The question
When were you most embarrassed?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
A verbatim recurring question in The Guardian's Q&A series.
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Where do I begin?
The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 February 2025 source ↗
When you jump out of addiction and look back, things like drink-driving and sitting in crack houses are not good.
Sending a text meant for my wife to Dara O'Briain by mistake, revealing myself to be a control freak.
Falling flat on my face in Billy Elliot on Boxing Day when I was 14. I fell smack bang at the end of my number. I was mortified.
On stage in Tasmania, I tripped over a floor monitor and landed on my back like a turtle, kicking my legs in the air trying to get back on my feet in front of about 5,000 people. But when I got on my feet, the whole crowd roared in triumph.
I worked on a kibbutz in Israel and had to clean out the chicken run. It was like an oven. Inside were rows and rows of chickens that had been shitting for months – the whole floor was six inches deep in chicken shit.
Unemployment – I’m an actor.
On the interstate. Anyone who has driven in the United States will know that you are always very close to death – it is like the wild west on the freeways.
I’d like my parents to be alive – I miss them.
“Next! We’re looking for somebody else.”
A successful marriage, my third.
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