Julian Clary: 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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Julian Clary

English actor, comedian, novelist and presenter

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

Running out of Molecule cologne.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 June 2022 source ↗

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Kellie Maloney Retired boxing manager, promoter and politician

Losing my family.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 August 2024 source ↗

Ironically, it’s talking to hundreds of people in a room.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 October 2023 source ↗

Chaka Khan American singer

I am not afraid.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 May 2024 source ↗

Stephen Fry Actor, writer and broadcaster

Being found out.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, June 2015 source ↗

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Question What period or moment in your life brought you the most joy? Time & hindsight

Sydney mardi gras, 1993.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 June 2022 source ↗

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

Dame Joan Collins. She insists on being happy whatever is going on and, despite being a Tory, is a very caring person.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 June 2022 source ↗

Question How close have you come to dying? Death & what remains

A gig in Chatham.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 June 2022 source ↗

Question Who deserves an apology from you, and for what? Failure & regret

I’ve made some terrible remarks about people over the years in the interests of light entertainment, and I regret them all.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 June 2022 source ↗

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

My cold indifference towards discarded friends.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 June 2022 source ↗

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

My education. Benedictine monks didn’t really prepare me for the life I have lived.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 June 2022 source ↗

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