The question
What do you fear most?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.
Losing my virginity.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2021 source ↗
A bad death . . . fast or slow.
To be eaten by a shark.
It was reading out loud, but no longer. (I am dyslexic.) I was encouraged by my husband to do a speech for the Royal National Institute of Blind People, which helped me gain my confidence, and the fear disappeared.
Heights. For Children in Need, I had to abseil off the Orbit in the Olympic Park. It was the most terrifying thing I’ve done.
A picnic in my garden in Kerdalo, Brittany.
I never let it go.
Weirdly enough, in Portugal during confinement.
Intolerance, which is never far from stupidity.
Warren Buffett, Keith McNally, Martha Stewart, Bobbi Brown, Ina Garten, Gino D'Acampo
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