Forgotten Heartthrobs of the 80s and 90s - PART ONE

http://www.buzzfeed.com/whitneyjefferson/100-forgotten-heartthrobs-of-the-80s-and-90s

― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 02:25 (8 months ago) Permalink

Austin Peck based on the (mostly hideous) pics here, though I haven't a clue who he is.

Scanning ahead, the 2nd half of this poll will find me revealing one of my more guilty pleasure crushes from my younger days, but we will get to that later.

― this is the dream of avril and chad (jer.fairall), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 02:34 (8 months ago) Permalink

This is like, the most important poll ever.

― formerly EDB (ed.b), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 02:39 (8 months ago) Permalink

somebody has too big a Tiger Beat collection

― kizz my hairy irish azz (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 02:40 (8 months ago) Permalink

I know nothing of these heartthrobs, but voted Dalton James for being named after not just one, but two gangs of outlaws.

― Aimless, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 03:27 (8 months ago) Permalink

― Godzilla vs. Rodan Rodannadanna (The Yellow Kid), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 03:31 (8 months ago) Permalink

I can't help wondering how many of these guys are out of the closet now. Simple averages would require at least five of them and, given how show biz is in general, probably closer to ten or twelve.

― Aimless, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 03:45 (8 months ago) Permalink

chris wolf looks like a young chris gaines. voted faustino obv. might've voted #5 if it had in fact been johnny.

― balls, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 03:54 (8 months ago) Permalink

― Hungry4Ass, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 04:59 (8 months ago) Permalink

i also voted for grandmaster b

― Hungry4Ass, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 05:00 (8 months ago) Permalink

i find this guy refreshingly down to earth

― lag∞n, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 05:15 (8 months ago) Permalink

not just on earth but right next door

― Lamp, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 05:16 (8 months ago) Permalink

voted for dean cain for all those shirtless episodes of lois + clarke

― Lamp, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 05:17 (8 months ago) Permalink

its a tuff call but i declare this photo the gayest of them all

― lag∞n, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 05:23 (8 months ago) Permalink

i think i had that exact picture of erik von detten on my bedroom wall

― li'l sebastian, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 05:37 (8 months ago) Permalink

Brad Renfro has died?

― Tuomas, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 06:31 (8 months ago) Permalink

And didn't Doug Savant play they gay guy in Melrose Place? Which might explain "the gayest of them all" pic.

― Tuomas, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 06:33 (8 months ago) Permalink

Renfro OD'd a few years ago. :(

― Roz, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 06:34 (8 months ago) Permalink

That Bob Moffatt guy is a bit of alright! And still is, from the GISing Ive done.

― frances boredom coconut (Trayce), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 06:39 (8 months ago) Permalink

Oh wait, it seems I've mixed up Brand Renfro and Brad Dourif, who appears to still be alive. Still, it's sad to hear about Renfro too. :(

― Tuomas, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 06:41 (8 months ago) Permalink

That explains things... When I looked at that Teen Beat pic, I was like, "How did that kid grew up to be Wormtongue?".

― Tuomas, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 06:43 (8 months ago) Permalink

Like most people who were at a British university at the tail end of the 90s, I've seen Chesney Hawkes play live. He does a full live set of original material, followed by The One And Only, which he is legally obliged to mime. He then played Alright by Supergrass. It was kind of preposterous.

― Matt DC, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 08:44 (8 months ago) Permalink

I have never even heard of most of these. Exceptions being Jason Donovan, Dean Cain, Chesney, and the two Eurodance guys who I would never have thought of in this category.

― Matt DC, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 08:45 (8 months ago) Permalink

Yeah, I can't imagine that even the teen girls of the 90s would've been like, "DJ Bobo, he's so dreamy!". Dr. Alban at least looks sorta cute.

― Tuomas, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 08:58 (8 months ago) Permalink

mmm, Edward Furlong. I also had an inexplicable thing for Dieter Brummer, but so did every other girl of my age.

― ailsa, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 11:23 (8 months ago) Permalink

This list was definitely made by either a British or Australian person btw. A lot of these guys were never famous in the US. For instance I have no idea who Dieter Brummer is because we never got Australian soaps.

― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 11:40 (8 months ago) Permalink

Never got the Furlong love though my appreciation for him did grow a bit after he tried to liberate all the lobsters from a supermarket tank.

― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 11:41 (8 months ago) Permalink

wow @ DJ Bobo

― Ham Lushbaugh (Eric H.), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 12:12 (8 months ago) Permalink

Andrew Keegan or Jason Behr

― Ham Lushbaugh (Eric H.), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 12:12 (8 months ago) Permalink

the clothes, the hair. the 90s is a foreign land.

― tubular, mondo, gnabry (Merdeyeux), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 12:21 (8 months ago) Permalink

#5 ftw

― wtf where's my chapbook (DJP), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 13:42 (8 months ago) Permalink

lol yes! Poor Austin whoever that guy is.

― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 13:47 (8 months ago) Permalink

list is missing Devon Sawa

― Roz, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 16:20 (8 months ago) Permalink

voted #5

― stop swearing and start windmilling (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 16:38 (8 months ago) Permalink

because he is alive

― stop swearing and start windmilling (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 16:38 (8 months ago) Permalink

this is almost Robert Plant-level

― stop swearing and start windmilling (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 16:40 (8 months ago) Permalink

― A.R.R.Y. Kane (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 16:40 (8 months ago) Permalink

tucks to the left, just like Percy

xp

― stop swearing and start windmilling (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 16:41 (8 months ago) Permalink

aw Doug Savant was cute!

― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 16:42 (8 months ago) Permalink

Corin Nemec. End of conversation

I mean...come on

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 16:46 (8 months ago) Permalink

and don't forget

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 16:47 (8 months ago) Permalink

All of these are well before my time, and from shows I have never heard of? xp oh wait that's because they're Australian or w/e. So I'm just going to put this guy here:

― purveyor of generations (in orbit), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 16:51 (8 months ago) Permalink

Parker Lewis was awesome

― stop swearing and start windmilling (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 16:51 (8 months ago) Permalink

The crush I had on Ryan Lambert, it was physically painful. I thought I would die because he was a person on tv and I was just a person.

― purveyor of generations (in orbit), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 16:53 (8 months ago) Permalink

Yeah Laurel, it's more likely that they're after your time or foreign tbh.

I loved Corky Nemec. A lot. I vividly remember the "I know my first name is Steven" TV movie.

― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 16:54 (8 months ago) Permalink

Random stuff about the irl Steven kid - he was killed in a motorcycle accident the year that movie came out and his brother is the guy that murdered a woman and kids in Yosemite in the late 90s.

― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 16:56 (8 months ago) Permalink

Well I mean I'm only 36, I should know more heart-throbs from the 80s in theory! But I don't know hardly any of these.

― purveyor of generations (in orbit), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 17:01 (8 months ago) Permalink

xpost yeah that blew my mind when I found out about the stephen stayner/gary stayner connection -- what a messed up family, geez louise

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 17:01 (8 months ago) Permalink

I honestly maybe know like a 10th of these (part 1 and 2 combined)

we should start our own list of our ACTUAL teen hearthrobs and not some saddo buzzfeed old lady's version

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 17:02 (8 months ago) Permalink

they were awesome jeans, I miss them

― wtf where's my chapbook (DJP), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 18:27 (8 months ago) Permalink

so weird that Peter Andre is still a thing in the UK

http://2wongs.blogspot.co.uk/2011/04/mysterious-girl-cover-of-peter-andre.html

― kinder, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 18:29 (8 months ago) Permalink

oh no

why would they do that?!

― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 18:30 (8 months ago) Permalink

did he dress up as a voodoo priest for the video and chase a pale white girl around a building site?

― wtf where's my chapbook (DJP), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 18:31 (8 months ago) Permalink

noooooooooooo aggggh gross

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 18:32 (8 months ago) Permalink

(they wouldn't... it's this awesome duo who also did a bit on Lana del Rey that killed me live, although maybe you had to "be there" (pissed) because I heard it on the radio next day and it was less amazing)

― kinder, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 18:33 (8 months ago) Permalink

kinder: actually I think I was thinking of Danny Newman (not yet in a soap but I was probably only pretending to know who he was while everyone else was going on about how dreamy he was), but Paul Nicholls is definitely another name I couldn't remember from my class's later TV Hits dissections, yes...

By number of hours spent passing notes back and forth about him in my first year of secondary school, Edward Furlong is the clear winner here.

― still small voice of clam (a passing spacecadet), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 18:39 (8 months ago) Permalink

watched none of his shows, but went with Jason Behr for his ears and pecs.

― kizz my hairy irish azz (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 18:42 (8 months ago) Permalink

― Ham Lushbaugh (Eric H.), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 18:46 (8 months ago) Permalink

wait who is that

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 18:51 (8 months ago) Permalink

That would be Jason Behr's ears, but not his pecs.

― Ham Lushbaugh (Eric H.), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 19:36 (8 months ago) Permalink

oh right he's the boy from Dawson's Creek

he done got hotter

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 19:39 (8 months ago) Permalink

I read this thread title as Forgotten Headbands of the 80s.

― The specifics are these, which is those principles I described (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 19:41 (8 months ago) Permalink

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 19:45 (8 months ago) Permalink

oh right he's the boy from Dawson's Creek

no. Roswell?

― kizz my hairy irish azz (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 19:52 (8 months ago) Permalink

WHADDYA MEAN NO

Behr picked up a recurring role as the character Chris Wolfe in The WB's series Dawson's Creek. While filming the show in North Carolina, Jason read the script for a pilot called Roswell High — later shortened to Roswell — and felt an immediate affinity for the lead alien, Max Evans.

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 20:11 (8 months ago) Permalink

meh, recurring roles don't count

― kizz my hairy irish azz (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 20:36 (8 months ago) Permalink

*blows raspberry at you*

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 20:37 (8 months ago) Permalink

is Michael Pitt "from Dawson's Creek" too?

― kizz my hairy irish azz (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 20:53 (8 months ago) Permalink

yes wtf

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 20:54 (8 months ago) Permalink

anyway who died and made you arbiter of what tv shows I associate actors to? ;)

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 20:55 (8 months ago) Permalink

I think it was Ernest Borgnine

― kizz my hairy irish azz (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 21:01 (8 months ago) Permalink

lol

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 21:08 (8 months ago) Permalink

I totally think Michael Pitt = from Dawson's Creek.

Neighbours and Home & Away list need the guy who played Brad Willis and the guy who played Alan Fisher.

Seeing Dieter Brummer just reminds me how weird it is that Melissa George and Isla Fisher got to be proper famous-ish. And Guy Pearce, obv.

― ailsa, Wednesday, 19 September 2012 00:00 (8 months ago) Permalink

Isla Fisher especially. I couldn't stand her on H&A, and I was all D: when she became a thing (briefly) here

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 00:07 (8 months ago) Permalink

Isnt she only famous cos she's shacked up with Borat tho?

― frances boredom coconut (Trayce), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 00:45 (8 months ago) Permalink

Also yes this list is so not made by an Aust person because I srsly havent heard of 3/4 of these guys or shows, and also the list is missing

― frances boredom coconut (Trayce), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 00:47 (8 months ago) Permalink

Ah, Wheels. Sigh.

― frances boredom coconut (Trayce), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 00:47 (8 months ago) Permalink

<3 Marcus Graham <3

swoon

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 01:15 (8 months ago) Permalink

Corin Nemec. End of conversation

synchronize swatches!

― Broney, Pt. 1 (Pillbox), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 02:04 (8 months ago) Permalink

I have very fond memories of Parker Lewis. I wonder if it's anywhere near as good as it is in my head.

― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 02:06 (8 months ago) Permalink

man, come to think of it, the nascent FOX Sunday-night sitcom lineup was p classic overall: Simpsons, Married.. w/ Children, PLCL & Get a Life. I think Herman's Head might have been in there at some point as well.

― Broney, Pt. 1 (Pillbox), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 02:10 (8 months ago) Permalink

While the necklace and hat are atrocious, Nemec looks like he's aged pretty well overall.

― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 02:15 (8 months ago) Permalink

Sadly the same can't be said for some of the others cited as particularly dreamy

― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 02:16 (8 months ago) Permalink

Yeh Corin Nemec was in Stargate tv show a few years back iirc -- Mr Veg started getting mad at me bc I'd only watch the episodes/scenes he was in and then leave the room, lol

God, Edward Furlong rip yr hottness

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 02:51 (8 months ago) Permalink

Holy shit is that what Furlong looks like now!? D:

― frances boredom coconut (Trayce), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 03:17 (8 months ago) Permalink

...tbf he's still attractive so I feel a bit bad going "ugh he fat", but.. yeah.

― frances boredom coconut (Trayce), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 03:17 (8 months ago) Permalink

No it isn't the weight it is just . . . everything. NAGL.

― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 03:21 (8 months ago) Permalink

Yeah having GISed a bit more, he's def lost it. Smack and all, jesus thats just sad.

― frances boredom coconut (Trayce), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 06:01 (8 months ago) Permalink

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Saturday, 29 September 2012 00:01 (7 months ago) Permalink

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Sunday, 30 September 2012 00:01 (7 months ago) Permalink

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2225269/Terminator-2-star-Edward-Furlong-arrested-domestic-violence-spat-LAX.html

― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 19:42 (6 months ago) Permalink

yeesh

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 19:58 (6 months ago) Permalink

caution: uncontained throbbing may lead to tachycardia

― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 20:04 (6 months ago) Permalink

"Terminator 2" actor Edward Furlong has been charged with beating up his girlfriend ... the second time he's been accused of a domestic violence attack in less than a month ... TMZ has learned.

According to court docs obtained by TMZ, the alleged domestic dispute took place on November 21st ... the day before Thanksgiving. Furlong is accused of inflicting corporal injury resulting in a traumatic condition.

― Suggest Banlieue (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Tuesday, 18 December 2012 23:05 (5 months ago) Permalink

his downfall has been happening for so long it's almost not news anymore, lol

maybe he just likes to spread out his fuckedupness over a period of years

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 18 December 2012 23:08 (5 months ago) Permalink

seems like he's pretty much king of douchebag island now

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 18 December 2012 23:09 (5 months ago) Permalink

it's like a distant, even seedier echo of the continuing lohan adventure

― Suggest Banlieue (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Tuesday, 18 December 2012 23:13 (5 months ago) Permalink

it's more like a seedier version of that creepy X-Files dude and his creepy teenage wife.

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 18 December 2012 23:17 (5 months ago) Permalink

Doug Hutchison and Courtney Stodden.

(rinses brain with bleach)

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 18 December 2012 23:18 (5 months ago) Permalink