James Norton
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Rats. We had one swim up our loo recently, it was horrific.
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Originally asked
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.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Figuratively doing nothing.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2019 source ↗
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Vick Hope
British television and radio presenter
When I was growing up, I thought quicksand was going to be a much bigger fear to contend with on a day‑to-day basis. It hasn’t proved to be a bother yet, but there’s still time.
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To be eaten by a shark.
I don’t want to be lost and burn in hell.
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Unwillingness to change.
My intense self-loathing.
Good TV, good delivery, perfect AC. Literally doing nothing.
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