I'm in San Diego right now for Comic-Con (shameless "Comic-Con" tag alert!), preparing for four full days of Hobbit costumes, Community and Breaking Bad panels, and a whole lot of this:
It's gonna be great.
Where once "nerd" used to mean "smart, anti-social person who plays Dungeons & Dragons and drinks Mountain Dew and goes to Comic-Con for the comics," the term is now more closely associated with, "OMGIAMSUCHANERDBECAUSEILOVETWILIGHTSOMUCH." And in the past, whenever a "nerd" appeared on TV, they were usually played by an attractive person...who wore GLASSES and ILL-FITTING CLOTHES. The horror!
These people are considered "TV ugly," because they're actually quite attractive in the real world. Luckily, this hilarious, misplaced trope still exists — here are 10 actresses who are supposedly "TV ugly" (because we're told that no man would ever want them) but "real world hot."
Tina Fey, on 30 Rock:
Tina Fey, in real life:
America Ferrera, on Ugly Betty:
America Ferrera, in real life:
Judy Greer, on Arrested Development:
Judy Greer, in real life:
Tori Spelling, on Saved by the Bell:
Tori Spelling, in real life:
Lea Michele, on Glee:
Lea Michele, in real life:
Alyson Hannigan, on Buffy the Vampire Slayer:
Alyson Hannigan, in real life:
Kaitlin Olson, on It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia:
Kaitlin Olson, in real life:
Thesy Surface, on It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia:
Thesy Surface, in real life:
Aimee-Ffion Edwards, on Skins:
Aimee-Ffion Edwards, in real life:
Gwendoline Christie, on Game of Thrones:
Gwendoline Christie, in real life:
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those last three are really stretching the definition of “hot”.
I think the point is that they’re always calling Sweet Dee ugly on the show, but in real life, if she walked up to you at a bar, you’d be pretty happy with the situation.
The McPoyle sister floored me.
2/10 would not bang
The point of them calling her ugly on the show is that she’s not ugly.
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Are you kidding me? If all Six Feet and Three Inches of Gwendoline Christie walked up to me in a bar, I wouldn’t think twice about it. And neither would you.
Of course I would think twice about it. My first thought would be “This chick’s face is kind of homely” and my second thought would be “Jesus she could get too enthusiastic and break my dick off.” No thanks.
Tori Spelling? Danger must have written this…nope, surprisingly it’s Josh. Dare I sound a tad pervy and suggest that the nerdy daughter on Modern Family will grow to be a beautiful woman?
Yup, that’s pervy.
(You’re supposed to THINK things like that, not put them in writing!)
Not pervy, everyone is so sensitive. It’s called scouting.
It’s not pervy….I often see girls and think “She’s probably going to grow up to be pretty”….
And lets be honest, very few females are fundamentally ugly from day one….if they have money, and access to stylists and the ability to keep in shape, it’s really easy for them to turn out attractive…..and child actresses have all those benefits….
Which is why someone really needs to interview Gaby Hoffman and find out what the fuck happened there.
Tori Spelling looks like her head was left on a stove and spatula’d off. The woman is just awful.
‘Grow up to be?’ She already dresses like it. [25.media.tumblr.com]
Any UPROXX guys covering Comic-Con gonna be partaking in any other festivities? Superhero Pub Crawl, or any of the other thousand parties/events outside the Convention Center?
Maske and Kurp are there now. I’m sure they’ll be down for drinking festivities.
The McPoyle sister elicited a very loud “WHAT?” from me.
Bravo to the show’s makeup department on that one.
Holy hell, that one was amazing.
Indeed. Yowza.
yup, she made me guffaw in amazement.
Also, to borrow a kommenting device from Moose…Lea Michele…would bang.
What a lazy, half assed post.
I honestly thought the McPoyle girl was a real skinny guy until I saw that.
“Hot” means a lot of different things to a lot of different people I guess.
Yeah, the last three you might have well just post the same picture.
I especially feel like #10 was trolling.
Ah, I see the usual amount of thought / effort went into this list.
Comic-Con already taking its effect on the quality of the posts.
Did Warming Glow get taken over by The Bleacher Report?
Not denying that these women are really quite pretty but these so called “real-life” situations constitutes professional studio photos and television stills these days?
An actual real life nerdy girl can’t catch a break.
Good point.
I’ve always thought Judy Greer was hot, but Lea Michele is ugly in any medium.
Completely agree with Johnny. Lea Michele is hideous, regardless of a world with or without the Higgs Boson.
Thank god, somebody else sees her jacked up face for what it is.
I’m sorry, but in that locker room pic….she has a face?
a.) some of those are heavily air-brushed, photoshopped shoot pictures
b.) a few of them aren’t necessarily hot in real life, just different or without costumes.
“In a photo shoot” isn’t really “in real life”, but I would get with Judy Greer so hard no matter what.
It’s funny how voicing a hot, insane cartoon character can make someone look so much more attractive.
insane meaning DTF in this instance.
Splooge.
Sweet Dee is hardly hot.
What in the holy hell is this? The chick from Game of Thrones? The incest McPoyle? Most of these chicks look like I need a drink.
Yeah, Gwen Christie is hot: [www.palzoo.net]
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I think you meant “Real World Average” because the same “magic” that makes them tv ugly, also turns them hot in those examples provided. So yeah, pretty lazy.
I think a better headline would be “10 Actresses Who Are Mostly Reasonably Attractive But Are Occasionally Made To Play Ugly Characters on TV.”
Most of the list is OK, but Tori Spelling has always been ugly, and Lea Michelle looks like a toucan.
I agree that using very Photoshopped photos of some of the women sort of confuses the whole point of the post.
Man, what a bunch of whiners.
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Non-photoshopped Tina Fey – easy to find, still pretty.
Not to mention a more recent picture. That pin-up picture is like 8 years old.
thesy surface is pretty hot. most of the others..not so much.
what the what? There’s like 3 proper examples of what you are describing and a whole bunch of women who, if they were not on TV, would not be considered attractive by anybody.
I prefer Tori as Violet, to be honest.
I’d be more interested in a list that does the opposite. TV makes them look way hotter than they really are. The tough part would be narrowing it down from ‘all of them’ to ten.
That said, I’d have done Alyson Hannigan during Buffy and I’d still do her today.
Half of these are really stretching the definition of “hot”. Aimee-Ffion Edwards, for one, looks better in her “ugly” picture than in her “hot” picture, frankly not particularly hot in either picture.
Tori Spelling????? Yeesh …
Props to Josh for avoiding the more recent pictures of Tori Spelling where she looks like Admiral Ackbar’s sister.
Which is all of them.
IT’S A TRAP
When did Warming Glow become Buzzfeed? My goodness this was lazy and pointless.
Judy Greer is still a no….
Josh is lucky he has great commentors. You crazy bastards make life worth living.
This is surprising, a list on the internet concerning the relative attractiveness of famous women has appeared to provoke a great deal viscous discourse. I must analyse this bizarre phenomenon further!
Leah Michelle is as ugly as a cat’s ass…..
And you can’t really take air brushed pictures of some of these women and dub them the “real world”. Tina Fey looks like she looks on 30 Rock….she’s pretty. She’s pretty on the show and she’s pretty off it.
Mireille Enos from The Killing.
Gwendoline Christie is pretty fugly in “real life.”
Does Paris Geller from the Gilmore Girls still work?
I stopped at the slide where you have Tori Spelling as a hot person. Tori Spelling looks like a transvestite who can’t quite figure out how to hide a massive lantern jaw and and empty fish eyes
Also, Tina Fey’s entire “TV Ugly” bit is of her own doing, which is something that has always made 30 Rock slightly less funny IMO.
Are you paid to write? Because I would love a job where I just make up stuff and post pictures that do not relate to the real world at all or are years out of date. Get a clue man.
omg sketch
Tori, F’n Spelling? (channeling The Miz) Really…. Really? Really?
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THIS LIST HAS TORI SPELLING!!!! YOUR ARGUMENT IS INVALID!!!!!
Judy Greer is stunning in real life. One thing you can’t tell from her TV/movie appearances is how tall she is–she’s at least 5’10″ so she has a whole runway model thing going on.
So, Tori Spelling “in real life”…is Donna Martin?
I’ve never watched Glee; I always thought Lea Michele played a cheerleader or something. Anyway, Tori Spelling was attractive once upon a time, but not today. Nice list aside from that, though.
pretty shitty list, an the 2 pics of Alyson Hannigan are from TV (Buffy and How I met your Mother)
“real world” doesn’t count when the majority of these photos are from photo shoots, other TV or movie scenes, or red carpet events.
Other TV shows and airbrushed photo shoots don’t count as “in real life.”
By ‘Alyson Hannigan in Real Life’ you of course mean ‘…on another TV show’.
I’ve never got how on 30 rock all the guys act like Fey is just a CHUD of a woman. If your boss looked like that, you’d nail the shit out of her in the back copy room.
At this point, I would like to suggest that any list on this topic which does not include Jan Smithers from WKRP is a lie. Even if the show has been off the air for 30 years.
Playing a little fast and loose with the whole “real world hot”
I like how “real life” seems to include air brushing, makeup and great lighting.
Tina Fey, in real life
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The Glee girl: Why the hate? She’s hot on the show and off.
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OMG…Most of these pictures are not even real life. We still don’t know what these celebs look like when they aren’t fixed up by a stylist. We have to see what they look like without all the makeup in order to know if they pretty or ugly. I’m just saying.
So out of the 10 “in real life” pictures, 6 of them are from photo shoots where the actresses had a team of hair and makeup and lighting and wardrobe people to make them look like that “in real life.” 2 of them seem to be from either award or red carpet appearances (Ferrara & Greer). One of them is just a shot from a more-recent TV show where she’s playing a less-plain character than her previous show (Hannigan). Only one of them (Edwards) looks like it COULD be just a random photograph not attached to a shoot or publicity event.
This is the author’s definition of attractive in real life.
And he feels comfortable goofing on the “nerds” at Comic-Con.
This…might be all the proof needed that the internet needs to be monitored and controlled by smart people.
… love Judy Greer on Archer (and AD of course), and Tina Fey in everything.
You realize that all the “in real life” pictures you posted were all pictures of the actresses all done up for publicity shots and *not* what any of them look like in REAL life.
Tori Spelling was a pretty girl when she was young, but you posted pictures of her as a teenager and then one from Bev Hills 90210. I’m not going to look it up but that show was from the early 90s. She’s about 40 now and it’s not that she’s older, but that she’s had so much obvious plastic surgery that she kind of took away her prettiness. Now she just looks like a typical rich, middle aged LA gal. I wouldn’t mind Lea Michelle if she stopped dressing and posing like Mariah Carey when she’s not on Glee.
Thesy Surface, on It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia – ugh, holy shit
Thesy Surface, in real life – Holy shit…..
Has anyone mentioned that the ‘real life’ photos are anything but?
Hmmm? What’s that? Oh, EVERYBODY is STILL pointing that out?
tori spelling is hot in any world,galaxyor dimension.
Alyson Hannigan apparently is always on the set of How I Met Your Mother “in real life”
Thesy Surface HOLY CRAP! That’s a literally just stopped me in my tracks just now and of course the lovely Ms. Tina Fey has always been sexy in my opinion.
*That has- edit
Since when are airbrushed professionally shot photos “real life”?
I like how Alyson Hannigan “in real life” is literally a picture of her from How I Met Your Mother. Nothing says “in real life” like a picture from a different show.
Some of those “real life” pictures aren’t pictures taken from their real life n.n
Brienne is not a nerd! She’s got mad bro skills. Samwell=nerd, Arya=bādá$$ nerd