David Hasselhoff: What do you fear most? — FLAPSS

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What do you fear most?

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Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire

The exact prompt is fixed in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire and independently sustained in The Guardian's The Q&A over multiple decades.

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David Hasselhoff

American actor, singer, and television personality

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Not working and not being able to continue to live this lifestyle.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 April 2009 source ↗

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Jack Whitehall English comedian, actor, presenter and writer

Turning into my father.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 April 2023 source ↗

Hans Zimmer Film composer

A world destroyed by science-denying mediocrity.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, January 2019 source ↗

That I can’t write.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 October 2023 source ↗

Being on a plane that is about to crash.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, October 2021 source ↗

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Question What is the worst job you have ever had? Craft & work

Selling fire alarms at 18 or 19.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 April 2009 source ↗

Question If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change? Failure & regret

My drinking habits.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 April 2009 source ↗

Question Who alive today do you admire most, and what draws you to them? Values & belief

My father, because he's a positive man with an enormous amount of compassion. My mother passed away four days ago.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 April 2009 source ↗

Question What is the harshest thing anyone has said to you? Failure & regret

"You can't see your children for two weeks." (When I was going through my divorce.)

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 April 2009 source ↗

Question Which trait in yourself do you like least? Identity & self

Holding a grudge.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 April 2009 source ↗

Question What disappointment has stayed with you longest? Failure & regret

That I wasn't Indiana Jones.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 April 2009 source ↗

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