Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
This is a standing question in The Guardian's decades-long The Q&A and also recurs independently in career and life interviews.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 June 2019 source ↗
I only ever wanted to be an actor or a rock star. I was suspended from school in the sixth form and allowed back only when I promised to join the army. But I lied.
In the Beatles.
A vet, but I wasn’t smart enough.
I told my mum I wanted to be a swan.
We Weren’t Born To Follow by Bon Jovi.
Being charged by a white rhino on a walking safari. It came running towards us and I froze, which is the right thing to do. If it had hit us, it would have been goodnight.
Nappies aren’t fun!
Cars. I’ve got a Tesla at the moment.
The way I left English cricket. I was scapegoated for the Ashes tour in 2013-14 and there was a bitter battle between the England Cricket Board and me for a few years.
With no shoes on in the African bush with my family.
Serena Williams, Victoria Pendleton, Chris Hoy, Johanna Konta, Chris Bonington, Gareth Bale
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