Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
A fixed Guardian Q&A prompt asked directly across respondents and years.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 April 2026 source ↗
To my father, for the time that was lost when we weren’t getting along. We were able to reconcile a few months before he passed away five years ago.
Probably my wife, because sometimes I do crazy things.
My parents. We didn’t realise how absolutely desperate they were when we left Germany, because my father couldn’t earn anything. A letter turned up fairly recently in which he said, “We’ve been through a terrible time because Julia [my mother] never stopped talking about suicide and not just for herself, but to take the children with her.”
To the Scissor Sisters. Back in the day, I could be an absolute monster; I was a real asshole.
I couldn’t care less.
Now that I’m at this end of my career, I’m gobsmacked that I’ve managed to cling on for as long as I have.
Impatience married with being very quick to judge.
I called Elizabeth McGovern Elizabeth Montgomery throughout a show. But, bless her, she didn’t say anything.
Our wedding weekend in Ireland.
When I was growing up, my mother would accuse me of showing off. That’s the most shaming, humbling, horrible thing. What was I doing? Showing off!
Natalie Imbruglia, David Haye, John Simpson, Sally Lindsay, Ice-T, Marian Keyes
Search the directory for somebody in particular.