Gabby Logan
Welsh TV/radio presenter and rhythmic gymnast
I am always happiest when my kids are on good form and we are having a lovely family dinner.
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Asked in 52 of the 131 consecutive instalments of The Guardian's The Q&A harvested on 2026-08-29.
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As a child playing in my parents’ garden in Birmingham, which they still have, and where my daughters play, swinging on my swing that my dad made for me.
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Seth Meyers
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My wedding day, listening to my brother’s best-man speech.
Camille Paglia
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Snorkelling for an hour with a comically disciplined and curiously attentive squadron of six, fat Caribbean reef squid off Mexico.
David Hare
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I took Nicole out to dinner for the first time on 19 October, 1991. After that, everything changed.
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Waitressing. I was so bad. I smashed things. I once mistakenly ordered a very expensive bottle of wine for a table. They thought they were ordering a very average bottle of wine, and I ordered them an £800 bottle and they drank it. I got the sack a few weeks later.
When I was young, I was pretty reckless – my 20s were quite hedonistic. I don’t know whether I’ve been close to death, but I may have been without realising.
To let things go.
A grandfather clock for my partner’s birthday.
Having no purpose.
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