Oti Mabuse: When were you happiest?

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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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Recorded Oti Mabuse said elsewhere, not written here

When I realised that I was meant to be a dancer, aged 19.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 July 2019 source ↗

Others on this question

Kevin Pietersen English cricketer

With no shoes on in the African bush with my family.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 June 2019 source ↗

The birth of my children.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, November 2022 source ↗

Jesse Jackson American minister, activist and politician

In college, meeting my wife and then having our first child, and marching together to bring down the walls of Jim Crow.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 April 2012 source ↗

Ed Harris American actor and director

The day our daughter was born, or maybe fishing on the Colorado river with my wife and brother and his buddy Earl.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 August 2007 source ↗

Too much energy.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 July 2019 source ↗

I couldn’t ask for anything else. I am super, super happy.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 July 2019 source ↗

A paediatrician, then I was like, I can’t dissect frogs! Then I fell in love with making things and understanding how things work.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 July 2019 source ↗

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