My Unhealthy Obsession With Ashley Tisdale
So I'm in Target today, holding Ashley Tisdale's solo album in my hands. Part of me is saying, "I need to write about her! She's so real, so honest" while the other half of me is saying, "C'mon, Daly, get a grip. She's 22. This is an extremely unhealthy obsession. What's the matter with you? This is kind of like your thing for Charlene Tilton back in the '80s!" To which the other half of me countered, "He liked Charlene Tilton?" and the other other half of me answered back, "Oh yeah, he had a full-on Charlene Tilton thing. You don't remember that? But that's not the worst of it. Remember his crush on Betty White?" To which both halves of me said, "Ewwww."
No music today. Instead, in the matter of full disclosure, here are 10 unlikely celebrities (real and imaginary) on which I've had a strange crush:
10. Tennis player Carling Bassett
9. The Fairy Godmother from Shrek 2
8. All of the Golden Girls except for Estelle Getty
7. Dallas star Charlene Tilton
6. Jessica Rabbit
5. She-Hulk
4. Natalie Merchant
3. Belinda Carlisle (chubby version)
2. Shirley MacLaine in Terms of Endearment
1. Ashley Tisdale
Sean Daly is the pop music critic for the St. Petersburg Times. His CD collection -- from Journey to Dylan, Prince to U2, Public Enemy to Stan Getz -- is much bigger and better than yours.
She-Hulk? Haha, oh mercy.
That being said, I had a crush on Rogue from X-men: the Animated Series. Not from the crap X-men movies. So keep up the unhealthy obsession!
Posted by: Al | August 24, 2007 at 04:38 PM
Let's see Basset has to be 40, her oldest kid 20,21? Soooo this Tisdale girl is 21. OK. So if Alstott played for the Bandits would he still be "a jerk"
Posted by: George | August 25, 2007 at 12:00 AM
Here's my list of totally illogical crushes
6. Chris Evert (especially nowadays)
5. Lily Tomlin playing Ernestine
4. Emme (plus size model)
3. Cat Osterman (softball pitcher)
2. Jennifer Hudson
1. Ellen DeGeneres
Posted by: lockbull | August 25, 2007 at 10:54 PM