Jennifer Hudson
American singer and actress
Around the holidays, because I get to spend them with family and friends.
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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.
Probably when I finish a race.
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Margaret Atwood
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Can't pick and choose, it's bad luck.
Louis Walsh
Irish music manager and television personality
I’m always happy. Ask Simon Cowell: he says if I had a tail, I’d wag it.
Five to 10, when I was just playing out and I didn’t realise I was a girl. Before my boobs came in, basically.
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I try not to have disappointments, because a lot of the bad things that happen in life teach you things.
When I was five and the doctors walked in and said to my mum: “I am not sure if you will be taking him home.”
A fast Golf car. I got rid of it after about six months because it kept depreciating in value.
David Beckham. He was my idol growing up and I met him in 2000, just before the England game against Romania.
Wanting to share everything.
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