Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
A recurring Guardian Q&A prompt asked directly across respondents and years.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 November 2018 source ↗
In a helicopter crash in Wyoming in 2005. My cameraman broke his back and both legs; the pilot broke his back. The helicopter didn’t catch fire, so I’m still here today.
In April 2015 I nearly died, as my heart was finding it too difficult to keep my smoke-destroyed lungs going.
In 2006, I went fishing for red snapper in the Gulf of Mexico. On the way back, one of the engines caught fire and then we had one engine for 70 miles. Slowly but surely, we got to Baton Rouge in the darkness but then got very close to a very large passing ship – they didn’t see us and we didn’t see them.
A piece of scenery fell on my head during Richard II at the Globe theatre in 2019. I was very badly hurt.
To have made a career in TV while being nervous by nature and incapable of doing a piece to camera.
There was a period in the early 2000s when I had been doing celebrity profiles and thought I’d lost my way creatively.
The Weird Weekends theme music: Mini Skirt by Esquivel.
To everyone who has been out with me and had to deal with my lack of emotional maturity.
You suddenly get what people are talking about when they talk about being in love.
Zack Polanski, Robert Peston, Keir Starmer, Sadiq Khan, Gloria Steinem, Desmond Tutu
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