idol

“The teen idol angle was orchestrated to some degree,” Gray said during a Q&A event in 2012, according to Comic Book Resources.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

"I cared deeply for him, I loved him, he was my idol and my friend," he said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026

But he was famous way before politics—Pulido is a Tejano star, a 1990s teen idol, a Tejano Backstreet Boy before there were the Backstreet Boys.

From Slate ● Sep. 28, 2026

Five years ago, Frodin was chosen as a tennis-playing body double for the actress cast as her childhood idol in the Oscar-nominated film 'King Richard'.

From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026

Stevie Wonder, my childhood idol, was showing up to play at campaign events, joking and calling me by my first name as if we’d known each other forever.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

Drawing on his idols, and even featuring some of them like Suggs, he says he is "here to make rap sophisticated again".

From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2026

Those movies are my comfort food, and those women were my idols as a kid.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

His influences and idols were eclectic; he was an English rock fanatic and a salsa obsessive; he loved everything from Hollywood westerns and gory B-pictures to European art-house cinema.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

But Eatherly was so extreme, he made even his idols blush.

From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026

She looked a little bit like one of my idols, Shawn Johnson, who had won the 2006 US Junior National All-Around Championship with a score that was higher than all her senior-level competitors.

From "Courage to Soar" by Simone Biles