Jack Whitehall
English comedian, actor, presenter and writer
Turning into my father.
What is your greatest fear?
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What did you want to be when you were growing up?
Identity & self
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When were you happiest?
Time & hindsight
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What is the worst job you have done?
Craft & work
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What do you consider your greatest achievement?
Craft & work
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Which moment embarrassed you most?
Failure & regret
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What does love feel like?
Relationships
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.
Not continuing to question.
Rosanna Greenstreet, The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 July 2017 source ↗
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Tim Peake
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Running out of options.
Ephraim Asili
Filmmaker, Educator, and DJ
My fear, my anxiety, that I’m grappling with in this film, is that if we’re not able to struggle with the domestic things
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View profile →I just thought I was going to go into graphics and painting, which is what I wanted to do.
When my wife Lorraine and I got together in 1990. We were in a play at the Royal Exchange theatre in Manchester when we suddenly realised we were falling in love.
Putting ball bearings into Mum roll-on deodorant bottles in a factory, one summer when I was 17.
Being the father of three children.
There have been frequent occasions when I have woken up on the tube to find people taking pictures of me.
Strength, comfort, joy and passion.
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