The question
What accomplishment matters most to you?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
Verbatim recurring item in The Guardian Q&A; two fully readable publisher-hosted respondent pages establish institutional recurrence.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Growing three brains.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 August 2026 source ↗
I’m still working on it.
The Blazing World.
I have a great family, great friends, and a fantastic career. But I'm also really proud of the work I do for kids—like the Special Olympics, promoting health and fitness for youngsters, and working on afterschool programs, such as the Inner City Games and Arnold's All-Stars.
Professionally, becoming a relative success in a job that I love; and personally, helping to raise two wonderful children.
Coldness, selfishness.
I think I had a close shave with the taxi driver John Worboys. I was in Soho and going back to Chiswick where I lived, and I got a black cab. This guy wouldn’t stop talking and he offered me champagne, and I said: “I don’t like champagne.” It went a bit quiet and I thought I’d offended him. Then I remember going: “Hang on a minute, you shouldn’t be drinking champagne if you’re driving.” And he said: “I’ve just won the lottery and I’m finished after this.” I had a lucky escape.
My kids navigating the world as it is today – and daddy longlegs.
Passionate, gobby, flabby.
The second agent I had said: “The thing is, you look like something but then you open your mouth.” So I got myself a sketch show and left, and she lost out.
She was surprisingly good at the harpsichord.
Paul Heaton, Erin Doherty, Mark Bonnar, Billy Porter, Edwina Currie, Russell Mael
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