Richard Coles: When were you happiest?

Originally asked

The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

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.

Recorded Richard Coles said elsewhere, not written here

Technically, Ibiza 1990, because of the amount of ecstasy I’d taken.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 June 2023 source ↗

Others on this question

Joseph Fiennes English actor

Growing up in the 70s, in the country in England and Ireland.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 October 2008 source ↗

Griff Rhys Jones British actor and comedian

I’ll be at my happiest today, and probably my gloomiest at some point today, too.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 December 2017 source ↗

Steffi Graf German tennis player

My happiness lives in the present. It's my life this morning, this evening, with Andre, my kids.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 June 2013 source ↗

Omid Djalili British stand-up comedian and actor

When my bowels move freely and without complications.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 August 2010 source ↗