QotD: First Celebrity Crush
Who was your first celebrity crush?
Submitted by Glory.
This is just effing embarrassing.
When I reviewed this question this morning, my answer sprung immediately (and quite uncomfortably) to mind. I wasn't ready to divulge that...so I called my mother to see if I liked her answer any better. The conversation was priceless.
Me: Mom...who was my first celebrity crush, you recall?
Mom: *thinks*...begins humming a New Edition song.
Me: *remembers when New Edition came out, remembers I was in about seventh grade* Ronnie DeVoe? Nah...he was the first big one...but I had one pre-puberty. I know he wasn't the first.
Mom: oh they came out that late? That's right. *thinks again* What about the Reading Rainbow guy?
Me: *has painful images of Geordi LaForge and erupts in laughter* LAVAR BURTON? I NEVER HAD A CRUSH ON HIM!!!! Good GAWD! Reading Rainbow didn't come on until the other two were pre-school age Mom. I was already 12 or so by then. *Mom and I pee our pants laughing for nearly five minutes*
Mom: How in the hell do you expect me to remember this stuff? Oh wait...wait...no, I remember. Who was that guy? Blonde hair, you met him at the car show when you were eight? The guy from the Dukes of Hazzard?
Me: *sighs* Dammit. I knew it. *bangs head on desk* You sure it wasn't anyone else? Anyone?
Mom: Oh no baby. You were ALL over him. Him and Buck Rogers. But I think you liked Buck Rogers style more than anything else.
(*disclaimer* I was EIGHT. Get off my back. I had limited television access)
Photo courtesy of the NNDB site.
Comments
ooh la la.
;)
ohhh this is priceless.
I love the convo with your mom! hahah! The Reading Rainbow guy...lmao.
proce;ess, priceless.
I swear I don't remember John Schneider being that young, wow. Of course I was a little bit older than you when he was popular, I never liked him, I preferred Luke Duke. still no crush there.
I htink what turned me off about him was that he always looked like he was wearing lipstick. maybe he was.
*voiceover* Now we'll be back to complete that laugh ... and check in on those Duke boys, right after these messages! Yeeeeee Hawwwwww! */voiceover*
Oh, but he's so adorable!
The OTHER thing...my mother said I seemed to like Buck Rogers as well..but that more about his style. WTF??? Was I into space suits? I think I actually grew to like him because he was far nicer to me at the same car show that John was. If I recall...I think John actually sneezed on me.
Bastard.
@Jamie: don't make me sing the song. You know I still can. As well as do Roscoe's laugh. (Which I think could get me a bar pass on sixth street)
@ Lea: physically, yes - he was nice to look at. His character was dumb as sawdust though...
"YEEEEEEEEEEEEE-HAAAAAAW!"
*walks off mumbling "them dukes, them dukes!"*
Mm mm... them Dukes!
*lifts her hand off the paper from where she traced it and colors it into a turkey*
I can't laugh too much, though, 'cause I always liked the other one! :)
See? There was a good reason why I didn't answer this question. Plus I honestly don't remember mine. When I speak to my mom tomorrow morning I'll find out and let you know... privately.