Kim Wilde: If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change?

The question

If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change?

Originally asked

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

Repeated verbatim in The Guardian's long-running Saturday Q&A; two publisher-hosted examples establish recurrence.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Kim Wilde

English pop singer

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

There are several boyfriends I wish our paths had not crossed.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 August 2019 source ↗

Others on this question

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Esther Rantzen

Maybe I should have agreed to take the job of controller of BBC One when Bill Cotton offered it to me. I do feel a wimp; I would have been the first woman in the job.What do you consider your greatest achievement? I don’t really claim credit, I hope, for helping to launch Childline and the Silver Line and Silver Stories. It is an achievement that they all exist, but that is down to their amazing teams.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 February 2024 source ↗

Niamh Cusack Irish actress

I would have gone to my singing lessons at Guildhall.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 October 2021 source ↗

Tim Rice English lyricist and author

I would definitely change the way one or two relationships ended.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 March 2017 source ↗

Naga Munchetty

All the times I was mean to someone.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 12 July 2025 source ↗

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Greta Thunberg. She has reached into the hearts and minds of people all over the world and woken them up to the terrible impact we are having on our planet. What a fascinating force of nature she is.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 August 2019 source ↗