what famous person did you form an attachment to when you were younger

shoelaceface

for me, it was John Suchet, itv news reader!! i have no idea why but i idolised that man when i was about two or three and would turn off my cartoons and turn on the news to watch him.... i used to talk about him like he was my best friend that i knew with years....

oh the innocence!!

anyway... that just popped into my head!!

did anyone else have these strange attachments or am i alone lol

Dinter

I heard a lot of young people had "strange attachments" with Gary Glitter and Jonathan King.

Must have been their charisma.

WindSock

Bruce Springsteen. I wrote him a letter when I was 5.

whiskeyman

Tony Hart

chin_grin

shoelaceface wrote: »

for me, it was John Suchet, itv news reader!! i have no idea why but i idolised that man when i was about two or three and would turn off my cartoons and turn on the news to watch him.... i used to talk about him like he was my best friend that i knew with years....

oh the innocence!!

anyway... that just popped into my head!!

did anyone else have these strange attachments or am i alone lol

The Transformers all of them.
Gordon the gopher.
Zig and Zag.
Gary Glitter.
Michael Jackson.
Etch a Sketch.
Those tubes when you turn them either way the little widget in them went "eeeeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwaaaaaaaaaaaoooooooooooo".
Andy Peters.
Philip Schofield.
Dextah Fletchah (Gamesmastah)
The Gamesmaster. (Sir Patrick Moore)
That Scottish Fella that did Gamesmastah for a while. (Dominic Diamond I think his name was...)
The Princess out of the Mario cartoon.....


..........what? Don't judge me.

EDIT: +1 for Tony Hart and Bod.

WindSock

whiskeyman wrote: »

Tony Hart

Oh yes. Tony Hart was the Grandfather I never had

He once did a bit where he made his name out of body parts. Toe-Knee Heart. Genius.

getz

DONALD DUCK mind you i have always been quackers

Pighead

Richard Whiteley of Countdown. Every evening when Pighead returned from another tough day at the school coleface Whiteley would be there with his big cheesy inviting smile and his big cheesy uninviting puns. We miss you Richie.

whiskeyman

WindSock wrote: »

Oh yes. Tony Hart was the Grandfather I never had

He once did a bit where he made his name out of body parts. Toe-Knee Heart. Genius.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7643847.stm

read this a week or so ago


Still, great to see him attending openings and giving talks.

chin_grin

WindSock wrote: »

Oh yes. Tony Hart was the Grandfather I never had

He once did a bit where he made his name out of body parts. Toe-Knee Heart. Genius.

http://peateargriffin.ytmnd.com/

Ruu_Old

Roland Rat.

Ginny

I idolised Freddie Mercury when I was younger.

Prof.Badass

YORE MA!

she's famous round these parts for being a MASSIVE SLUT!

Karl Hungus

Arnold Schwarzenegger

When I was a youngin, pretty much all I watched were his movies, over and over and over again. I still have a 12" talking terminator figure here that I got for my birthday many years back, he's behind me on a shelf. His batteries are long dead, but he used to say "Hasta la vista, baby" and "I'll be back" as well as make various gunshot sounds.

AnonoBoy

Charles J. Haughey

Zig and Zag.

and2

AXL ROSE
and SLASH

dodgyme

`sally o'brien

because of the way she used to look at me.

Curlypinkie

Charlie Chaplin and Madonna

Oh, I know I'm weird.

Kiera

Matt Goss. I loved him sooooo much

Lissoy

BA Baracus

Burial

Jackie Healy Rae

SEXY MAN!!!

Burial

Seriously though, James Bond and Roy Keane.

stovelid

Do horses count? Black Beauty, if so.

Always wept when that nag disappeared over the hill at the end.

dodgyme

stovelid wrote: »

Do horses count? Black Beauty,.

Black beauty was always on as my mother prepared dinner so I hated it as I was starving and reminds me of waiting for dinner. I was so hunger I could eat a ...well you know

Feck now the bloody music from it is in my head for the day - thanks!

Turd Ferguson

Pat Sharpe cos he was king of the mullets!

shoelaceface

Burial wrote: »

Jackie Healy Rae

SEXY MAN!!!

i think him and his son are the funniest pair in ireland.. and they dont intend on being funny!!

i'd say their house is great craic!

shoelaceface

stovelid wrote: »

Do horses count? Black Beauty, if so.

Always wept when that nag disappeared over the hill at the end.

lol!!

i still think mine is the worst.. a middle aged news reader!

jim o doom

Karl Hungus wrote: »

Arnold Schwarzenegger

When I was a youngin, pretty much all I watched were his movies, over and over and over again. I still have a 12" talking terminator figure here that I got for my birthday many years back, he's behind me on a shelf. His batteries are long dead, but he used to say "Hasta la vista, baby" and "I'll be back" as well as make various gunshot sounds.

Yep, me too dude (the actor not the toy) - pretty sure I still have a terminator endoskeleton & bike from the t2 toy range. Gotta love how they released "toys" for kids for an 18's movie eh? "Let off some steam bennet" - and the best quote he did, from total recal "Consider this a divorce *bang*" heh heh

jebuz

Ian Walker - former Spurs keeper, lovely hair.

Bret Hart - The excellence of execution, I wanted to be the kid that got his glasses, but I settled for a similar pair from pound city.

Burial

Anyone remember Terminator 2 chess? That ruled!

Fratton Fred

Jenny Agutter. Mainly because she took her clothes off.

Cormic

Douglas Adams. He was such a part of my teenage years. I was gutted when he died.

Nalz

Denis Irwin

Legend

Clare Bear

All of the Live & Kicking presenters.

shenanigans1982

jebuz wrote: »

Ian Walker - former Spurs keeper, lovely hair.

Bret Hart - The excellence of execution, I wanted to be the kid that got his glasses, but I settled for a similar pair from pound city.

Pound City....I had to make do with ones I got free in rice krispies.

As for me it was Ray Houghton.

Sharpshooter

John Wayne
Bret Hart

mountainyman

remeber her, she was a sort of black Kelly Brook (when Kelly was fresh)

4zn76tysfajdxp

Mr Bean.

Not Rowan Atkinson, Mr Bean. The mute. Our imaginary conversations were rather one-sided.

ejmaztec

Linda Lovelace

Karl Hungus

jim o doom wrote: »

Gotta love how they released "toys" for kids for an 18's movie eh?

Nah, t'was 15's.

Speaking of releasing toys from an 18's movie though, anyone remember the Aliens toys? Those were pretty cool.

dreamer_ire

My sis had Spurs and Arsenal team posters in her room (I know a touch odd lol) and on the nights I slept in there I would give them pep talks and team talks... I'd imagine the talk before the match, the half time talk (always with different socre lines) and interviews after the match. I was only 6 lol

dr.bollocko

Norman Whiteside, Jack Kerouac and Jimmy Page.

Fratton Fred

dreamer_ire wrote: »

My sis had Spurs and Arsenal team posters in her room (I know a touch odd lol) and on the nights I slept in there I would give them pep talks and team talks... I'd imagine the talk before the match, the half time talk (always with different socre lines) and interviews after the match. I was only 6 lol

you slept with your sister? what part of Leitrim are you from?

_blank_

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Charles J. Haughey

yep, me too

tony1kenobi

Batman.

Unpossible

Mr. T (loved his TV show)

Postman Pat

Christopher Reeve as Superman

That guy who played spiderman/peter parker in those old spiderman movies

Burial

Mr. T had an album!

Many weeks, I laughed!

Ross_Mahon

Me and Bruce Willis go way back, Watching Die Hard every Christmas Eve.

Jigsaw

I can remember having boyhood crushes on both Kim Wilde and Belinda Carlisle. I'd imagine neither of them have aged well though. Belinda Carlisle I always imagined to be a right dirty biatch who would take it all ways imagineable.

http://www.leninimports.com/kim_wilde_gallery_main.jpg

http://www.notas.com/fotos/Musica/Belinda_Carlisle/belinda_carlisle.jpg

Burial

Tia and Tamara on Sister,Sister. I'd always watch that after school!

Chopper

Lee Majors as The Fall Guy

Tom Selleck as "Magnum, P.I."

Myself and a friend used to play 'Dukes of Hazard' - I was always the blond one (Bo not Daisy!)

I always wanted to drive KITT but now that I think of it I never pretended to be David Hasselhoff.