The question
What is the harshest thing anyone has said to you?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
A fixed Guardian Q&A prompt asked directly across respondents and years.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
“I have it on very good authority he’s a complete cunt.”
The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 February 2026 source ↗
The usual racist shit.
Someone once saw me in a play and said that I was disgusting.
A review of Phèdre said – because I was quite large at the time – Toby Stephens’s Hippolytus needs to get on a StairMaster.
“You’re not in Busted any more.” I successfully auditioned to be in Busted and then a couple of days later I got a phone call to say that I was no longer needed as they were going to keep it as the three of them. But it ended up being OK.
A spirit of generosity.
Trying quite hard.
I don’t care that much about legacy. Within family I do, but not externally.
Infinity. I can’t get my head round it.
Football player of the year 4th XI 2002.
Not having my injuries: shoulders, knees and ankles. I did a lot of contact sports as a kid.
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