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Camila Batmanghelidjh, the founder of Kids Company.
Which living person do you most admire, and why?
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The Guardian's Q&A repeatedly uses this prompt, sometimes dropping 'living' while retaining the same comparative judgment.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Gerry Adams, because he’s got incredible integrity and vision, and he’s had to put up with so much flak.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 August 2025 source ↗
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Dame Joan Collins. She insists on being happy whatever is going on and, despite being a Tory, is a very caring person.
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The man I know the best: Andre.
Jennifer Hudson
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Aretha Franklin. I mean, she’s Aretha! That says it all.
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The contentment I have now.
My brother Pete passing on in 2005.
I’d have stuck with the original Dexys Midnight Runners look we started in 1978, which became known as the New Romantic look a couple of years later. Our management and record label talked us out of it. Later, Duran Duran and Spandau came out with that look and that made us look old-fashioned.
I worked in the stores of Edgware hospital when I was about 17, and it was grey and depressing.
On stage – the Old Vic in 1981 and Glastonbury last year.
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