Russell Howard: If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change?

The question

If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change?

Originally asked

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

Repeated verbatim in The Guardian's long-running Saturday Q&A; two publisher-hosted examples establish recurrence.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Russell Howard

British comedian and presenter

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

I wouldn’t lose my virginity at an army camp and then roll over on to an ants’ nest.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 February 2020 source ↗

Others on this question

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Jenna Coleman English actress

I would take away fear.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 February 2019 source ↗

Marie Kondo Japanese organizing consultant, author, and television show host

I don’t have anything that I want to change. I’m sure I did in the past but I can’t recall, which means it wasn’t that big a deal.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 January 2022 source ↗

Vicky McClure English actress

I wasted a year doing nothing at 18. I got with a guy and just wanted to hang out. It didn’t do me any favours.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 March 2018 source ↗

Bryn Terfel Welsh bass-baritone singer

That moment in Bilbao in 2020, when I tried to cross the street and did a pirouette and suffered a dreadful break in my right leg, which means now I have 10 screws and a band in it.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 November 2024 source ↗