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When were you most embarrassed?

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When I concentrate, I put my thumb in my mouth. I once did it during a really important meeting when asked a question I didn’t know the answer to. When I left the meeting my friend said: “What did you put your thumb in your mouth for?” I didn’t know I’d done it.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 August 2026 source ↗
Frank Cottrell-Boyce British screenwriter, novelist and actor
I once found myself chatting to a big handsome bloke at a party in Oslo. I said, “And what do you do?” “Well,” he said, “I am the king.” Being a great wordsmith, I zinged back, “Oh. Errm. Cool.”
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 July 2023 source ↗
At the TV Baftas last year I was wearing these heels that had stiff bows on the front. One heel locked into the other bow and I went arse over tit.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 February 2024 source ↗
I did an interview years ago and, after it finished, I made some passing comment about sex getting better as you get older – and they used that as the headline. The day the paper came out, I was in a restaurant with the family when a woman on the table next to me leaned over and said, in a sultry voice, “I read your article this morning.”
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 5 April 2025 source ↗

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