Trevor McDonald
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As a young child in the West Indies and having fun with my friends, playing sport and hanging about.
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Asked in 52 of the 131 consecutive instalments of The Guardian's The Q&A harvested on 2026-08-29.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I’ll be at my happiest today, and probably my gloomiest at some point today, too.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 December 2017 source ↗
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Professionally, it has to be when I got my third star.
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At the birth of my son, Joel, and then equally, last June, when my first grandchild, Rory, was born.
The night my daughter was born, New York, December 29, 1997. After she emerged and I held her in the palm of my hand, I walked around Manhattan in a stupor of happiness.
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An actor. Then I grew out of that and became one by default. Or sort of one: “Not really an actor”, said Michael Billington.
The next morning. It rarely turns out as bad as I think it’s going to be.
Adolescent love feels like exquisite self-indulgence. Long-term love feels like a warm bath that needs a trickle of extra hot water every now and then.
Sorry, I’m British and middle class, so I’ve already apologised to virtually everybody I have ever met.
As a charming, helpful, solicitous, generous, loving, carefree and constantly funny companion, lover and father. Some hope of that.
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