Jack Whitehall
English comedian, actor, presenter and writer
Turning into my father.
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Which moment embarrassed you most?
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What did you want to be when you were growing up?
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What do you consider your greatest achievement?
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If you could edit your past, what would you change?
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What single thing would improve the quality of your life?
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Who most deserves an apology from you, and why?
Failure & regret
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.
Totalitarianism in Europe.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 September 2025 source ↗
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Pauline McLynn
Irish character actress and author
Not being able to breathe – I get very panicky at the thought.
Warren Buffett
Chairman and chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway, 1970–2025
And now, you've got nine countries, including, you know, a guy in North Korea. I mean, and there will be, something will happen. And we worried enormously about it when there were two. And we had perfectly, we had really pretty sane leaders in Kennedy and Khrushchev. You know, I mean, you were not dealing with unstable people or anything like that.
Recorded
Becky Quick, CNBC “Squawk Box”, recorded in Omaha; CNBC's own transcript of its own broadcast, 31 March 2026
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Felicity Jones
British actress
Not enough food in the fridge.
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View profile →An earthquake in Peru forced me and a young man into the street, where he had to introduce me to his family at three in the morning.
The Doctor in Doctor Who. I still do.
Getting elected as MP for the Rhondda in 2001 despite everyone saying I was too “exotic” or “flamboyant”, ie gay.
I’d have reported the tutor who asked me to read an essay to him sitting on the toilet as he lay soaping himself in the bath.
A dog, though my husband would prefer a cat.
Mum, because I never really knew how to cope with her alcoholism.
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