown, I had told my ex-wife& her wife about my fantasy with Peter Baker (and u guys on DL). I wanted to be under his desk while he was talking live on Nicole Wallace's show, servicing him& swallowing his nutt.

Alexandria& Nadine told Peter Baker about my fantasy and when at a dinner party, he told me my ex-wife told him about it. After turning red, my ex told me she never saw me without a comeback.

Michael Smerconish.

I had a huge crush on Paul Michael Glaser, who played Hutch on Starsky & Hutch. The crush intensified dramatically with the TV movie The Great Houdini.

R153 Nothing embarrassing about. A lot of us who were young gaylings at the time crushed on him and David Soul.

I couldn't wait to watch Starsky and Hutch every week hoping they'd be shirtless in at least one scene. And if they weren't, I'd just sit in front of the TV and be mesmerized by their bulges and asses in their tight jeans.

R154 And those sexy sweaters!

To R155-LOVED those sweaters!!

Got one for Christmas from a normal foster mom, loved it!!

Holy tight-shorts, Batman!

White boy who grew up in middle to upper middle class leafy NY suburbia. My father was a catholic socialist how made good as an engineer. One time he put us in the station wagon and drove us into Manhattan to show us how the "other half lived". I would have ben the early 70s. He drove us through skid a row - the Bowery when it was really the Bowery - a few times and told us the history of it. Then through the Lower East Side and far East Village, and then up through and around Harlem. I was astonished by all the hot men of color. It was a sweltering day and many were dressed very skimpily. I was supposed to find it all very sobering and yet it was one hot buck after another and I could sometimes see GIANT VPL. I had no idea cocks could be so huge. I was mesmerized the entire tour, and quite hot and bothered.

R152 - that one is repulsive.

Dorothy Provine, my first crush. As a little boy.

Oliver North in the '80s.

I was in grade school during the Iran-Contra Affair, but I thought he was so handsome when I saw him on TV in his uniform on the stand.

I remember I felt compelled to hug him and kiss him on the cheek, because he looked so sad. 😂

I think r161 has won this thread.

Everyone from Badr Hari (no excuse) to Larry David! I don't have a type.

The Lone Ranger, the TV one. Also, the TV Zorro.

The TV Zorro was Guy Williams, who later starred in "Lost in Space."

R161 I met him in the mid-90s. He was breathtaking.

R166 no way! How did that come about?

I'm a gay man but when I was very young I had a crush on Anneka Rice. She will only mean anything to other Brits. But I'd go horribly shy whenever she was on the television. I'd blush then run and hide. My dad still likes to bring that up.

Well, that's a challenge.

I'll see myself out.

Until my early teens I was obsessed with Bette Midler.

Oliver North seemed stupid.

My hot water heater

Why are you heating water that's already hot?

I have an embarrassing crush on the hairy guy in this pic. He was someone's dad on Reddit.

I currently have a crush on Jeff Mauro, especially now that he's thinned down. He's such a goofball.

I wasn't embarrassed about crushing on Richard Chamberlain during his "Dr. Kildare" run and then years later when he was in The Thorn Birds.

The embarrassing crush: Barbara Stanwyck on Big Valley and in The Thorn Birds

I had a crush on Heather Locklear

I crush on my muse, Lindsey.

I had a huge crush on the big blond football player/wrestler in my high school. That's not embarrassing, but what is embarrassing is that I'm still in love with him. His wife has a Facebook page and I stalk him on it. He's 60 and graying now, but he's still hot.

Op is in-fact hopeless AND a Bonnie Franklin troll of epic proportions

Beyond basic… at 14 I used to tune in regularly to the insipidity of the Dukes of Hazzard, in hopes that we might get a few seconds of gratuitous Bo and Duke shirtlessness, with bonus points for an incestuous vibe.

Roy Hay from Culture Club, before the hair extensions

A dear lesbian couple

Corey Lewandowski

[quote]Shaun Cassidy—Da doo ron ron

Oh, please.

R120, Ulysses Grant was quite handsome.

Speaking of presidents - young Theodore Roosevelt.

And James Garfield.

I had a crush on Vicky's brother from the sitcom "Small Wonder"

I had a crush as a kid on Robert Hegyes from Welcome Back Kotter.

Bob Denver (back when I was probably 11). I thought he was cute when he played Gilligan.

Not really embarassing per se but cutie Jeff Goldblum. I was 10 and saw Earth girls are easy and he was the 1st adult male I truly felt a more adult kind of lust for. Before that it was all infantile crushes on boys my age. This was...different.

Harry Houdini

Sally Struthers

Hans Conried, as Dr. Terwilliker, in The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.

James Mattis.

Jack Carson. Especially in Mildred Pierce.

R196 Jack Carson, yes!

Carl Betz, Donna Reed's TV husband.

Ron Eldard

I second Carl Betz...the first chest hair I saw as a young grayling and it did it for me for life

R190 Me, too!

I loved his hairy chest and the way his ass looked in his jeans.

R188 Wow, James Garfield was stunning.

Exquisite!

Those eyes, those lips, that face...

That reminds me, LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE was a decade before my time, but I grew up watching some of the reruns.

I remember learning t was based on real people and coming across this picture of Almonzo Wilder online.

I was immediately smitten and liked him a lot more than the actor who played him on the TV series. haha

Rod Roddy

I would have cum on down him any day of the week!

R193 Nothing embarrassing about crushing on Harry Houdini.

My young gayling loins stirred when I saw his hunky little body in chains and only a bedazzled loincloth.

Gordon from Sesame Street.

I loved his big, thick moustache and mutton chop sideburns.

Addison DeWitt from ‘All About Eve’.

I love Addison DeWitt voice, it's so EVIL.

Tommy Vietor of "Pod Save America." He has a very sexy voice.

I used to get an erection, and masturbate, over those scrubbing bubbles guys. I wanted to penetrate them soooo bad.