Max Whitlock
English artistic gymnast
Standing on the podium in Rio: winning a gold medal for the pommel was 100% the pinnacle of my career.
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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.
Phoning my dad to tell him we’d won the Edinburgh Perrier award with The League Of Gentlemen in 1997.
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Martin Freeman
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When I am in Italy with the family, not thinking about work.
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When I was a child and a teenager, before I got discovered.
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I'm nearly always happy.
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View profile →Nothing – haven’t you heard of the butterfly effect? I could find myself still collecting glasses in Charnock Richard while Donald Sutherland would be enjoying my life.
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