How would you describe yourself in three words?

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Recorded Tom Burke said elsewhere, not written here
Steady, reaching, bewildered.

The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 May 2026 source ↗

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Question Which moment embarrassed you most? Failure & regret
Putting chocolate mousse in my agent’s face. Somebody had done it to me – that thing where they go, “Smell this, it smells funny”, and then they put it in your nose. A year later I was in this French restaurant with a very 1980s-style dessert trolley and, before I knew it, I had a bowl of chocolate mousse in front of me. And my agent went, “What’s that smell?”, and it felt impossible not to … I immediately felt awful and tried to apologise. He, of course, said that he found it funny. But I knew he didn’t.
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