SECRET LOVES

Love is in the air as Marion McMullen looks at celebrity crushes

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BILLIE EILISH’S mother joked this week that she once considered taking her daughter to therapy over her obsession with Justin Bieber. The Grammy winner, left, says her bedroom walls were adorned with Bieber posters and she would cry over his music videos. They met for the first time at Coachella festival last year and were pictured

sharing a hug.

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SINGER Adele is a self-confessed Spice Girls superfan and went to see them at the final concert date at Wembley last year. She later met her idols backstage and told them: “I couldn’t have got here without you five BRITISH legends! I love you!”

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ACTOR Ashton Kutcher, right, revealed his crush on Friends star Jennifer Aniston on the Graham Norton Show. He said her photo was his screensaver when he was 17 and he bet his friends

$1,000 he would take her er on a date one day. He finally met and asked her out – with the blessing of her then-husband Brad

Pitt and she turned him down.

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JENNIFER ANISTON, left, has said her own first c crush was for American singer Shaun Cassidy, the half-brother of pop star David C Cassidy. He had h hits in the 1970s wit with Da Doo Ron R Ron, That’s Rock N R Roll and Hey Deanie and also appeared in the American TV s series The Hardy B Boys Mysteries.

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FORMER Dawson Creeks’s star

Katie Holmes used to have posters of Tom Cruise on her bedroom walls when she was 15. She later married the Top

Gun star in 2006 and they had a daughter called Suri before divorcing in 2012.

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THE Mask and Bruce Almighty actor Jim Carrey was the childhood crush of American singer Ariana Grande. She posted on Instagram when she appeared on his show Kidding “there aren’t words”. She added: “Nothing is crazier than getting to work with and spend time with someone whom you’ve idolized and adored since before you could speak.”

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DAME HELEN MIRREN has admitted she has a soft spot for her Fast & Furious 9 co-star Vin Diesel, right. She said: “He has a presence on the screen. A combination of his voice, his physique, his character, it’s a very powerful presence.”

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FUNNYWOMAN Rebel Wilson once described Magic Mike star Channing Tatum as “pure man steak luscious” and admitted she had a crush on him. They appeared together in a comedy skit for the 2013 MTV Movie

Awards.

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ACTOR John Krasinski has said he had a crush on his actress wife Emily Blunt before they ever met and claims he had watched her in the movie The Devil Wears Prada 75 times before they were introduced.

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LADY BIRD and Little Women film director Greta Gerwig said she wanted to marry Titanic star Leonardo DiCaprio when she was 13 and used to kiss his photo every night before she went to bed.