Heidi Klum
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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
Asked in 52 of the 131 consecutive instalments of The Guardian's The Q&A harvested on 2026-08-29.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
During the first three months of the first lockdown. I was at home with my family and I was such a cliche: I was baking sourdough, making my own granola. It was an idyllic time.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 November 2023 source ↗
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March 1981 – preparing to open The Seafood Restaurant, Padstow, for a new season.
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At work, my happiest moments are between “action” and “cut”. I am also very happy when justice is done, and when camping.
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Can't pick and choose, it's bad luck.
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A sense of the world being full of possibility and it being in their hands to make it a better one.
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