Gregory Porter: What has been your biggest disappointment?

What has been your biggest disappointment?

Originally asked

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

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Recorded Gregory Porter said elsewhere, not written here

The Covid years. My life is diminished since then. I lost my brother. My children lost some social expression, and we are still recovering from that.

The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 April 2025 source ↗

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Camille Paglia American feminist academic and critic

The shocking decline of artistic quality in Hollywood movies over the past 15 years.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 5 April 2008 source ↗

Kevin Pietersen English cricketer

The way I left English cricket. I was scapegoated for the Ashes tour in 2013-14 and there was a bitter battle between the England Cricket Board and me for a few years.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 June 2019 source ↗

Laura Mvula English singer

Not winning the Mercury.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 August 2014 source ↗

Rob Lowe American actor

That I wasn't able to stay on The West Wing longer.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 26 August 2011 source ↗