Dominic Cooper
English actor
I am pretty chirpy at the moment.
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Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
Asked in 52 of the 131 consecutive instalments of The Guardian's The Q&A harvested on 2026-08-29.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Now. During the period of Covid, I have had the opportunity to rethink and I’ve got a new gift of cherishing now.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 26 September 2020 source ↗
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Edwina Currie
Former British politician, broadcaster and writer
I am happy now.
Adrian Dunbar
Irish actor
My first year of drama school: a sense of freedom, doing something I wanted to do and being with lovely people.
Paul Merson
English footballer and pundit
On holiday in Orlando with my wife, Kate, and kids just before lockdown. I wasn’t drinking or gambling. I was so happy, so at peace with myself – I’d been searching for that for many a year.
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View profile →Acting, when you don’t want to do it or you disagree with everything, is almost like having sex with someone you don’t like. I had one experience like that on stage, in a terrible version of The Cherry Orchard. I put on a wig, dark-coloured contacts and just hoped no one would recognise me.
When I had a bicycle accident when I was 24. I was on a bridge going down; the bicycle broke and I smashed to the ground, face first. I broke my jaw and my teeth, and had to have plastic surgery. It all took half a year and then, funnily enough, I got my first big job – a TV series – with what I thought of then as this big, ugly scar.
Warm and bubbly.
I spend most money on my garden.
My vain side would like to be remembered as someone who did good for others in some way. But I would be happy if my children remembered me.
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