Andrew Ridgeley: What did you want to be when you were growing up?

What did you want to be when you were growing up?

Originally asked

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

This is a standing question in The Guardian's decades-long The Q&A and also recurs independently in career and life interviews.

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

Recorded Andrew Ridgeley said elsewhere, not written here

That rather assumes I have grown up.

The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 December 2024 source ↗

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Joanna Scanlan British actress and writer

An actor or a nun.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 31 March 2018 source ↗

Jo Nesbø Norwegian writer and musician

I wanted to play for Tottenham.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 April 2026 source ↗

David Harewood British actor and presenter

I had no idea. When I was a week away from leaving school, a teacher said, “We’ve been talking in the staffroom and we all think you should be an actor.” I thought, “That’s exactly what I want.” The rest is history.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 November 2019 source ↗

Nish Kumar British stand-up comedian and presenter

Something in comedy. It was either this or Jimi Hendrix.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 February 2019 source ↗