The question
As a child, what career or life did you imagine for yourself?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
This is a standing question in The Guardian's decades-long The Q&A and also recurs independently in career and life interviews.
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A teacher and a nightclub singer.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 February 2024 source ↗
An astronaut. I still do.
An actress. I started when I was 13 at theatre school. My first assembly, Tom and I were sat next to each other.
The male Whitney Houston.
I haven’t grown up.
My hybrid car. Not glamorous, not fast, but indispensable.
When I started as a researcher in the BBC, I was working for an editor who was a self-confessed misogynist. He used to practise shooting by aiming his air gun at an aerosol can balanced just over my head. I made it a matter of pride not to flinch as the pellets whizzed by.
Alan Bates, Lord Arbuthnot and Nick Wallis for exposing the Post Office and Fujitsu and, let’s hope, for ensuring everyone is properly compensated.
To everyone I’ve bored.
Like intoxication, sometimes followed by a hangover.
Young, beautiful, deluded.
Rick Astley, Andrew Ridgeley, Warwick Davis, Edmund Hillary, Aidan Gillen, Paterson Joseph
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