Celebrity Crushes

Categories: uncategorized, life-in-general, lovely-things

Date: 29 September 2012 13:23:09

Katrin, over at the Land of Candy Canes asked about people's first celebrity crushes...It got me thinking about my first crush on somebody (that I can remember!) and it was Ben Murphy from "Alias Smith and Jones" a TV programme that I loved, when I was about 14 or 15.

This could be the very same image that I had sellotaped to the inside of my desk lid when I was in the Upper Fourth for...or maybe it was this one:

My friend preferred the rugged good looks of Pete Duel, who sadly shot himself, through depression, at the age of 31, but I was thrilled by the boyishness of Ben Murphy.

I then moved on to crushing over David McCallum, who played Flight-Lieutenant Simon Carter in Colditz.

That stiff upper lip! Swoon! Swoon! Be still, my beating heart!

My friend preferred Anthony Valentine, who played the cold nasty Nazi prison guard, but not me. No, I was in love with the RAF hero, who (according to the biog ) had been "Married only for a short while to his wife Cathy, he misses her desperately and tries many times to escape so that he can be reunited with her." (No, that's all wrong! He missed the young Miss Dormouse, and wanted to get home to her!!)

Now, how could anyone prefer him?!

And now, I have other celebrity crushes to share...

Lovely, lovely Doctor Brian Cox

Wonderful melted -chocolate-voiced Alan Rickman

Rather predictably, there's Johnny Depp (I often play on this when teaching..The second conditional is a favourite: If I met Johnny Depp I would kiss him...It always raises a smile!)

and a new one the silver fox, Spencer Kelly, from BBC "Click"

I don't do computers, but he makes the programme (which Mr D loves) bearable!!

So what about you, do you have any (past or present) celebrity crushes to admit to?