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Handsome men.

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Daddima Sun 25-Sept-16 17:10:36

As an elderly person, I think Cary Grant, Robert Mitchum, and Gregory Peck would be described as handsome, but can't get enthusiastic about any of today's " stars".
Brad Pitt does nothing for me, ditto Johnny Depp .
Thoughts?

Maggiemaybe Sun 25-Sept-16 23:30:22

Oh, Paul Newman, and oh, Steve McQueen - those eyes!!

Aiden Turner these days , and though I'm not usually attracted to serial killers, I'll make an exception for Jamie Dornan.

Maggiemaybe Sun 25-Sept-16 23:32:20

I do quite like Benedict, though - I think I'm attracted to Sherlock's fine mind wink

Judthepud2 Sun 25-Sept-16 23:37:01

Having just been watching 'Poldark', Aiden Turner is my idea of gorgeous...and he is Irish which is an added bonus. Can't think of anyone else currently in the public eye who appeals to me.

Wobbly I have no idea what you look like but having agreed I can be Tinkerbell in the GN panto, you can have a special hug from me!

numberplease Sun 25-Sept-16 23:42:28

Cornel Wilde from days gone by, nowadays Aiden Turner is the stuff that dreams are made of!

Linsco56 Sun 25-Sept-16 23:50:10

How could I have forgotten Robert Redford ?

Shanma Mon 26-Sept-16 00:12:05

Hello. I am new here but couldn't resist posting on this one. George Clooney for me please, and if fancying someone a bit more characterful and rugged, how about Nicholas cage? Very good actor too I think

Wobblybits Mon 26-Sept-16 06:08:54

JTP, you may never know how much that hug means atm, I could do with a little fairy dust from Tinkerbell.

xxx

CarrieTaylor Mon 26-Sept-16 07:07:19

I used to adore George Peppard. Rafael Nadal can leave his tennis shoes under my bed any time!

Falconbird Mon 26-Sept-16 07:57:04

I used to work with a Terence Stamp look alike. (Us grans will remember him) I was 18 he was 19. He was a nice chap but toooo handsome for me. I was above average pretty at that age but I didn't have film star looks. He used to ask me out but I thought he was having a laugh and never turned up. Years later when I was a young married women we met by chance and he told me he had been waiting for me on every occasion when he had asked me out.

Don't regret it all. My dh and I were about the same on the nice looking spectrum and that suited me. Really handsome men can be off putting. I do quite like Monty Don who is ageing well and Russell Brand.

BBbevan Mon 26-Sept-16 08:34:45

In my early teens I 'loved' Gil Favor from Rawhide, Played by Eric Fleming.

Badenkate Mon 26-Sept-16 08:40:20

Me too BBbevan. Unfortunately he died tragically when quite young.

pollyperkins Mon 26-Sept-16 09:32:28

Wobbly you look very jolly and cuddly. A big improvement on some of these so called pin ups!

Judthepud2 Mon 26-Sept-16 09:36:07

Scattering a bit of fairy dust in your direction Wobbly. Hope it works for you!

Wobblybits Mon 26-Sept-16 09:54:00

Polly, I can do "cuddly" smile

One o the ladies I worked with was complaining that she was too fat, I said she was not even cuddly, yet alone fat, she didn't know if that was a compliment or not.

Tegan Mon 26-Sept-16 10:32:45

Cillian Murphy (sigh). Agree about Johnny Depp in that when he was a happily married man I adored him but don't like what he's become. A lot of Game of Thrones actors are very attractive...one of the older ones being IanGlenn

Elenkalubleton Mon 26-Sept-16 10:37:09

Sean Connery Frank Sinatra

Ducks1 Mon 26-Sept-16 10:41:32

Ralph Fiennes for me ?

Cosafina Mon 26-Sept-16 10:42:14

Used to think Johnny Depp was God's gift till he got the greasy hair and became a wife beater.
Used NOT to like George Clooney (too plastic looking) but since he started to go grey he's even yummier than Cary Grant smile

Greyduster Mon 26-Sept-16 10:42:40

Actually, the late Alan Rickman always managed to stir something in me (not easy these days smile), and I would certainly have elbowed Meryl Streep out of the way to get into Robert Redford's - erm - 'plane in Out of Africa!

muswellblue Mon 26-Sept-16 10:46:14

It is all in the eyes I think - Paul Newman, Steve McQueen. Slightly sardonic and worldly wise. MMmmm!

a1icia Mon 26-Sept-16 10:46:18

Hugh Jackman. And Hugh Jackman. Not only VERY easy on the eye, easiest I've ever seen I think, on and off screeen, but a decent person to boot.

Lilyflower Mon 26-Sept-16 10:48:57

I really do not like this muscly beefcake look that is so popular now. Six packs do not do it for me. I prefer a chap to look intelligent and beautiful rather than manly.

HannahLoisLuke Mon 26-Sept-16 10:49:36

I don't usually go for conventionally handsome men except for George Clooney, Elvis as a young man, Rufus Sewell, sob, is he completely out now?
I like more battered types like James Nesbitt,Philip Glenister, and oddly I find David Dimbleby strangely attractive.

Seb2015 Mon 26-Sept-16 10:51:46

Rufus Sewell - can't add anything else wink

Mamagborg Mon 26-Sept-16 10:54:21

Have to agree with the older stars.
I think I was born in the wrong era. I've always had a massive crush on Cary Grant and Paul Newman, however I do like my men a bit quirky these days and with the exceptions of Aiden Turner and Pierce Brosnan, am not madly keen on any of them. Brad Pitt, George Clooney etc don't do it for me and Richard Gere makes my skin crawl. I think the problem is we know too much about them and so there is no mystique surrounding them. That enigmatic mystery man is hard to find on screen these days.