The question
What do you fear most?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.
Not being able to work.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 February 2026 source ↗
Sheer drops, like a precipice.
Child, loss or damage thereof.
Going back to addiction.
Losing my mind.
Friendly, opinionated, hilarious.
Learning lines.
Removal of fear and anxiety.
Insurance – it’s such a scam.
I didn’t get a part in a TV series for a writer that I’ve always wanted to work with, but I wasn’t right for it, if I’m truly honest.
Fifty per cent of the books on my shelf, so much so that I gave them away.
Cybill Shepherd, Ina Garten, Ardal O'Hanlon, Joan Rivers, Matthew Modine, Edward Enninful
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