Julian Clary: 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.

Julian Clary

English actor, comedian, novelist and presenter

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

My education. Benedictine monks didn’t really prepare me for the life I have lived.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 June 2022 source ↗

Others on this question

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Samuel West British actor, theatre director, and narrator

I’d have done everything earlier and with more style.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 October 2020 source ↗

Bill Bryson American-British author

Nothing. It’s too risky. What if you eliminated a misjudged situation from your life and it turned out that one of your children wasn’t born, or you failed to meet your partner?

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 February 2016 source ↗

Jason Donovan

My relationship with drugs.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 January 2024 source ↗

Michelle Dockery British actress

Several haircuts and my belly-button piercing.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 January 2020 source ↗