It's no secret that I'm a total 90s child and love all things 90s. Of the three and a bit decades I've experienced so far, the "culture" of the 90s is by far my favourite. I've already written about my 90s fashion fails, my favourite 90s board games, my 90s singing career, and one of my favourite songs from the 90s.
So when I saw a post from Babs at
Patchwork Cactus on
facebook, with a picture from the classic 90s movie
Empire Records, I just knew I had the basis for my next IBOT post. And for at least one other post in a few weeks time. Yesterday I asked on my
facebook page (click on the above to go to facebook and add your own if you so wish) for people's favourite 90s crushes, so that I could make sure there wasn't someone I was missing that should really be included in my list of...
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| Collage of 26 of the 90s Heartthrobs from your comments on facebook! |
My Top 5 90s Crushes
5. Dean Cain
Yes you read that right. Dean Cain, he of the fabulous
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman. This show first started when I was in year 5, and from the very first moment I laid eyes on Clark Kent I was smitten. I thought he was the most handsome man my 11 year old self had ever seen! In fact, I could go as far as to say that I think he was my first proper celebrity crush.
4. Scott Wolf
Now anyone that was a teenager in the 90s knows about
Party of Five. That bastion of emo television about a family of 5 siblings whose parents die and leave them orphans. Scott Wolf played Bailey and I was so in lust with him. I watched that show for Scott and only Scott. He was like a young Tom Cruise (someone who I also fell in love with after seeing him in
Top Gun the first time I saw it in 1996) and I couldn't get enough of him. I remember he was the cover guy on an issue of Dolly magazine, and I insisted on buying two copies so that I could cut out the pictures of him from my wall and not have to choose between pictures that were on opposite sides of the same page!
3. Joshua Jackson
Now we all know JJ from
Dawson's Creek (Team Pacey ALL THE WAY! Stupid Joey!) but I was in love with him way before then. I first laid eyes on the lush Josh when he was in the movie
Champions, more commonly known these days as
Mighty Ducks. Putting aside how awesome that movie is, I used to rewind and re-watch the scenes with close-ups of his face, and go to bed dreaming about what it would be like to kiss him.
2. JTT
The best thing about JTT, otherwise known as
Jonathan Taylor Thomas, was that he was on a show that my Mum loved watch, so I didn't have to beg to be allowed to watch it, or have to sneak in to the spare room and watch it when I thought Mum wouldn't know. He was on a family-friend show and it was more than fine for me to be able to sit there and drool over JTT in the presence of my mother. JTT had it all, he was handsome and funny and I had an entire wall dedicated to him in my bedroom at one stage. And then he voiced young Simba in
The Lion King and the package was complete!
1. Leonardo DiCaprio
Without a doubt, Leo would have to be my number 1 crush of the 90s. When
Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet came out in 1996 I saw it at the movies about 4 times. My best-friend Kylie and I were utterly obsessed. The first thing I ever looked up on the internet, ever, was a
Romeo + Juliet/Leonardo DiCaprio fan website. Leo didn't just get one wall in my bedroom, he got them all, with one being specially dedicated to
R+J. After seeing him in
R+J I then went on to find, hire and watch every other movie he had ever been in, and to this day I still love me a little Leo.
Special Mentions:
Special mentions must be made for some of my other 90s crushes who just didn't quite make the list -
Keanu Reeves in
Speed;
Joseph Gordon-Levitt in
3rd Rock &
10 Things I Hate About You;
Heath Ledger in anything but particularly
Two Hands and
10 Things;
Tom Cruise in
Top Gun (I was a latecomer) and then
Jerry Maguire;
Joey from
New Kids on the Block;
George Clooney in
ER;
Jonathan Brandis from
Seaquest DSV;
Jeremy Jackson, aka Hobie from
Baywatch.
Now it's your turn, your biggest crush from the 90s. Go!
(You can comment below in the comments section, or go direct to the post on facebook from the embedded post at the top of this page)
Linking up with Essentially Jess for IBOT, who I know was quite partial to a few 90s heart-throbs!
Comments
Although I did fall out of love with Dean after reading a not very nice article about him at the dentist one time.
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