What is the worst thing anyone has said to you?
Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
A fixed Guardian Q&A prompt asked directly across respondents and years.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
A lady came up to me in Tesco last year and said, “Excuse me, but didn’t you used to be Roger McGough?”
The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 January 2026 source ↗