Key Insights

• Celebrity Crushes: Many men in Hollywood, including KJ Apa and Cole Sprouse, have openly expressed their crush on Jennifer Aniston.
• Admiration Despite Ignorance: KJ Apa admitted to having a crush on Aniston without having seen an episode of Friends.
• Past Crushes: Other celebrities like Jake Gyllenhaal and Ashton Kutcher have also shared their long-standing admiration for Aniston.
• Memorable Encounters: Ashton Kutcher once asked for permission from Brad Pitt to date Aniston, highlighting the star’s lasting impact.

37. We all know that age-old question celebs get asked: Who is their celebrity crush? Well, it turns out Aniston is the answer for quite a few men in Hollywood. Riverdale‘s two male leads KJ Apa and Cole Sprouse copped to nursing crushes on her. 

Apa admitted to Cosmopolitan that he has a crush on Aniston even though he had never seen an episode of Friends, while Sprouse reminisced on working with her on the sitcom (as he and twin brother Dylan played the character Ross’ son, Ben).

“I had a really, really hard time working with [Jennifer] because I was so in love with her,” he told the New York Post. “I was infatuated. I was speechless. I’d get all bubbly and forget my lines and completely blank. It was so difficult.”

38. But those young Hollywood hunks need to get in line, as other famous men revealed their feelings for Aniston long before them.

Jake Gyllenhaal, who starred opposite Aniston in The Good Girl, got a little flustered while talking about his crush on the star. “I will say, have had, had a crush on her for years and working with her was not easy, you know,” he told People. “She was, it was…I was, umm…yeah, that’s all I’m going to say. It was, err, it was lovely. You know, it wasn’t hard.”

39. And Ashton Kutcher also revealed he once made a bet in high school, when he was 17 and the star was his screen-saver, that he would go on a date with her. And he ended up getting the chance, back when she was still married to Pitt.

“Five years later I actually met her and I asked Brad Pitt’s permission to ask his wife out on a date. He was so cool and said, ‘You go for it,’ so I asked her and she turned me down,” Kutcher said on The Graham Norton Show.