Who was your celebrity crush when you were young?

The painfully obvious: Jennifer Connelly.

First saw her in Labyrinth when I was like 12, and she awoke something in me, and that continued when I saw The Rocketeer when my parents rented them from Blockbuster. Later when I was a little older she solidified that awakening when I saw Career Opportunities rented from Blockbuster myself once old enough to have my own account.

Alyssa Milano. She could have been my boss.

Alyssa Milano
\ Yvonne Craig
\ Eartha Kitt
\ Julie Newmar

Jessica Rabbit

Leonard Nimoy as Spock

Lead woman in the last movie I saw.

Maybe the most consistent was Hermione Granger, I say Hermione instead of Emma Watson bc I never saw her as anything else and had a crush on the book character too.

The other option might be Anna Kendrick.

Delores O'Riorden.

Watching her dance under a waterfall covered in gold paint for the music video for Zombie really did it for child me apparently.

Diana Rigg, but only because I was a big Bond nerd in high school.

Heath Ledger

Mine was seeing Cameron Diaz in the Mask when I was like 6. Her walking into that bank for the first time completely changed me.

Jennifer Connelly in The Rocketeer

Erika Eleniak and Tiffany Amber Thiessen.

Paul Rudd circa Clueless

Jonathan Taylor Thomas.

Danielle Fischel and Rider Strong (Topanga and Shawn from Boy Meets World). Trying to understand how I could be attracted to both led to some important realisations as a young teen...

Anyone remember: Kristy McNichol?

My boyhood dream.

Happy to be the first one to say Avril Lavegne

Christina Ricci

Scott Baio in the Happy Days era.

Ruby Rose

Astronema from Power Rangers IN SPACE, followed by Shirley Manson, the lead singer of Garbage. 😁

• Hudson Leick (Calisto on Xena)
• David Yost (Billy on MMPR)
• Toni Braxton (that Unbreak My Heart video? Come on!)
• Tyson Beckford (speaking of that video!)
• John Henson (Talk Soup)
• Tiffani-Amber Thiessen
• Siddig El Fadil
• And of course Terry Farrell

Eddie Vedder circa Ten. Sigh…

Tracey Gold

Man.....what 12 year old me would have given to explore Alex Mack's secret world....

Adrian Paul in The Highlander TV Series.

Earliest is Christina Ricci. I was 10 and the movie was Casper.

That crush continues to this day.

Helen Hunt

Aubrey Plaza

Still is

Lilu Multipass & Ruby Rhod

Linda Hamilton circa Beauty and the Beast

Michelle Pfeiffer circa Ladyhawke

Queen Latifah in Chicago

Lindsay Wagner, the bionic woman. I had no fear of strong women.

By look, Milla Jovovich in the 5th Element.

By sound, Tim Curry in Ferngully.

Christina Ricci. I was maybe 5 or 6 the first time I saw the Addams Family movies, I was already extremely into everything scary and/or Halloween adjacent, and she was only a few years older than I was, and she was both pretty and scary, and the boy she gets paired with in Values reminded me of me. The overall effect of this was to fill me with a deep-seated lifelong fondness for spooky women in general and her in particular. A few years after that I saw Casper, which only reinforced the effect, and Sleepy Hollow showed up just in time for me to hit puberty.

Fran Fine from The Nanny.

It was one of those 'I don't know if I fancy her or want to be her' type crushes and was basically the foundation for my love of fashion and personal style, and my predilection for annoying voices.

Also my mother hated her, which made me like her even more.

The earliest, specific crush on a celebrity I can remember was Lindsay Lohan in as early as 2003, but maybe 2005 or so. I was a middle schooler.

Jessica Alba then Emma Watson and then Megan Fox 💀

But I was more grown up for the later two. My child child crush was Jessica Alba 😂

Valerie Bertinelli

Blondie

Probably either Shakira or Brittney Spears.

Fergie from Black Eyed Peas

Alicia Silverstone