15 Unconventional TV Crushes
Remember the days when you would turn on the TV and your TV crush would be on and you would go to bed dreaming that Chad Michael Murray's Lucas Scott chose you instead of Brooke Davis or Peyton Sawyer. Today I will be talking about some of our unsung heroes of our dreams and fantasies. In Hollywood, you have a picture-perfect portrait of who you're supposed to be, what you're supposed to look like. I mean I totally get it. Appeal does sell and all and it is quite entertaining watching a show where the main character is so attractive you wonder why they ever have any issues to begin with.
However, I think it's better to root for the underdog or when you have that epiphany that the nerdy kid in the back is actually one of the hottest people you have ever seen in your entire life, don't you think? Whether the normal looking guy is given more screen time or he does something that shows sympathy or there is just something about a man that makes him more attractive than just looks. You know how a guy would categorize a woman by not calling her fat but saying she has a really great personality? The epiphanies over straight up hotness is my motto.
15 Lee Norris aka Minkus aka Mouth
Remember the adorable nerd that everyone loved to hate on ABC's TGIF show Boy Meets World… WAAAY back in the 90's? If you guessed "*gasp**finger point* Minkus!" you've guessed correctly! Norris played all around smart, pain in the you know what and rival to Topanga from 1993-2000. Since the days of Boy Meets World's unfortunate but necessary series finale, we were able to enjoy the rambunctious smart guy on Boy Meets World turn into, One Tree Hill's resident kind-hearted A/V kid and best friend to Lucas Scott, Mouth. Where he was no longer his adorable pre-adolescent self yet an awkward teen who not only managed to capture the hearts of Tree Hill residents but also those at home wishing they could ditch her loser of a boyfriend and find themselves their own Marvin McFadden.
14 Dylan O'Brien aka First Name Unknown
Now before you shoot, I have a perfectly good reason as to why Dylan O'Brien is on this list? Ready? Okay, soooo, in the beginning of MTV's Teen Wolf which premiered during the Twilight Saga and True Blood days everyone's eyes were on the asthmatic latino with the uneven jaw. Scott McCall got even hotter when he sped up puberty and didn't need his inhaler and turned into a supernatural werewolf. Pretty hot right? So then where did his puny little friend go? Unfortunately in the shadow of his best friend's metamorphosis. It wasn't until the show's second or even third season where Dylan became more of the apple of everyone's eye with his smart a$$ sense ohumorur, unconditional love and loyalty towards everyone around him and the fact that he's actually quite intelligent. Plus you just wanna put him in your pocket and pull him out when you need to smile.
13 Adam Driver aka Girls, Girls, Girls
Do we remember seeing this man on HBO's Girls and thinking… my, he… is… tall. The 6 foot two and a half inch San Diego native starred in 49 episodes of the cultural phenomenon about a group of four millennial women living in New York City attempting to… live. As per Hollywood Standards Driver is not much of what the concept of HOT would be. Most may either disagree or think he's hot because despite the fact or… the simple fact that he's Star Wars' Kylo Ren is another factor. The This Is Where I Leave You actor not only stands at panty dropping 6'2½" but he also has strong facial features such as a strong jaw, full lips, adorable floppy ears, I'm sure a lot of women agree when they say they'd love to see behind those hazel eyes.
12 Jaleel White aka Mr. Did I Do That?
Throw me in the brig for this one, I don't care. During my childhood, I always wondered why the Winslow's would even let this menace to society anywhere near his home. As a cop, I always wondered why Carl never put him behind bars. Where were Urkle's parents and why did they let him provide slapstick comedy to us viewers at home. It infuriated me, and then Steve Urkel had the nerve to turn into… Stephan. See… now, this is what made Jaleel White hot as hell to me. It wasn't the fact that when you take away the dorky glasses (which are ironically fashionable now), the high pitched nasally voice, and his slouched waddle you got a sexy black man who could rock a white suit like nobodies business. It was the fact that even though Steve loved Laura with all his heart, he created a clone of himself so that she could be happy. Would my falsies come undone if I started crying right now?
11 Jack Black aka Tenacious Daddy
Jack Black is the all-around macho funny man with really great taste in music. When the Tenacious D star started making waves in mainstream media, all of us loved his eclectic humor and cheeky dialogue. I mean we all loved School of Rock and seeing him as a dad of two with wife Tania Haden Black, we see the Kung Fu Panda star in a more sensitive light as a dad. Honestly, the moment you realized Jack Black was hot was probably at a different point in time. Maybe School of Rock was your epiphany, but I think that seeing him with his children being more than just a grown man doing young boy humor skits in his many… MANY TV show appearances. But seeing him out and about with his family just makes me all warm and fuzzy on the inside.
10 Djimon Hounsou aka Big, Black, and Beautiful
Hounsou is in many words beautiful. The bald head, the soft features, and salt and peppered beard are questionable as to why I would even put him on this list. However cute he is on the outside, his soft features are enticing as well as intimidating. As the voice of 2010's Black Panther and appearances in popular projects such as Furious 7, Guardians of the Galaxy, The Legend of Tarzan and TV show Wayward Pines, Djimon Hounsou can be seen everywhere from the small screen to the big screen. He's an acquired taste, I must admit, which is also probably why I am biased. But you can't deny his perfectly curved cupid's bow and furrowed brow that highlights his long curly lashes that no man ever deserves.
9 Matt Smith aka The Doctor
As the 11th doctor in BBC's ever so popular Doctor Who, Matt Smith to most might rate a… "MEH" on the hot or not scale. However, the growing popularity of the hit show has worked in his favor. When you first see Smith you think, "where have I seen him before?" and when you realized that you haven't seen him in anything, you begin to wonder why he doesn't resemble one of the cute doctors we see on American television or the Harry Potter franchise. Though he does resemble a bit of Frankenstein's monster, his hazel eyes and perfectly contoured cheeks compliment his English accent to absolute perfection. Plus it helps that he is apart of a major UK phenomenon that everyone knows and loves and he's also a Scorpio loyalty and passion are in the stars with this one!
8 Jason Segel AKA Marshmellow
Segel has been a part of the television world since the late 1990's. With a one season stint of Freaks and Geeks, Jason played the lovable doof who, when he loved his significant other, he really loved them. You see that in Segel's Marshall Erikson on CBS' How I Met Your Mother. He was the tall guy who didn't have the abs and wasn't the one to have a chizzled jaw and a perfectly sculpted rear end. It was really the fact that he was just a soft-hearted goofball who loved his Lilly pad as much as she loved him. If not more. He's unfortunately been typecast as the Gentle Giant which in retrospect has actually worked in his favor as you wouldn't normally dream about Jason when there is a world with Brad Pitt and Idris Elba in it. But a sensitive man with all his teeth and he's tall? Count me in.
7 Seth Rogen aka Loveable Doof
Seth Rogen is in the same boat as Jason Segel. Though they appear in almost every movie together, you can't mistake Rogen's husky laughter for anyone else's. The ex Freaks and Geeks star has also been typecast as being the loveable doofus who also smokes way too much for his own good. The loveable Canuck also has a grin that is just an adorable homage to the introverts who don't fit the physical norm of the stereotypical teen hottie or the apple of every fangirl's eye. Because why would he? He's only a nice person who has very curly hair and is funny and has very subtle dimples that you only notice if you look hard enough. Did I mention he was funny? Funny is good… very good.
6 Michael Cera aka Daddy Juno
Michael Cera has been in the public eye since his role in Arrested Development as George-Michael Bluth became a staple in pop culture. He one-uped himself as the soft-spoken father to be in 2007's Juno, playing along Ellen Page as they think about their options wanting to find the perfect parents to give their child too. To many, in Scott Pilgrim vs The World, Cera becomes a hottie as a staple in pop culture as he defeats all of Ramona's evil exes in order to be with her. I believe that it was his role in Superbad alongside Jonah Hill that really put him in the running as a new hottie not only for the small screen on the Netflix rebooted Arrested Development but as a stand-alone hottie whose movies are enjoyable and his soft-spoken, awkward nature has become something of a major turn on.
5 Conan O'Brien aka Baby Blues and Beards
Am I the only one who loved his beard??? As the host of Conan on TBS, you never really think of some old white guy who just seems like he's always spazzing out in unbelievable rage is actually a hottie. Note the picture below where he has grown, what we here on earth call, the ultimate panty dropper… a full beard. Yes, of course, his humor and wit are what make him successful and an easy to talk to host on Conan but… the beard. The same can go for fellow older white guy Jimmy Kimmel, the salt and pepper beard is in and I love it.
As for Conan however, the beard perfectly compliments his thin lips and baby blue eyes. and the contrast in red between his hair and his beard is just everything.
4 Tom Felton aka Slytherin or Team Flash?
As the antagonist in the Harry Potter franchise, Tom Felton has been seen as the lanky, spoiled, rich kid who needed to get a grip. He became a TV hottie… to me at least when he appeared in The CW's The Flash starring alongside Grant Gustin and Danielle Panabaker. We were first introduced to Felton's character Julien at the start of the show's third season as Barry's partner who… ironically hated Barry and having him in his space. We later find out that he has been obsessed with finding ironically, the philosopher's stone and later becoming a part of Team Flash. Seeing him in a new and softer light makes it easier to feel sympathy for not only Felton's character but Tom Felton himself. I believe he's redeemed himself on Team Flash and paid for his sins on Team Voldemort.
3 Peter Dinklage aka Jersey Boy
Peter Dinklage, at the start of his career, has always been the guy that everyone saw on all the shows they watched but never knew his name. That is until this randomly epic TV show on HBO that's based on random books gained so much popularity and has yet to lose momentum. You would never know that the New Jersey native was indeed a New Jersey native just by watching him on Game Of Thrones. He gained popularity as the witty and drunken Tyrion Lannister. His hottie status came in when he became more about being the dwarf of the family to being someone who isn't afraid to kill the woman he loved for betraying him and slapping the crap out of Malfoy-I mean Joffrey.
2 Simon Cowell aka Mr. Mean
Resident a-hole Simon Cowell is actually pretty hot if you really look at him. As one of the powerful faces in reality competition shows, Simon Cowell is known as one of the most aggressively judgmental judges on primetime television. As one of the original hosts of American Idol the world hated Cowell and his harsh statements made about a contestant and has probably scared a lot of people. Remember the days where Simon was just this guy who could not sing yet told everyone they were the worst pieces of garbage ever? Well, look at the man in the photo above. With a strong chest, kind smile and a butt chin… waering these mysterious shades. If that doesn't put Cowell in the hottie pile… I don't know what will. Below you can enjoy a brilliantly white smile and a… you guessed it, salt and pepper beard.
1 Gordon Ramsay aka Mr. Softy
Gordan Ramsey makes Simon Cowell look like frickin Santa Claus. His critiques on food are harsh but his critiques on chefs are even harder. He is widely seen as one of the toughest critiques out there and viewers tune into his various television shows not only to watch tasty food being prepared, just to see him chew someone out. No pun intended. However, it's his softness towards children that make him the hottie he deserves to be. Just check out this video of Ramsay being nice to kids versus adults who should know better. I'm not crying. You're crying. Plus, blonde is such a good look on him! It really is!! And also, his English accent isn't anything I'd complain about either.
