Jack Whitehall: If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change?

The question

If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change?

Originally asked

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

Repeated verbatim in The Guardian's long-running Saturday Q&A; two publisher-hosted examples establish recurrence.

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

Jack Whitehall

English comedian, actor, presenter and writer

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

All of my hairstyles from the age of 16 to 25.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 April 2023 source ↗

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Shirley Ballas English ballroom dancer

I would be much more available for my brother when he was not well and try to understand more about mental health, which I didn’t know anything about at the time.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 June 2018 source ↗

Adam Kay British comedy writer, author, youtuber, comedian and former physician

I could have done without being sexually assaulted, or having an eating disorder, or pushing myself to breaking point, but every chapter of my life brought me here.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 June 2023 source ↗

Esther Rantzen

Maybe I should have agreed to take the job of controller of BBC One when Bill Cotton offered it to me. I do feel a wimp; I would have been the first woman in the job.What do you consider your greatest achievement? I don’t really claim credit, I hope, for helping to launch Childline and the Silver Line and Silver Stories. It is an achievement that they all exist, but that is down to their amazing teams.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 February 2024 source ↗

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