Kind, thoughtful and gave damn good advice.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 June 2025 source ↗
The question
How would you want people to remember you?Originally asked
Vogue, to one guest at a time, on camera, 73 Questions
A recurring legacy prompt in Vogue's 73 Questions, appearing with only minor wording changes.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Kind, thoughtful and gave damn good advice.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 June 2025 source ↗
I am flattered and embarassed by all the recent attention to my "Last Lecture." I am told that, including abridged versions, over six million people have viewed the lecture online. The lecture really was for my kids, but if others are finding value in it, that is wonderful. But rest assured; I'm hardly unique. Send your kids to Carnegie Mellon and the other professors here will teach them valuable life lessons long after I'm gone.
With smile lines.
As kind, unafraid and boldly vulnerable – and immensely talented, like, mega supernova level. And super hot. And tall. With great skin.
With tenderness.
Like you’ve got hot-water bottles all over you.
Carlos Acosta, for his incredible achievement in dance.
My daughters and granddaughters.
I play Classic FM in the car – emotional music brings me to tears thinking about people I’ve loved and lost.
Life is never fair.
A Biba dress when I really couldn’t afford it. It was every scrap of my money and I’ve never parted with it.
Ruth Jones, Marcus Mumford, Robert Peston, Fiona Allen, Emma Bunton, John Grisham
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