Anne Robinson: Who alive today do you admire most, and what draws you to them?

The question

Originally asked

The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

The Guardian's Q&A repeatedly uses this prompt, sometimes dropping 'living' while retaining the same comparative judgment.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Anne Robinson

English television presenter and journalist

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

Any mother with young children who is also doing a full-time job.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 August 2010 source ↗

Others on this question

Alison Moyet English singer

My older sister, Jeanne. We fought when we were kids, but she is so entirely capable.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 June 2017 source ↗

My uncle, Edward Wood Dunham. He has Parkinson’s disease and faces every day with bravery, humor, and a gin-and-tonic.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2014 source ↗

Una Stubbs British actress, television personality, and dancer

My best friend, the choreographer Dougie Squires. Somebody once said his heart is like a hotel with hundreds of doors for everybody.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 April 2016 source ↗

Jason Byrne Irish comedian

My mother, because she raised all of us. I do have a dad, but in those days dads never helped with the kids.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 November 2012 source ↗

That I don't have thin ankles.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 August 2010 source ↗

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