Meghann Fahy: Which moment embarrassed you most?

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Recorded Meghann Fahy said elsewhere, not written here

In my 20s I was in a show called The Unauthorised Autobiography of Samantha Brown. The actor who played my dad messed up his lines and it made me laugh so hard that I ended up peeing my pants.

The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 April 2026 source ↗

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Bryn Terfel Welsh bass-baritone singer

One horrible afternoon in Chicago when I forgot my words in The Marriage of Figaro, in a role I’d sung hundreds of times.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 November 2024 source ↗

Ed Harris American actor and director

Modelling tuxedos at the Oklahoma State Fair in 1971.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 August 2007 source ↗

Edward Enninful Ghanaian-born English editor and stylist

When my trousers nearly fell down at Buckingham Palace. I was there to collect my OBE, and the suspenders for the beautiful Alexander McQueen suit I’d had made for the occasion went missing. Naomi Campbell was with me and we had a good laugh about it.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 December 2022 source ↗

Shaznay Lewis English singer

A gazillion years ago I was in Gucci with Melanie Blatt, and I attempted to sit down on a chair that wasn’t there. I did a full-on stuntwoman backward roll, landed in a ball of the floor and laughed so hard I wet myself. Everybody in the shop moved to a different section.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 June 2024 source ↗