Kellie Maloney: What do you fear most? — FLAPSS

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What do you fear most?

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Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire

The exact prompt is fixed in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire and independently sustained in The Guardian's The Q&A over multiple decades.

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Kellie Maloney

Retired boxing manager, promoter and politician

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

Losing my family.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 August 2024 source ↗

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Being confined in a straitjacket.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2018 source ↗

Sofia Coppola American filmmaker and actress

Being stuck in a project that’s not challenging me, or true to my nature.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 March 2023 source ↗

Kevin Rowland British singer

Insanity. I am on a recovery programme – clean from drugs and drink for many years – and if I stopped doing all that stuff I’d go crazy pretty quick and pick up drugs again, because I was a real fucking addict.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 August 2025 source ↗

Losing my mind.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 September 2023 source ↗

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Question Who alive today do you admire most, and what draws you to them? Values & belief

The pope. I was brought up in the Catholic religion, and I think he is trying to make the church more accepting of all. He’s got a very hard job because the church is very stuck in its rightwing conservative ways.

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

Question What lesson has mattered most in your life? Time & hindsight

Choose your friends wisely.

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

Question Excluding property, what is the most expensive thing you have ever bought? Money & investment

A black Russian terrier – I paid almost £4,000 for him.

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

Question What period or moment in your life brought you the most joy? Time & hindsight

At the birth of my children; when Lennox Lewis was crowned undisputed world heavyweight champion; and the day I had my final gender reassignment operation.

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

Question What disappointment has stayed with you longest? Failure & regret

Not being truthful to everyone from an earlier age.

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

Question What trait do you most dislike in other people? Values & belief

Being two-faced.

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

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