Hayley Squires: What did you want to be when you were growing up?

What did you want to be when you were growing up?

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.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Hayley Squires said elsewhere, not written here

I wanted my own ice-cream van and to be a lollipop lady.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 April 2020 source ↗

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Jess Phillips British politician

The prime minister.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 April 2018 source ↗

Steve Pemberton British actor and comedian

What I am now, but with a better singing voice.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 May 2019 source ↗

James Blunt Singer, songwriter and musician

A lawyer. I did work experience and was sent to the public gallery at the high court. The man in the dock was a 50-year-old accused of buggering a cat on the Metropolitan line. I decided to become a musician instead.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 November 2021 source ↗

Nick Grimshaw English television and radio presenter

Genuinely, the host of Radio 1’s Breakfast Show.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 June 2017 source ↗

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I worked in a call centre. I would go clubbing on a Saturday with my brother and my mates, get home for five or six in the morning, and then have to be at work at 8am.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 April 2020 source ↗