Fran Healy
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Vogue, to one guest at a time, on camera, 73 Questions
A recurring legacy prompt in Vogue's 73 Questions, appearing with only minor wording changes.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
A loving father and wonderful husband, and the best actor of my generation!
The Q&A, The Guardian, 5 April 2025 source ↗
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Gloria Steinem
Writer and feminist organiser
As someone who left the world around me a little kinder and less hierarchical.
Human, evolving and faithful.
John Prescott
Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007
As an aggressive bugger.
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Chaotic, daft and loving.
A sense of wonder.
Like a warm velvet glove.
I did an interview years ago and, after it finished, I made some passing comment about sex getting better as you get older – and they used that as the headline. The day the paper came out, I was in a restaurant with the family when a woman on the table next to me leaned over and said, in a sultry voice, “I read your article this morning.”
First, I wanted to be a historian, then a drummer, and after that I just wanted to be employed. And I still do.
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