Jason Donovan: What trait do you most dislike in other people? — FLAPSS

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What trait do you most dislike in other people?

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Jason Donovan

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Looking down at other people. I was brought up to treat people as you treat yourself, with respect. The people you meet on the way up are the people you meet on the way down.

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

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Ina Garten Cookery writer and shop owner

Lying on the sofa watching old episodes of Law & Order all day.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2016 source ↗

Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen English interior designer and television personality

Other people’s decorating, if I feel they’ve missed an opportunity and just decorated in that wet-cardboard, modern-grey thing. That’s a life not properly lived.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 October 2022 source ↗

The inability to listen.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2018 source ↗

Erin O'Connor English model

Unnecessary judgment.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 March 2008 source ↗

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Question How close have you come to dying? Death & what remains

Maybe in the 1990s, but I was so selfish at the time, I wouldn’t really have noticed what was going on.

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

Question How would you sum yourself up in three words? Identity & self

Hardworking, authentic and honest.

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

Question If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change? Failure & regret

My relationship with drugs.

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

Question Which book do you still mean to read, and why has it stayed on your list? Taste & recommendation

My own biography! Being serious, there’s an Australian novel by Gregory Roberts called Shantaram that I didn’t read through.

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

Question What disappointment has stayed with you longest? Failure & regret

I got seduced by being a pop star, and why wouldn’t I? I think I could have made a few more career moves with films. But I was nervous. How do you move forward as an actor creatively if you are just appealing to teenage girls?

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

Question What do you believe happens when we die? Death & what remains

I don’t know and I don’t really care – I’ll be dead.

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

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