Bear Grylls: What do you fear most? — FLAPSS

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What do you fear most?

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Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire

The exact prompt is fixed in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire and independently sustained in The Guardian's The Q&A over multiple decades.

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Bear Grylls

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Small things make me anxious – like social things – but I have no big fears because I have faith in my heart.

The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 January 2026 source ↗

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Patrick Stewart Actor

That I would lose her.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2016 source ↗

I don’t want to be lost and burn in hell.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, November 2001 source ↗

Hugh Grant Actor

The cat bowls. With the old cat food dried on like cement.

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

My kids navigating the world as it is today – and daddy longlegs.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 August 2026 source ↗

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Caring too much about what others think.

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Why is your nose so wonky?

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Light of the Almighty in my heart.

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