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What period or moment in your life brought you the most joy?

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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

Asked in 52 of the 131 consecutive instalments of The Guardian's The Q&A harvested on 2026-08-29.

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Brooke Shields
On a beach, watching my girls do cartwheels, with a Goombay Smash with a floater on top.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, February 2025 source ↗
Mary Tyler Moore
I think when we were doing The Mary Tyler Moore Show. That was the first time that I was able to, on a regular basis, be funny.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, May 2012 source ↗
Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen English interior designer and television personality
This is going to horribly upset my wife, my children and my grandchildren, but it was when I did The Greatest Snowman last year for Channel 4. Being let loose on an Austrian mountainside to build snow sculptures was my happy point, and who knew I’d find an icy G-spot at nearly 58.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 October 2022 source ↗
Jason Byrne Irish comedian
When I worked in an electrical warehouse in Dublin. I got £60 a week wiring plugs.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 November 2012 source ↗

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