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Wednesday, February 11, 2015

Confessions: My Celebrity Crushes

So I don't know about you but throughout my teenage years I went through quite a few crushes, both on boys I actually knew and talked to on a regular basis (of whom we do not speak, because hello this is the internet where information lives forever. And while I'm sure I was painfully obvious about my infatuation even in my attempt to play it cool, I am fairly certain they were also completely clueless and I'd like to keep it that way, kthx) and on celebrities who I of course never actually met in real life but I swear I had a serious connection with. Like for real.

These are the guys who stole my heart back in the day, and I would gaze at their picture in Teen Beat and get especially psyched when they were the feature with the pull-out poster in the middle. Come on, you know you did it too. 

 Jonathan Taylor Thomas


JTT is the first celebrity I can remember really having a crush on. I was in sixth grade and all of us girls would bring our magazines to school and giggle and blush and come up with scenarios in which we would meet, date and get married to him on a regular basis. I'm pretty sure I remember us writing letters to him and everything. This was legit, y'all. 

Joey Lawrence



Whoa! He actually really wasn't on my radar much when he was on Blossom, though I did think he was cute. When I was really crushin' hard was when he was on that show Brotherly Love. His brother Matthew is a cutie too, but there was just something about Joey. My BFF and I watched the show faithfully and we were SO SAD when it was cancelled! 

Mark Paul-Gosselaar



Did anyone not crush on Zach Morris at some point? He was the quintessential California surfer boy with the great blond hair, cute smile, and maybe a slightly overblown sense of self-confidence, but it totally worked for him. We all wanted to be Kelly Kapowski, and not just because she looked great in a mini-skirt. 

Devon Sawa


I first saw Devon Sawa (Sah-Wah? Swa?) in Wild America, in which you've got him and JTT in the same movie. Marketing GOLD. It doesn't get much better than that. The wispy blonde surfer cut, the deep blue eyes. It was all over and he was my new crush before the credits rolled. 

Freddie Prinze Jr. 



I first saw him in "She's All That", and while at first you think his character is kind of a jerk, he grows on you and by the end of the movie when he grows to love Laney and see her for what a great person she really is you're all "Awwww!" and you swoon. It doesn't hurt that he has great hair, great eyes, and an adorable smile. 

I know there were many more, but these are the ones that immediately came to mind. 

But when I met this guy, he blew all of these other guys out of the water: 

Adam and I in college


But more on our story tomorrow!

Who were your celebrity crushes back in the day?



Making Melissa

25 comments:

  1. Oh gosh - Zack Morris and Devon Sawa - LOVE!!! I can't wait to hear more about your love story! xo, Biana - BlovedBoston

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  2. Devin Sawa and JTT....swoooooooooooooooooooon!

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  3. OMG I forgot allllll about Devon!! How could I forget about Devon!!!

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  4. oh man. I did love me some Freddie Prinze Jr. He's still a babe today!

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  5. OH YES, JTT all the way...and loved me some Jared Leto too! Yea girl!

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  6. I really didn't crus on Joey L until much later, but I loved all of these other guys so hard! Also, Jonathan Jackson and Andrew Jackson!! You guys are so cute in your college pic *heart*

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  7. JTT and Devon Sawa, be still my teenage heart! Lol, I totally also wrote letters to JTT. For me, it was also Andrew Keegan and Taylor Hanson.

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  8. Devon Sawa was my guy! I used to watch Casper just to see him in the last couple minutes of the movie. Leonardo DiCaprio was my other main guy. What ever happened to Devon though?

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  9. OMG YES TO ALL OF THESE. I would have to say my first crush was Devon Sawa in Casper. Oh the simple life...

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  10. oh.my.lawd. JTT & Devon Sawa were my faves for sure!

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  11. The first picture I ever put on my wall was Fred Savage, followed soon by Mark Paul Gosselaar, although my real fav in Saved by the Bell was Lisa Turtle. I thought she was so pretty and Zach so stupid for not loving her instead. Haha.
    It's not so much about the physical anymore. Thank God for maturity.

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  12. Oh man. JTT was my everything back in the day! I had a poster of him on my wall. I also crushed on every single other guy you posted about but JTT was my main squeeze.

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  13. haha I had a crush on Freddie Prinze Jr. too... I saw him in a recent episode of Witches of East End and he was still pretty cute!

    Jessica
    the.pyreflies.org

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  14. So many memories! I loved JT as well and Freddie Prince and Gavin Rossdale!!

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  15. Okay I love all of this! Zach Morris was theeee man!
    www.amemoryofus.com

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  16. JTT definitely and omg.... Zach Hanson! HAHA, don't judge me ;)

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  17. Zach Morris never did it for me. Maybe because, back in the day, my celebrity crushes mostly focused on members of various hairbands. My walls were covered in pictures of them. And then in 1992, I saw School Ties and saw Matt Damon for the first time and that was basically it for me for celebrity crushes. I still have a huge crush on him, 23 years later. I'm nothing if not loyal.

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  18. I think my first celeb crush was Jonathon Taylor Thomas ha ha! I remember watching him in the Tim the Tool Man Taylor show :D

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  19. OH MY GOD Joey Lawerence's hair!!! I just can't. It's too much.

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  20. Freddie was totally my biggest crush back in the day. I also loved Atreyu from the Never Ending Story. Is that weird?

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  21. Oh man when I was younger JTT was my dream ... who knew he'd turn out to be so short haha and Freddie Prinze Jr is still a hottie!

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  22. All of those guys definitely made my celebrity crush line up! Devin Sawa was my ultimate dream guy!

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  23. this is amazing. i loved jonathan brandis - this is awesome! :)

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  24. Zack Morris and JTT!!! Hahahaha, I love this! Wow, this brought me back I loved the guys from NSync though. Oh my, Teen Beat! Hahahahaha Oh, I bought it too..with my babysitting money! This was great! -Jess

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