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What is the worst thing anyone has said to you?
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Which moment embarrassed you most?
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Aside from a property, what is the most expensive thing you have bought?
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What is the trait you most deplore in others?
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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.
Losing my marbles.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 July 2024 source ↗
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Not having the people I love around me.
Robert Glenister
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Premature demise.
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View profile →Love makes me feel sick. I get sick with worry about my kids. It keeps me up at night.
Filming a TV show in a field in the snow in February in the Dublin hills for 14 hours; the director said, “We’re not going to get that shot today.”
I was born in 1964, in the most working-class area of Liverpool, so the N-word was bandied around a lot.
The Fake Sheikh did a sting on me once and the News of the World headline was “Craig Charles is an evil drug-pushing monster”. That wasn’t good on the school run, I’ll tell you that.
A Rolls-Royce. I met my wife, Jackie, when I was filming a Lynda La Plante drama called The Governor. I fell in love with her instantly and I was bullshitting that I had a Rolls-Royce. When I finished filming, she decided to leave her country and come and live with me in London. On the way to the airport, I phoned my PA and said, “Go and buy a Rolls-Royce.”
Selfishness and cruelty.
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