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Asked in 52 of the 131 consecutive instalments of The Guardian's The Q&A harvested on 2026-08-29.
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When my mother was alive. She passed away 14 years ago.
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Nadiya Hussain
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My children’s births, and when I won the Bake Off.
Jason Derulo
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When my son Jason King Derulo was born.
My first payday as a professional actor, knowing this was the beginning of the rest of my life, and the day my daughter told me I wasn’t the worst dad in the world.
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To anyone I’ve hurt unintentionally.
Any song by Donny Hathaway.
As someone who cared about others.
Doing the bins while working for McDonald’s in west Ealing.
When I realised I wasn’t going to make it as a singer-songwriter when I was about 25.
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