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Who alive today do you admire most, and what draws you to them?

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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

The Guardian's Q&A repeatedly uses this prompt, sometimes dropping 'living' while retaining the same comparative judgment.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

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Prue Leith

South African-British chef, broadcaster, and writer

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Desmond Tutu. If there is a God, He must find his Cape Town archbishop a big relief from the humourlessness of pontificating prelates.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 May 2012 source ↗

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Tommy Hilfiger American fashion designer
Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Earth Institute. The work he and the team are doing to reduce extreme poverty is phenomenal.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 December 2011 source ↗
Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen English interior designer and television personality
The missus. She is the glamour mamma mia at the top of our feudal pyramid. We all live together, so she’s a full-time grandmother and rules the roost. How she steered us through lockdown was extraordinary.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 October 2022 source ↗

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