The question
As a child, what career or life did you imagine for yourself?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.
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I wanted to be in the circus.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 December 2023 source ↗
My mother says I had a plan to be a farmer’s wife and a violinist, going to concerts at the Royal Albert Hall in my tractor.
A magazine editor.
An actor. I watched a lot of TV because we lived in the countryside and the weather was so bad.
A sailor. I wanted to be in the Royal Navy like my grandad.
The very first day that I was filming Top Gear, for which I was so unqualified because I’d only ever driven a Fiat Uno. I got into a DB7 Vantage Volante outside the Aston Martin factory, put my foot on the accelerator and bunny-hopped across the gravel because I’d forgotten to take the handbrake off.
Panic and euphoria.
The first time I stood on top of the hill that I now live on, in 2007.
The worms get to feast.
“We’d love you to be on the cover of our magazine and we’ll give you a makeover.”
My husband, Ludo, for not really getting why war movies are fun to watch.
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