The question
How would you sum yourself up in three words?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's weekly The Q&A repeatedly uses this exact standing prompt.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Driven, authentic, resilient.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 March 2026 source ↗
Kind, insubstantial and dedicated.
Quiet, noisy, androgynous.
Enthusiastic, enthusiastic, enthusiastic.
Trying quite hard.
I would like to believe that you reunite with the people you love the most.
I almost pulled out of my first solo tour because of impostor syndrome.
When my UK citizenship was approved. It’s taken me eight years and lots and lots of money. I was at home in South Africa when I received the news and my mum said, “I am so happy for you because this is your glitterball.”
In South Africa I washed cars, I danced in parking lots and shopping malls, and was a children’s entertainer.
When my trousers split on stage in Burn the Floor in Australia. I had always been warned to wear my flesh underwear and I did not that day.
As someone who cared boldly about people, stood firmly for what he believed in and lifted others when they needed help.
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