Rob Brydon: Who alive today do you admire most, and what draws you to them?

The question

Originally asked

The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

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.

Rob Brydon

Welsh actor and comedian

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

Rod Stewart. For obvious reasons.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 August 2012 source ↗

Mentioned in this answer

People who do hard, honorable work in obscurity.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, January 2024 source ↗

Gloria Steinem Writer and feminist organiser

Dr Denis Mukwege, because he is to sexualised violence against females what Mandela was to apartheid.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 March 2017 source ↗

Alison Moyet English singer

My older sister, Jeanne. We fought when we were kids, but she is so entirely capable.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 June 2017 source ↗

Pope Francis, who left the Vatican to wash the feet of non-believers.

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

As a boy in a tree.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 August 2012 source ↗

Meeting Rod Stewart.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 August 2012 source ↗

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