From Diana Dors,Suzi Quattro to Rhianna. Or Elvis,David Essex and Jason Donovan most of us probably had a teenage crush on someone famous. Who was yours?
Mine was Kim Wilde. My room was festooned with posters of her fighting for space between the train pictures. I still like her now. She can come and dig over my garden anytime.
A personal memory of Kim Wilde…
I remember growing up in Sheffield in the early 1980s, on the cusp of puberty, I had two major crushes – the unattainable Kim Wilde off Top Of The Pops and a lovely girl by the name of Rebecca in my class.
After taking months to pluck up the courage I eventually got round to asking Rebecca out and was turned down – she said she already had a boyfriend, who I later learned from a friend was a chap called Hal who was in the year above us.
Time moved on and some years later I read in one of those celebrity magazines that Kim Wilde had got married and when I saw the wedding photos, I was amazed to find her new husband was Hal, the same guy who’d whisked Rebecca away from me when I was at school!
So not only had bloody Hal Fowler stolen my teenage school crush, he’d also gone on to marry my celebrity crush as well! I’ve never forgiven him….