The question
Who deserves an apology from you, and for what?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
A fixed Guardian Q&A prompt asked directly across respondents and years.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
My first wife, because I left her.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 August 2026 source ↗
My dog, Mr Q, because he has the saddest look when I leave.
Katy Perry. I hired a Russell Brand lookalike as a joke for the radio, and she thought it was actually him. When she realised it wasn’t, she burst into tears. She was still married to him, but I didn’t take into account that there were things going on that we didn’t know.
Our dog, Snowy. He’s a miniature poodle, and he’s needy and really irritating as a result.
Everybody, now and before, who was fleeing for their lives and wasn’t allowed into our country.
That’s the 64-million-dollar question.
Mucking out pigs on a farm when I was 15.
When they don’t tell the truth.
Every actor has the same fear – ie, you’re never going to work again.
I was about six years old in a market square in Italy and my dad said, “Oh, those shorts would look perfect on you.” So he whipped my trousers off and I hadn’t got any knickers on.
I cry all the time in front of the telly. I was doing Gogglebox with Julian Clary recently and I cried watching The Piano.
Floella Benjamin, Gloria Steinem, Matthew Kelly, Jon Snow, Engelbert Humperdinck, Kelly Hoppen
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