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.
I’m afraid of the dark.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 November 2025 source ↗
A world destroyed by science-denying mediocrity.
To be so cold that I am not able to sleep.
Losing my memory.
Not waking up in the morning.
Very complicated.
Seeing my kids getting older scares me.
People who aren’t polite.
Complicated, chaotic, messy.
“You’re not in Busted any more.” I successfully auditioned to be in Busted and then a couple of days later I got a phone call to say that I was no longer needed as they were going to keep it as the three of them. But it ended up being OK.
I was in Oliver! when I was 10 and I peed myself on stage in front of however many people the Palladium holds. It was the stuff of nightmares.
Rita Wilson, Helen George, Jimmy Kimmel, Joseph Fiennes, Jason Manford, Timothy Hutton
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