The question
Excluding property, what is the most expensive thing you have ever bought?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's weekly The Q&A repeatedly uses this standing prompt, with minor contractions and word-order variation.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Passion projects. I built the world’s first CBD steam room, opened the first Jamaican restaurant in Tenerife, I’m about to open a bar. Because I come from poverty, I want to make sure my children have a better start than I did.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 January 2022 source ↗
My beautiful silver Jaguar XKR soft-top.
A road track car, a Porsche GT3. I’ve done the 24-hour race in Le Mans, which was a dream come true.
An old camper van that has cost me more in repairs than my house, my wedding and all the holidays I’ve ever been on.
A Porsche 911 Turbo.
Ed Sheeran, a little ginger boy from the farmlands in Suffolk who ran away to London, slept on the streets and became the biggest musician in the world.
Yesterday – I’m bipolar.
As an honest person who tried to help where he could. Nothing fancy.
When I first got excluded from school at 15, my dad gave me experience as a roofer. That’s when I came to realise I’m scared of heights.
It isn’t supposed to hurt, I know that.
Documentaries, my dog and Pornhub.
Carlos Acosta, Jack Dee, Maya Jama, Jon Snow, Kwame Kwei-Armah, Reggie Yates
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