Stars Dating Electricians

Get Your Sparks Plugged: Electricians Are The New Dude Of Choice

Posted by: Olivia Allin Filed in: guys
3:50PM, Monday October 26th 2009

Turns out Pamela Anderson isn’t the only star dating an electrician. British pop singer Leona Lewis has been getting loads of flack for staying with her boyfriend of seven years, Lou Al-Chamaa, also a master of all things electric. She’s pissed that everyone’s heckling her. “It does make me angry,” she said. “Because he’s a great person. And it doesn’t matter what you do in life, what your job is, where you come from. For people to think that you should leave someone because, all of a sudden, you’re a singer and you have opportunities. I feel very sorry for them.” Leona’s sparky (which is apparently slang for electrician) also happens to be hawt, which sweetens the deal. [People]

I suppose if you’re going to date a normal dude, electricians are the way to go since they’re often good-looking, they wear sexy hardhats and tool belts, and they can rewire your pad. Plus, they’re probably pretty smart and mechanically minded, and—unlike every guy I’ve met this year—they’re probably still employed! As a bonus, you can also make all sorts of sexual innuendos about how they “turn you on” when they’re “roto-splitting your cables” and “fishing their wires” into your “closed cavities.” I tend to have fantasies about the gas guy as well, for some reason. Which fix-it guy do you fantasize about?

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GreenAura
wrote on October 26 2009 @ 03:03 pm: [report]

Hmm, well my hubby used to do tile and framing. I guess you could say he grouted all my crevices and nailed his 2 x 4 into my door frame.

Jenn27549
wrote on October 26 2009 @ 03:04 pm: [report]

I am married to an autobody guy, and that works for me! I also got a little flack from my friends b/c I have a master’s degree and he never went to college…and, well, works on cars. But he’s got more talent in his left pinky than most people do in their whole body, and he’s hella smart, just not “on paper.”

Clementine
wrote on October 26 2009 @ 03:17 pm: [report]

My dad, brother, and two uncles are electricians and I think the sexual innuendos you’ve come up with will send me to therapy.

bethlynn00
wrote on October 26 2009 @ 03:28 pm: [report]

I have fantasies about all fix-it guys, but I am definitely more prone to auto-mechanics, having one around could come in handy on a regular basis. Then there was this one time a really hot cable guy came to fix my service, too bad it was at 8 in the morning and I was in my ratty robe and head scarf, I think I scared him, but oh was he hot in my dreams that night!

hannahsguy
wrote on October 26 2009 @ 05:42 pm: [report]

Good for her! It’s nice to see famous people actually not drink their own kool-aid.

canadiancutie
wrote on October 26 2009 @ 10:53 pm: [report]

I LOVE those blue-collar boys. Yum. So sexy, good bodies, and down-to-earth. No self-important machismo with these guys. They’re far less likely to be asshats. Yes, electricians (and tradesmen in general), imo, the way to go! (Gives CanadianCutie stamp of approval)

canadiancutie
wrote on October 26 2009 @ 10:56 pm: [report]

Personal story: dated and dumped an engineer earlier this year (he was the biggest ditz ever, even by his own admission, so the “paper” means nothing to me if you’ve got no common sense). Now I’m dating a guy who does renovations by day and plays live shows at night, and I’m sooo much happier. I think I’m going to marry this guy. So yes, I would say I’m definitely converted to the “blue” side indefinitely.

hannahsguy
wrote on October 26 2009 @ 11:05 pm: [report]

Glad to see girls actually interested in down to earth dudes. Must be a new cultural thing…you know…what a guy earns or what he does doesn’t matter…as long as love exists.
Wow…when I was dating (and don’t ask me when that was) girls were all about your degree and how much money you made. It took a degree from West Point, a Masters from Texas A&M (hold the jokes plz) and a 6-figure salary to find a girl. Man, how times have changed…for the better!

Secret Story Time
wrote on October 27 2009 @ 02:34 am: [report]

Have a licensed electrician check your shorts!

Remember that bumber sticker?

Secretia

TotallyRidiculous
wrote on October 27 2009 @ 08:08 am: [report]

My boyfriend is an electrician and he is the big four: hot, sweet, funny, smart. My friends get this look like I’m settling when I tell them what he does but most people just don’t know anything about it. He makes more money than anyone else I know my age (and probably more than most of my liberal-arts degree toting friends ever will), and it’s not easy to become an electrician. It’s a five year program for commercial electricians, and it’s not always easy to get in.
Plus he has that sexy fix-it, hard working man vibe, which I seriously dig. Sigh.

_jsw_
wrote on October 27 2009 @ 08:20 am: [report]

My grandfather was an electrician, and while I don’t feel comfortable judging his sex appeal, he was an idol of mine, and I think of him whenever I’m wiring my house.

I agree that, while degrees are nice, common sense and day-to-day know-how are sexier.

bogart4017
wrote on October 27 2009 @ 02:29 pm: [report]

Damn i blew it! I trained for 5 years in Electronics Technology before i changed fields in the early 1980’s. Now we’re hip?? To think i was only, what, thirty years too early?

_jsw_
wrote on October 27 2009 @ 02:41 pm: [report]

@bogart4017: Since “claret is nice” is an anagram for “electricians”, perhaps dyslexic women might be attracted to sommeliers. By any chance, is that the field you chose?

Of course, “rectal is nice” is another such anagram, so I wouldn’t read too much into it. However, “clit ace risen” might very well apply.

canadiancutie
wrote on October 28 2009 @ 07:59 am: [report]

hannahsguy, do you mean it took you a degree from West Point, a Masters from Texas A&M (hold the jokes plz) and a 6-figure salary to find a girl…. who looks like a supermodel? Be HONEST. My experience, men are just as shallow in not moreso than women are, just in different ways.

majicksand
wrote on October 30 2009 @ 05:55 pm: [report]

My cousin recently divorced her husband of 10 years because he was “too blue-collar”. I asked if she meant the guy who had been a faithful and loving husband and father for a decade while he started his own successful auto customization business, completely remodelled their home and yard, spent equal time taking care of home and children, and checked in on her grandmother every time he was in town on business. He also graciously accepted her need to own half a dozen designer handbags, spend 2 hours a day on her hair, and get a boob job.

In return she had an affair with some guy at her office, who had just walked out on his wife and 3 kids BTW, because he looks great in a suit and tie. When her husband found out, she left him and her kids, one of whom is severely disabled.

Yeah, she’s a republican.