David Hasselhoff
American actor, singer, and television personality
Not working and not being able to continue to live this lifestyle.
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Who most deserves an apology from you, and why?
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What most recently made you cry?
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Which book are you ashamed not to have read?
Taste & recommendation
Originally asked
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.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
As an Italian, tinned spaghetti. As a child, I was once served it at someone’s house. It was quite frightening.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 July 2026 source ↗
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Danielle Steel
Novelist
Losing another child. (I lost one of my sons to suicide when he was 19.)
Dying: I’m too iconic to go.
Being murdered – I listen to too many true-crime podcasts.
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View profile →I worry a lot about how to juggle being a single parent and working – scheduling keeps me up at night!
Not having the ability to say sorry when they’re wrong.
My younger self for being hard on myself.
Alanis Morissette because, in my earlier career, she was a big influence on me and had a feistiness that you didn’t see much of in women in the industry. Also, she has been very vocal about mental health issues.
On the way here, because I was late.
None. I’m not ashamed. I’m dyslexic so I don’t read a lot of books.
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