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 ↗
Myself. I didn’t know how to protect myself adequately when I was younger, and I think I would have experienced my youth differently if I had.
The people I worked with when I was in the final two years of my drinking.
To my kids, for my shortcomings.
To people who I’ve made a really quick joke about on stage and hurt.
Nothing at all.
I cry all the time in front of the telly. I was doing Gogglebox with Julian Clary recently and I cried watching The Piano.
As a perfectly decent bloke.
Mucking out pigs on a farm when I was 15.
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.
The king – because he’s been through quite a bit and I think he’s come out the other side brilliantly.
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