The question
What do you fear most?Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
The exact prompt is fixed in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire and independently sustained in The Guardian's The Q&A over multiple decades.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Dying too young, and spiders.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 August 2025 source ↗
To let fear overcome my life. We’re not gonna let that happen because love is always greater than fear.
Anything underneath me in water I can’t see to the bottom of.
COVID-19 and how it’s affecting everyone. Also, I’m afraid of not knowing when I’ll be able to perform in front of people again and enjoy an audience.
Not trying something I really want to do.
Gloria Hunniford’s wedding at Hever Castle 20-odd years ago. We had a lovely buffet and a few drinks and then I had to get a cab back to the train station. I said to the driver: “I’m ever so sorry, but I’m not going to be able to hang on till I get to the train. Could you possibly take me down this alleyway?” He said: “Yes, of course.” As I prepared myself to go “to the ladies”, this police car came along and the policeman said: “Hi-de-Hi!”
People who aren’t kind enough.
A hand-painted beaded dress from New York. It weighs about 16lb and cost me £4,000, 30 years ago.
Getting my full Equity card as a professional performer.
For bringing positivity to people.
We drift off to a beautiful place where we live a better, fuller life than what we’ve left.
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