The question
Who alive today do you admire most, and what draws you to them?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.
Anyone who can pick up a house spider with their bare hands.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 May 2026 source ↗
David Hare – he’s always fascinating and funny.
My little sister Grace. In all the ways in which I am not capable or grounded or calm, she is.
Eden Hazard, a true sportsman.
Mike Leigh: his work is important.
Endless vomiting. That comes from my emetophobia, which is a huge part of my OCD.
Getting to 39 without having a filling in my teeth.
Congratulating Dua Lipa on managing to release a single in such a tough industry, because I thought she was a struggling indie artist. I Googled her the next day and realised that she has 88 million followers.
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I’d swap out a few boyfriends.
Tenacious, romantic, organised.
Elton John, Whoopi Goldberg, Rebecca Lucy Taylor, Henry Louis Gates Jr., David Byrne, Sarah Brown
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