Dan Aykroyd: What has been your biggest disappointment?

What has been your biggest disappointment?

Originally asked

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Recorded Dan Aykroyd said elsewhere, not written here

Failure at surfing school.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 June 2013 source ↗

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Rita Ora British singer-songwriter

I got dropped from two record deals when I was 14 and 17.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 August 2015 source ↗

Russell Tovey English actor

Never learning to play the piano.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 October 2010 source ↗

Philip Treacy Irish-born haute couture milliner

My friends dying: Alexander (McQueen), Isabella (Blow), a friend of cancer last year.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 August 2014 source ↗

Samira Ahmed British journalist and writer

When I was a 26-year-old news correspondent, the head of BBC news gathering, Chris Cramer, refused to let me take up a six-month attachment on the foreign affairs programme Correspondent. He said: “I think it’s too soon; you could do it later.” He’d never have said that to a man.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 January 2022 source ↗