What celebrity did you used to go crazy over, but now find uninteresting or lame?

I've never gone crazy over a celebrity.

Leo had a hold on me up until like 2016.

Susan Dey

Charo

Loni Anderson

Isabella Sandford

Isabella

Joseph Gordon Love Hewitt is a good one. Mysterious Skin was such a heart-rending movie.

Hewitt auditioned to be in Shortbus and was willing to have sex on screen, but that dumb cunt of a director didn't cast him.

Lawrence Welk

R7 is from the Lost Generation.

Jared Leto

Why the "like" before 2016, R2?

Kate McKinnon- She was quite funny on The Big Gay Sketch Show and for the first few seasons she was on SNL. Now, I think she's an overrated hack who still gets by because she knows the right people (e.g her college pal Greta Gerwig).

Jake Gaylenhaal.

Streisand - lost interest after reading her book.

I wouldn’t say crazy, but I was so impressed with Timothee C when I first saw him (CMBYN and Ladybird). So disappointed to see him with any Kardashian that’s it’s lowered my opinion of him.

R10 I feel like he was still fun and interesting in the early 2010s. I know he’s a divisive actor on here but I thought he was terrific in Django Unchained, The Great Gatsby, and The Wolf of Wall Street. Those performances were also kinda the last time I was really impressed with his acting. That was a fun time to follow Leo, plus the Oscar memes about him were funny. Now he’s a joke for his dating life and has become increasingly boring and sad.

Oscar Isaac

r4 It's Isabel Sanford, dimwit

r5 r6 Hewitt??

I'm mocking R3, you fucking dimwit R17.

r19 You've embarrassed yourself.

No, you fool, R20. Can you read?

Harrison Ford. Always plays the same character, regardless if it's a George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, or Tom Clancy movie. He's not that good looking really, either.

R22=Calista Flockhart.

Lillian Gish

DDL, not crazy over just admired. I didn't care for his last movie, Phantom Thread, it seemed less than his capability. I wish he had gone out with something more worthy of his talent.

Daniel Day-Lewis quit acting because he has early onset dementia. I know his wife's assistant.

Brad Pitt

All of them, eventually.

R26 Please tell me you're shitting me. If not, that is horrific news, he was the best.

R18, it's a joke, sweety.

Most of them. I used to be attracted to the mystery of stars and actors especially. But now it's oversaturated with reality types who used to be more fringe celebrities and everyone being on social media it's like the magic has worn off of most them. Everyone has an opinion, you see where they live and what they do and they have become uninteresting for the most part.

Gwen Stefani. Teenage me thought she was the coolest woman in the world. But current Gwen makes me embarrassed for OG Gwen. She’s so cheesy, with bad taste in music, fashion and men (Blake Shelton, barf). Not to mention the stretched puffy Instagram face.

I don’t think she was ever who I thought she was.

Hugh Jackman

Joseph Gordon got married and then vanished.

Andrew Garfield in the early-mid 2010s. But I lost interest on him when he started with his "I'm gay but not gay" idiocy. Just come out, dude!!

R32 She was always this person. It was definitely Tony Kanal that was the brains behind the band.

Viola Davis-Her arrogant attitude in recent years has turned me off.

Good one, OP. I had a big crush on him a few years ago, but he turned cheesy/boring.

I mean, I’d still let him sit on my face…but I’m not rushing to see any of his new projects.

Johnny Depp

Michael Jackson

Another for the Gwen pile-on. She had so many of us fooled, thinking she was a cool rock chick.

No Doubt was one of favorite bands in middle school. My opinion of them dulled considerably by college when they put out crap like “Hella Good.”

When I saw the No Doubt reunion announced for this year’s Coachella, my thought was, “Gross.”

Another vote for Johnny Depp.

For very different reasons, Bill Cosby.

Madonna is edging towards this territory, but I'll always like her early stuff.

Morrissey has turned into a turd.

James Franco

Social media has REALLY done a number on how most of us view celebrities. We just know WAY too much about them now in a way we hadn't before. So many of them have been exposed as being what they used to be rumored as for years, and now you get to witness it on a constant basis.

Eddie Razaz

I like knowing about celebrities. They reveal what they want us to know.

[quote]Hewitt auditioned to be in Shortbus and was willing to have sex on screen, but that dumb cunt of a director didn't cast him.

I think you mean Joseph Gordon-Levitt.

I remember that and was so pissed at John Cameron Mitchell, who rejected him because he wanted a film of unknowns.

Yeah, look how that movie bombed!

JGL even sent him a jack-off video as an audition, which JCM has kept for himself, lucky bastard.

Jon Bon Jovi, he looks like a grandma now

Ewan McGregor. He looks ridiculous with his new wife.

Michael Stipe. REM started to suck, he cut his hair, moved to NY and became more pretentious than ever. And I grew up.

Dolly Parton - she has oversaturated social media the past few years.

I’m sorry to report that Madonna owns this thread. She was incredibly inventive and reflected her times for so long. Now she’s a sad old lady in her bedroom making home videos, dating beneath her and getting weird plastic surgery.

R37 Viola Davis is a good one.

Armie Hammer

I completely agree with R31 and R43 -- as an eldergay the movie stars and celebrities from other fields had something that has appeared to vanish. Is it all about social media? I think so. There is no longer a thrill when seeing or running into someone these days. (There may be exceptions.) There was even a New York Times article -- Style section of course -- that talked about the experiences of average Joes who had serendipitous meetings with celebrities and then spent time with them, like skiing with Springsteen or drinking with Neeson.

That said, I had an inexplicable crush on Pat Sullivan, the quarterback for Auburn who won the Heisman in 1971. I look at pictures now and wonder what I was thinking. Not exactly a looker.

Agree about Kate McKinnon. Once they started assuming she could play anything and she was doing her terrible and unfunny impersonations of Giuliani and others, I checked out.

Matt Damon. What a fraud he turned out to be.

Jake Gyllenhaal for sure and Johnny Depp and James Franco too.

R37 You mean it wasn't the snot bubbles in scenes that required me to cry?

I'll never stop crushing on Jakey G! NEVER!

Jeff Stryker

Justin Timberlake.

I thought Elizabeth Olsen showed a lot of potential in Martha Marcy May Marlene but I lost all interest in her career when she turned to Marvel.

r62 She was fantastic in Wind River also

Diana Ross used to do it for me. Saw her in concert three times--fabulous. I still had a frisson of pleasure when she announced the Thank You album, which is pretty good.

I like Sigourney pre-Avatar.

I grew tired of Joan Rivers later in life when she started dropping the f-bomb all the time, though I still thought she was the funniest person around until the day she died.

I used to love Dionne Warwick until she was exposed as an unpleasant personality.

[quote]Matt Damon. What a fraud he turned out to be.

My choice, too.

Back in 1997 I had a little shrine to him in my bedroom with pics from this book.

Over the years I could barely stand to look at him.

R66 She was? She’s delightful on Twitter.

Madonna

R62 This is a good one. Elizabeth showed so much promise early in her career. Clearly her agents convinced her to go for the $$ roles (and who could blame them) and I stopped paying attention. She’s wasted in that Avengers drek. I will say, she got my attention again in last year’s Love and Death on HBO. My hope is now that she’s a gazillionaire courtesy of Marvel, she’ll go back to the offbeat, indie projects that made her interesting in the first place.

R70, I hate to say this, but she was superb in WandaVision and easily the best actress in the cast overall.

That is sort of weird OP I have just the opposite feelings about Joseph Gordon Levitt, on 3rd Rock From the Sun, Joseph Gordon Levitt's sole acting ability seemed to be swinging his long hair around. I find him so much more interesting now. I would love to see him play Jared Kushner in something.

"Ken"

Ron Eldard. So hot in his younger years and then turned into Gerard Depardieu. Now it seems like he's out of the game completely.

Ken Wahl. Another hot one who disappeared. I know he fucked himself up falling down a flight of stairs, but still would love to see him.

Gerard Butler. Was crazy for him until he started churning out shitty movies "___ Has Fallen. " The only thing that has fallen is his career.

Lady Gaga owns this thread.

Joe Manganiello. Thought he was hot until he started carrying his Chihuahua everywhere. That just gives me the creeps.

She’s another Gwen Stefani R75. She seemed so offbeat and cool, turns out all she cares about is makeup, plastic surgery and ass kissing the Hollywood elite.

I totally bought into the hype around Matthew McConaughey when he first came on the scene in the 90s. He wasn't even my type but he just oozed sex appeal. Then as he got more famous he got up his own ass and I lost interest. Not into potheads either.

One of my biggest sports crushes was German footballer Michael Ballack, but I felt totally disgusted by him when, last year it was revealed he was dating (don't know if they're still dating as of now) a 20-something chick who was previously girlfriend of Ballack's now deceased son.

Back in the 90s, I lusted after Bill Hemmer on CNN..but then he went to Fox, so..no thanks.

I had a crush on Anderson Cooper in his World News Now days

I also used to like Michael Ballack...

I’m ashamed to say I had a major hard-on for Mel Gibson back in the day. Now for obvious reasons he literally turns my stomach.

r83, me too

He was hot as hell in movies like Gallipoli....now he's ugly on the inside and the outside

Don't apologize for crushing on Mel Gibson. He was hot as hell for a while. I remember a movie he was in where he played a convict. Mrs. Soffel. Damn. And yes, Gallipoli. Lethal Weapon series, Mad Max. HYeah.Year of Living Dangerously, Maverick. To be honest, I was kind of over him by the time he made Braveheart. He looked so ridiculous with that long hair and he was obviously too old to play that part. At least I thought he was.

Gerard Butler is lucky he had success with those bullshit action movies because he really didn't have much of a career before that. He was on the brink of stardom and then started to fizzle.But he was hot for a minute. he looks old now.Old and worn out.

I used to really enjoy Julianna Margulies. But all the on set anecdotes of her behaving like a tyrant, coupled with the recent racist remarks (said so flippantly), have left a terrible taste in my mouth. I find her to be basically unwatchable now.

Kevin Spacey.

It truly infuriates me to know I will never rewatch any of those enjoyable movies because a fucking grown man couldn't keep his hands to himself.

Jennifer Lopez.

Many years ago, a friend of mine in Houston waited on her and her entourage at a very nice restaurant. She demanded that the place's very starstruck manager go to the store and get the kind of bottled water she liked, because she wasn't doing that tap bullshit and they didn't carry the kind she liked. She and her people needled the hell out of my friend until the manager got back from the store with it, and then complained when it wasn't served cold, even though he of course brought glasses of ice with it.

She ran my friend ragged, and laughed the whole time. Bitched and called him names at every opportunity. We were both servers at that point, and I'd gone to his restaurant and asked for him at times (hey, if you're gonna tip someone, might as well keep it in the family), so I know he was damned good at what he did. I saw how he treated all his tables. He loved his job and did his best at all times.

She and her friends stiffed him. Zero tip. After camping out at that table, in that private room that was given just to her and nobody else, for 3 hours. Just because she could.

I never liked her after that. "I'm just Jenny from the block" my ass.

I actually had a crush on Jim Caviezel when he was in stuff like The Thin Red Line. I remember thinking that he was hot and a good actor. Now he's a QAnon Trumpster freak. Blech.

R88 she didn’t tip? Oh hell no. Me and that hoe woulda been fighting and I love me some JLo.

What names did she call him?

I have never gone crazy over any celebrity. I used to like Bill Maher. Now, I find him insufferable in a way I didn't feel before. I stopped watching him months ago.

Emily Blunt. Liked her until saw the interview clip where she fatshamed her Chillies waitress - calling her enormous and saying she must abusing her free meals. Like why say that?

r88 you and your friend should watch this hilarious J. Lo video

Only in New York. That guy is like “who da fuck are you” He probably speaks Spanish for the most part and never leaves the south Bronx.

O Nvmd I read the comments and he is Guyanese which makes even more sense why he doesn’t know who the fuck she is. I love how she played it cool even though it was probably burning her he didn’t know. New Yorkers are so dam cool.

I'll echo those who say all of them, now that social media has taken away the illusion that anybody is somehow "special." Famous people are just as fucked up as anybody else. The whole idea of celebrity is archaic at this point.

Remember, social media is still in its infancy.

Just like radio and (silent) movies were still in their infancy 100 years ago (c. 1920s) and then went on to change the course of human history, for better or worse, by the end of the 20th century.

Makes you wonder how much more social media will influence the world for the rest of this century.

I used to think Russell Crowe was all that until he abused hotel staff and then got fat. Karma.

Most of them. Especially since COVID for some reason. I came to the conclusion that most of these celebs are overpaid, full-of-themselves, whiney princes and princesses. I'm not impressed with any sports celebs or actors. Musicians, and some singers are different since there is actual talent involved and most are very underpaid unless they are a ancient Rolling Stone, Dave Grohl, Streisand, etc. I've met several actors that could have made great impressions but there are only a handful that stand out as being sincerely nice, good people.

[quote]I've met several actors that could have made great impressions but there are only a handful that stand out as being sincerely nice, good people.

Many actors are insular, self-absorbed, narcissistic, histrionic, pretentious, etc.

I used to hang with a film/theater crowd in the 2000s.

Needless to say, I don't have actor friends anymore.

I only know plenty of people who are actors who are none of the things you describe, R100.

Mabe it's the people you attract, R100.

R98, agree about Russell Crowe

Lissen, I feel really bad that your friend went through that, but I am not surprised. I never liked JLo. She always struck me as a bitch. Selfish, arrogant, and mean. A bully.

R104 = Ben Affleck

Madonna. I became a fan when I was 11 and I found out this song called "Like a Prayer" was by Madonna. That was in 1997. I liked her through Rebel Heart (even if I ignored Hard Candy and Confessions). But Madame X was where she really lost me. And now that I am reading about her being 3 hours late to her own shows, I really don't get her. And now she's releasing NFTs of bugs crawling out of her vagina. It's revolting. Her most devoted "stans" who blame her unpopularity among the younger generation as "sexism" need to wake the fuck up.

Tom Hanks. Loved everything up to Scully but after that it was the same old same old.

Leo was another favorite of mine but I haven’t liked him in anything post Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

The whole Madonna thing is just sad.

I swooned like a love struck Frau over Chris Noth in his early years on Law and Order. But by the time he showed up on Sex and the City, I was like blecchh.

Michael Hutchence of INXS in the early 90s. I lost interest after he and Helena broke up, but have read all the books on him since his death.

The documentary Mystify: Michael Hutchence showed how sad his last years really were.

I used to love Kathy Griffin. I watched her reality show, all of her specials, and even saw her live a few times. She gradually became less funny over time as her act devolved into stories about lame reality stars and her mother. Later, her attacks on Andy Cohen just made her seem super bitter and her reaction to the Trump stunt fallout revealed the depths of her narcissism. I can't stand her now.

R110, I thought it was so pathetic for Kathy to cry and make a scene at that press conference.

I agree on Kathy Griffin.

Margaret Cho is another comedian who I was a big fan of. In the past few years, I have found her insufferable especially the beef she had with Tilda Swinton and the Marvel movies.

Katharine Hepburn. I was obsessed with her when I was younger. But now she seems rather mannered in many of her screen appearances. That and she was quite full of herself and she even admitted as much. She sounded like she would be exhausting to be around.

Mark Ruffalo-Used to like to him, but his sanctimonious attitude irritates me.

R114, against nuclear energy and he's a NIMBY. He sucks!