Ann Dowd
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As a good person.
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Originally asked
Vogue, to one guest at a time, on camera, 73 Questions
A recurring legacy prompt in Vogue's 73 Questions, appearing with only minor wording changes.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
As someone who left the world slightly more interesting than he found it.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 October 2023 source ↗
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Gino D'Acampo
Italian-British celebrity chef and media personality
As a nice and fair guy who helped bring authentic Italian cooking to the UK.
As the dark-haired bird from Bananarama.
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View profile →My soon-to-be ex-wife, Amanda. I wish I’d been able to do whatever would have been necessary all the way back to keep us as a unit. Probably the worst thing I did was not tell her how miserable I was, certain that I could turn this around somehow.
The only job I quit was, aged about 23, subediting a “men’s” magazine. My job was typing out readers’ pornographic fantasies. I started wishing people would reproduce by splitting down the middle.
Imaginative, dull, amiable.
I like the idea of being atoms that other people can breathe in, and fabulous worm food.
Mostly the pain. I don’t want to be trapped in a body that hurts.
The idiocy of going to Skye from New Zealand in April 2020. All of a sudden, I’m turning on the news and hearing myself as an item. I have never been more mortified.
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