My most embarrassing secret crush

About a million years ago – actually, it was 2004, which only seems like a million years ago – I developed a wicked crush on Canadian Idol contestant Jacob Hoggard. A crush that has endured, I might add, to this day. I don’t know which is more embarrassing: admitting to following any incarnation of Canadian/American Idol with any sort of regularity (let alone having a crush on a finalist), or admitting to a crush on someone young enough to be my (ick!) son. Could I be more of a geek?

In the intervening years, I’ve fallen out of my Idol habit. I’ve watched fewer and fewer episodes of each season, but Taylor Hicks is just no Jacob Hoggard, yanno? The most satisfying celebrity crushes of late have come from watching Ozzy scaling palm trees and listening to Desmond’s delicious Scottish accent. (I’m obviously a sucker for a Scottish accent, because Ewan McGregor, especially in Moulin Rouge, can fry my bacon any day.)

And then, a couple of weeks ago, I just happened to flip on American Idol for something to watch while I was nursing Lucas and I tuned in just in time to see David Cook’s kick-ass rendition of that old cheeseball standard from the 80s, Lionel Ritchie’s Hello. And I was just intrigued enough to tune in the next week to see if it was a one-off or if he really was that cool, and was again blown away by his cover of Eleanor Rigby.

He’s delicious. Think he needs a sugar mama?

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