The question
What disappointment has stayed with you longest?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
This exact question recurs in The Guardian's institutional Q&A pool.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Forest Green Rovers, my football team, getting relegated.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 December 2025 source ↗
Some of my choices were mistakes, so I’d have to say myself.
Realising I was never going to achieve the grades to become a vet.
That all the cliches about people in the music industry are true.
The movies I made that didn't work.
Catching Covid. I don’t think any of us know what we’re messing with still to this day.
I get trolled on a daily basis so it probably involved my teeth, but that was until I learned to love my teeth.
Last summer with my boyfriend Richie. We had no plans – it was just wonderful.
I’m going to confess I haven’t finished The Climate Book by Greta Thunberg.
I’ve got no kids, but I’d like us to leave a planet for everyone’s children.
Being misrepresented by a Sun journalist 12 years ago.
Robert Peston, Clare Balding, Jesse Jackson, George H. W. Bush, Sadiq Khan, Caroline Lucas
Search the directory for somebody in particular.