Singers, actors, athletes, whatever! Post 'em if you crush on 'em!

I thought I'd launch with perhaps a less-expected crush. I'm pretty sure Teeds can verify my crush on Jennifer Hudson from the dawning days of her American Idol stint, when she was overweight, extra-talented, and continually being put down by Simon Cowell in favor of his beloved Fantasia. I like to think J-Hud had the last laugh there.




I still a decade-plus later haven't gotten over her being eliminated after launching this old Manilow number into the stratosphere:

WOW!

I was already a fan of hers, now I'm even more of a fan (I only watched Idol s3 sporadically, for reasons I can't remember).

This also reminds me, I still haven't seen Dreamgirls.

Must rectify.

This one's gonna take several posts.

First, Claudia Christian today:

Claudia in the great 1987 B-movie The Hidden:

Claudia on a 1991 episode of LA Law as a transgender model (her character is both sympathetic and has a happy ending, almost unheard of those less enlightened days.)

I haven't heard of her but she's quite the looker!

Claudia in a promotional photo for the underrated 1993 comedy Hexed, where she played the date from hell:

http://www.ivid.it/fotogallery/imag..._christian_alan_spencer_009_jpg_tswk.jpg

Indeed!

Claudia in her best-known role, as Ivanova on Babylon 5:

https://neatnik2009.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/a-distant-star-04.jpg

The NASHVILLE cast is full of crushworthies! Let's open with Gunnar, Scarlett, and Avery. Now I'm not saying I want to see their sex tape, but IF one exists, I'm also not saying I won't track it down.

PS/Gunnar, my primary crush, is at far left! (swoons over hairdo!!)

^Now I've got to borrow the Nashville DVDs from the library.

Thank you, Lash.

Oh I just LOVE that show!!

Here's another reason, my old pal Chris Carmack as closeted country sensation Will Lexington, making a massive newbie-gay faux pas:

Oooh I have got to show this to Blaze, he's going to love it!

Scarlett singing BLACK ROSES:

One final post from NASHVILLE, as most of the cast of crushworthies appear in this season-ending clip of star and former-Cheerleader on HEROES Hayden Pannettiere belting the crap out of a real tear-jerker (she's a great singer!) but, umm, beware possible spoilers!!!

Wow, crushworthy indeed. I may have to check this show out even though I normally avoid watching TV series.



I just HAD to go watch the kiss again!

A good TV series will be there for you when people aren't.

And good TV series go so well with ice cream, alcohol, nachos, a good pillow and a big box of tissues

Yep, like a good old-fashioned celebrity crush!

Such as Judson Birza, youngest winner of SURVIVOR to date! Holy hopped-up hubba dumplings, he's a pretty one!! He went on to star in one of those 1313 softcore gay flicks that basically consist of hot twinks in tighty whities walking around plotting to kill each other or eyeing and/or pawing each other. Yes, I watched some of it.

Why, when a friend of mine over on FACEBOOK was looking for casting suggestions for some of the Teen Titans, I had one ready for him, and he loved it.




(dreamy sigh) It all very much reminds me of this song:

^One of my favorite cover versions, and one of my favorite music videos. Love what Roth and his crew achieved with the colors!

Backtracking for a moment to Nashville, the library catalog doesn't have any Nashville DVDs. I assume it's possible to watch it online, at the ABC website or something, but I've never done that kind of thing outside of YouTube. Could you please help me out, Lash?

I know the entire series is available on HULU PLUS, but that's $7.99 a month. Let me do some peeping around, BRB.

Thankies.

At ABC, only the current season 3 is available for viewing. Although seasons 1-2 are recapped nicely, this isn't quite enough. Let me keep looking a bit.


http://abc.go.com/shows/nashville/episode-guide/season-01

HULU PLUS *does* say you can cancel anytime... so for $8, you can cram in the entire series plus lots of other stuff?


http://www.hulu.com/plus?show=nashv...des&gclid=CLGD6MTYxsICFQcOaQodtYUA2A

Unfortunately, I'm not seeing it available elsewhere. I'd reckon some of those file-sharing sites have it, but the quality there is usually awful!

Thank you for searching, Lash. I'll content myself with Season 3 for the time being, and see where I go from there.

Still thinking about which celebrity crush to do next. I'll drop a clue, though. One of my finalists has something in common with the color red.

Season 3 has been fun! Wish we could've started you from the beginning though.

I'm at a loss about which celeb crush to feature next. J-Hud and Judson, I've covered. NASHVILLE cast, check, plus Chris Carmack has his own thread already here. Of course, there's always that guy who is a dead ringer for our very own Power Boy:





His real name is Ryan and he's a fairly popular male model for obvious reasons to regulars on the PB thread. Pretty crazy hot, that one.

Oh, oh!! I know! The DELL DUDE himself, by BFF on Facebook Ben Curtis!!

Good choice, Lash. I think the Dell Dude is adorable.

For me, it's Scarlett Johnasson, best known as the Marvel Comics Movie Universe's Black Widow.

But before she became the Black Widow, Scarlett impressed me as a comedienne in a mid-2000s Saturday Night Live sketch about a family of Noo Yawkers who sell chandeliers. Unfortunately, this tiny thing was the only pic I could find:

http://ib4.huluim.com/video/50061955?size=220x124

I wonder if the skit is on Youtube? I suspect Scarlett is a favorite of many others too!

Sex scene

Lash, I'm so glad you suggested that. I didn't find the chandelier sketch, but I did find one of the sequels, with Scarlett still having a ball in her role as Lexi:

Emma Stone for me

Coincidentally, one of Emma's co-stars in The House Bunny was a crush of mine, and the second American Idol graduate in this thread, Katharine McPhee:



I'll post some of Kat's songs tomorrow.

I can't claim to have McPheever as a crush, but THIS was certainly on FIRE:

One of my latest is NPR correspondent Ari Shapiro. He's smart, handsome, witty, and openly gay. And he can sing!

Openly gay is always a plus when it comes to crushes! Zachary Quinto became twice as handsome for me when he came out. Neil Patrick Harris is another openly gay celeb I admire.

And because of Rocky's post I think I'm crushing on Ari Shapiro too!

Awesome!

Cool!

As promised, some Kat songs.

From American Idol:

From her first album:

Also from her first album:

And, finally, something appropriately seasonal and festive:

So I admit to having a weakness for floppy-haired pretty boys as has been clearly evidenced here. But I appreciate all types. Like the type with an edge. A hint of danger. A little bit of "will he or won't he (beat me up)"? Adam Baldwin, the man they call Jayne himself!! (as with all my thumbnails, click to enlarge)

Gillian Anderson. I had such a crush on her in the 90s, that I actually deluded myself into thinking I liked the X-Files!

Gillian today:

A vintage Legion World thread about Gillian:

http://www.legionworld.net/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=570612&page=1

Definitely the guy from trance-dance act ATB. That guy has mastered ONE facial expression: angsty longing desire. Hey, go with what works for ya I say! YUM YUM.

Blaze has a big crush on a country singer called Tanner Patrick.

One of the reasons I really like the new Flash series is the lovely men on the show, including:
Grant Gustin (Barry) who I have enjoyed since he played a wicked Warbler on Glee.
Robbie Amell (Ronnie Raymond) who was awesome in last year's The Tomorrow People remake.
Rick Cosnett (Eddie). His character is a bit annoying, but he's hot.
And, last but not least, John Wesley Shipp (Henry Allen), on whom I've crushed since I was twelve years old when I first saw him on Guiding Light. He still looks amazing, too!

And, sorry, Lash, Cisco doesn't do a thing for me.

I just wish Zachary Quinto would stop calling me. And I finally got that restraining order against Evan Peters.

What? Oh! this is about celebrities I have a crush on and not celebrities who have crushes on me. Never mind!

I will put down Russell Tovey as a celebrity crush

Zachary Quinto is dreamy. You can divert his call to me next time, Quis!

Charli XCX. I haven't had this much of a crush on a pop star since Lady Gaga's 2008-2010 heyday. This Scottish/Indian cutie has charisma to burn, a good voice, a ear for a hook, and she doesn't hide her love of partying.

Subscribe to her YouTube channel now:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOvEMf00DnwdkpOCRWdc6uA

^ good choice, Fanfie!

Thanks, Ibby.

Thank God someone's come along to snatch the Queen of Pop crown from the hateful K*ty P*rry.

Charlie XCX will definitely give her a run for the money.

Blaze used to have a big crush on Ian Somerhalder, but then moved on to Chace Crawford.

I, on the other hand, would very much love to meet Godfrey Gao.

Blaze just sent me a pic of his newest crush, Donovan Prince!

I just realized Zac Efron is my age. Mmmm.

Zach Efron is a male beauty, no doubt. I think I prefer him when he grows up to be Chip Eston, who plays Deacon on NASHVILLE!

Even dressed down, Charli is adorable.

http://images.tvrage.com/people/139/414152.jpg

It's the ALL-BEN MCKENZIE post! He's always reminded me of someone very special to me so I will always like him!! LOVE him as James Gordon on GOTHAM!

I like Ben's OC co-star Mischa Barton.

One of my favorite pictures of her, from around the time I joined Legion World:

Dennis Oh!

I will snatch a bitch's weave out over Apollo Ohno, do you hear me? SNATCH A BITCH'S WEAVE. So you best back up off my boy UNLESS YOU WANT YOUR WEAVE SNATCHED OUT.

Rocky has it partially right at the bottom of page 2. THE FLASH is full of hawt-TAYS. Including Rick Cosnett as Eddie. I'm all like, "DAY-UM. Sit your fine ass down and quit being so HOT for 5 seconds, why don't you, you sexy freak bastard?"



HOWEVER. The guy playing Barry (Grant Gus-whichever) is WAY too sparkle-twinky looking for me. I mean, sure he's cute, for the girls or whatever. Robbie Amell is cute but a bit too every-guy. And Cisco is ADORBS, so Rocky was wrong there. (kindly smile of correctiveness) The REAL flaming, scorching hawtness on THE FLASH is among the villains like Captain Cold:



^Wentworth Miller

and as Girder, Greg Finley:





One more hawt villain, and I'm going full-on ROGUE.

An hilarious skit featuring the adorbz majorly crushable comedic talents of Ike Barinholtz (taking pics at the start, in wifebeater) plus others!

Ike and boyz at it again!

OK, one more. This is the first one featuring vital origin info!

Hey, you take Cisco, I'll take Barry and Ronnie. It's win-win!

Nothing wrong with having too many crushes...

Blaze and I have this big thing for Kyle XY cutie Matt Dallas, so you can imagine our excitement when we found out he is gay!

Why, I'll take Cisco right now! (uses imagination)

Don't forget the butter, Lash!

Okay so you all know how drug dealers and dudes on the corner you can pay to "do stuff" are really hot as long as they don't kill you, right? Pitbull personifies that like no other celeb!





This video features the also crushable Kesha who is like the daughter Pitbull and I will raise together!

Pitbull and Kesha rock! Not always the best singers, but their songs are always danceable!

They've both had a pretty amazeballs string of hits.

Yeah, every party I attend has the DJ playing at least one song from eàch of them.

Yeesh. Looking back over this, I'm kinda weirded out that there's so much focus from me on hippie-haired pretty boys. I've always thought I was pretty diverse tastewise. Maybe it's a celeb thing. Anyhoo, onto the next hippie-haired pretty boy!

Yes, it's the lad Rocky rejected, Cisco from THE FLASH as played by Carlos Valdes! I was smitten with his adorable smile and affable good nature from the get-go. He actually is ALMOST too sparkle-twinkie looking for me, but I still find myself drawn in. It's that smile. I hate the way in later episodes they've tried to butch him up a little by making him say how hot some chick is. It ISN'T very convincing when it happens. (smile)




BTDubbs, I was worried it was just a great hair thing, but I also find him super bangable here too:



So I won't giggle if he feels like being butchy.

I prefer shorter hair on my boys, like with the majority of these Asian hotties!

http://www.buzzfeed.com/javiermoreno/gorgeous-asian-men-guaranteed-to-make-you-thirsty?s=mobile

^Sweet link!! Re-checking, I think I've included enough non-hippie haired guys to feel less weirded out. Here's one more, David Denman, probably best known as Roy from THE OFFICE. Big dumb blue eyed guys with brown hair rock.

Sweet! Reminds me of the younger (just turned 40) French George Clooney lookalike Blaze and I met in Bangkok... he sure knew how to charm a guy...

Skylar Astin has appeared on GLEE and stars in GROUND FLOOR on TBS. GROUND FLOOR is by the same guy behind SCRUBS and COUGAR TOWN so check it out. 'Til then, let's all look at Skylar... mmm. (hey I wonder if he's related to the famous Astin family of actors? Probs)

I saw him in Pitch Perfect. He was dreamy-talented!

Because I like you guys, I will give you my current top 3 celebrity crushes!

1) The hilarious, talented, and very lovely Carrie Brownstein!

2) America's sweetheart, Taylor Swift!

3) Everyone's favorite Mythbusting hottie, Kari Byron!

All are indeed crushable! I would gladly date Carrie and Kari (are the like-sounding names a coincidence? :p) but I would be afraid to date Taylor Swift lest I be immortalized in her next song!

Kari Byron! Top three moments on Mythbusters:

1) standing atop the truck firing the .30cal machine gun cutting down the tree. Standing there in glasses, a green sundress and lookin' fine.

2) Standing on the earthquake plate during the the "standing in the doorway" myth. Oh yeaaaah.

3) Any other time she's on screen.

Joked with the wife about her, and she said that's fine, she's taking Tory as her luv slave.

The amazing Melanie Iglesias

^ I'm mostly gay, but that turned me on!

I first became aware of Colton Haynes on THE GATES. The boy was stunning. He was the top reason I got so much into TEEN WOLF, and when he left its homoerotic shores, so did my interest in the show. Fortunately he's rocking it out on ARROW as Roy Harper.

And because he's tried very desperately to get all traces of these pre-breakout photos removed from the web:



Quit trying to quash your gayness, Colton, everyone KNOWS... and it's OKAY, really.

You're stunning and not a gay man or straight chick on earth doesn't think you're hot.







Yes you ARE, puddin', yes you ARE.

I love hot, handsome gay boys!

Like Matt Dallas, whose eyes make Blaze and me swoon. I could get lost in them all day...

He IS pretty, was he that XY or whatever guy?

Yes, he was Kyle XY! Which means he has this sexy deep voice to go along with his boyish good looks.

He is also gay and engaged to musician Blue Hamilton. They're both a bit older than me (32 and 35), which suits me just fine as I love slightly older, mature guys. If Blaze and I ever meet them I hope they're up for some couple double-dating, tee hee!

As for Colton, I have chanced across quite a few websites where he is one of the most discussed male celebs. And for good reason, I might add!

Hey y'all! Recent, extensive research has determined that my ultimate celebrity crush is DAVE, from Happy Endings! He's fun, owns a steak sandwich truck, is super-cute, and is straight yet sensitive, which just means he doesn't know he's in love with me yet! So I'll assume Zachary Knighton, who plays him, is the same!



CTE

I'm gayer than the locker room at the Ice Follies, but DAMN.

Well help him out with that knowledge so you can get me some free steak sandwiches! (I mean actual sandwiches, I'll leave the smut-talk to you.)

Oh, you'd just love him. the name of his food truck? STEAK ME HOME TONIGHT. Yes, STEAK ME HOME TONIGHT. (dreamy sigh) He's the hippest and dreamiest!!!

He's the sort of older man I would totally go for!

No. We mustn't have another Donna Troy/Terry Long situation here. You, the nubile teenage flower plucked by the 30s-mish guy who is old enough to be your brother or cousin. NO, no, NO!

Pshaw! I've already had two tempestuous love affairs with men who were 15 years my senior! (they both did look young for their age though!)

I'm way behind on this thread but a few things:

Taylor Swift is not only the last truly great pop superstar in the world, she's also the hottest! I love her!

I agree with Fanfie about Scarlet Johanson! Sometimes if I think too hard about her in public, I can't stand up right away until I think about baseball for a few minutes!

As a straight male, I can somehow still understand Lash's attraction to Pitbull, since son my list of debaucherous things I need to do in my life, #4 is actually "have Pitbull be my guide for a no-hold's barred weekend in Miami". If I live through it, I can't wait to tell everyone about it! And I hope those sisters from Romania are there!

There are lots of celebs and psuedo-celebs that I'm crushing on at all times. I randomly saw the "Problems" video by Ariana Grande and almost went full Terry Long! Luckily I haven't been able to sit through any other of her videos, which are usually terrible.

I've been crushing on Olivia Wilde well before she was uber-popular! Ever since she had a total makeout sesh with Marissa from the OC, I was down. Then she was on the best show that never made it, the Black Donnelys, and I was hooked. Then she made House a must-watch show and I started to get VERY JEALOUS of the rest of the world eying my girl. Nowadays, people don't even remember that Olivia and I dated before she was famous in a crazy-person fantasy land type of way.

Also loving Anna Kendrick, who is funny and talented in addition to be fall down on my face beautiful.

The fictional character / person who truly stole my heart on television--my #1 TV crush--is probably Hillary Burton, who was on One Tree Hill for many years. My wife started watching it and I was all Mr. Cool and made fun of her. Hillary had a few scenes and suddenly I was glued to my television for 6 long teen angsty seasons.

I think the video for "Bang Bang" is awesome. The only reason I didn't post it here is because, unfortunately, Ariana shares vocals with the annoying Jessie J.

I'll clarify: she is awesome in that video! When she does that clapping thing, I get all hot and have to lie down.

But Jesse J and Nikki Minaj ruin it for me. Especially Nikki.

But Ariana is still my girl in this one!

More Ari Shapiro! This man is so crushable!

http://www.pinterest.com/pin/574349758700363180/

Grooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwlllllll!

Girls with guns. (Both the kind that go bang and biceps!)

Erica Cerra, as Deputy 'Jo' Lupo.



Oh no, a ticket won't do. I've been very bad and you should break out the cuffs, officer Lupo!

Other contenders for my fickle celebrity crush-of-the-moment...

Claudia Black, who could have been the Amazon-iest Wonder Woman, ever (I don't know if she's actually Greek, but she sure looks it!).



Angela Basset, who could have been 10x the Storm that Halle Berry ended up being.



And Gina Torres, just because.

Angela Bassett made an awesome action heroine in "Strange Days", a very underrated movie IMO.

All good choices. I'm particularly drawn to Claudia Black.

I never ever heard before of Claudia Black! I'll have to do some investigating. Thanks, Set.

She's quite fun in the SciFi show Farscape, and has some great chemistry with the male lead. (Both actors sort of recapped their relationship as completely different / annoyingly similar characters in the last season of Stargate, IIRC.)

She plays a hard-nosed military officer from a somewhat elitist Nazi analogue race, stuck with a bunch of criminals and unable to return (as she's been branded an associate of them and tainted by association). She's uber-competent and super-practical, which makes her kind of the 'straight man' to the hijinks the various alien misfits are up to.

And yeah, Angela Basset in Strange Days was *incredible.* It's some sort of travesty of justice that Bradley Cooper, who was second fiddle to her in that movie, went on to be some sort of sex symbol, and she got sidelined for so long.

She ate up the screen in American Horror Story: Coven, as well. (As did Kathy Bates, surprisingly, in an utterly hateful role that she didn't just eat up, she *devoured* with gusto!)

There's a universe where Angela Bassett played Storm in the X-Men movie, instead of Halle Berry. In that universe, they have a cure for cancer, and we've started colonizing Mars.

Gina Torres is fierce on suits, she ALWAYS wins.

Tim Daly on Madame Secretary!

He plays a very supportive professor husband by day ... occasional CIA agent.

Sup Zach

I've been watching a lot of Mad Men lately and Christina Hendricks is

Perky breastaloons!

The best kind!

One of Yorkshire's greatest daughters, Lena Headey from Game of Thrones (which I don't watch, even though I like her and other cast members,) the TV series iteration of the Terminator franchise, and more:



I like that she's willing to be goofy, like in the ^above^ pic of her I chose. Just makes me crush on her even more!!

Salma Heyek. She's fifty, fierce, and still KaDamn!

Since 5:45 this morning, I am officially crushing on SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE'S KATE MCKINNON!





To think it all started with me waking up early and randomly surfing SNL videos on YouTube. Then I got a recommendation for "Kate McKinnon's Best Moments" (of which there's at least 7 videos), and, well, the rest is herstory.

Given her proclivity for playing all kinds of characters covering the entire gender spectrum, I've started fantasizing about her and I doing some foreplaying-roleplaying as Marvel characters Quasar (right, Kate), and Kismet (left, me.)

Aha! A thread I can get behind It’s been awhile since I updated it, so some thoughts on celebrities I’m crushing on.

It’s an era where females can be strong and athletic yet also feminine and beautiful, perhaps no athlete represents that better than the amazing Michelle Jenneke. Suddenly, the Summer Olympics just got a whole lot better for me these past few years!!



And speaking of female athletes, I have to mention that when I was a kid, I like so many others used to love wrestling. That faded around college age for me, but every once in a while I would check it out to see if it was as fun as I remembered (spoiler: it’s definitely not). One thing that stood out immediately was how many talented, athletic and incredibly beautiful female wrestlers there are! Starting with two incredible ones: Alexa Bliss and Sasha Banks!





From there I have to turn to one of my favorite shows, Vikings, and mention perhaps the hottest woman on the planet, Katheryn Winnick, who plays Lagertha. I couldn’t settle on one video to post so here’s the google image search of her. Be warned…she’s so beautiful that it hurts. Katheryn Winnick Lagertha



Lastly, I have to mention a woman I’ve long had a crush on who somehow has gotten only more attractive with age, Keri Russell. The Americans is not only one of the best shows on television, but my girl looks good.

I haven't seen "Vikings", but I remember Katheryn Winnick from that Bravo show "The IT Factor" - a reality show that followed around several up and coming actors in their struggles to make it. (including Hawkeye, Jeremy Renner) Glad to see she's been doing well. Too bad she didn't get the Captain Marvel gig - it would have been a cool "reunion" from that show.

Sarah Shahi is a current celebrity crush for me. And, of course I did, I found a picture of her with a gun!

The short lived TV series Life is amazingly fun, and she's a central character in it, and she's also got a fun role in Person of Interest.