Fay Ripley
English actress, television presenter, cookbook author
Spiders, needles, blood, pain and breaking wind in public.
What is your greatest fear?
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Aside from a property, what is the most expensive thing you have bought?
Money & investment
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What do you consider your greatest achievement?
Craft & work
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Which living person do you most admire, and why?
Values & belief
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What single thing would improve the quality of your life?
Daily life
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What is the worst thing anyone has said to you?
Failure & regret
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What is the most important lesson life has taught you?
Time & hindsight
Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
The exact prompt is fixed in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire and independently sustained in The Guardian's The Q&A over multiple decades.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Wasting my life.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 July 2023 source ↗
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Neil Patrick Harris
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That it all goes away and never comes back.
Yo-Yo Ma
Cellist
Very large bugs.
More from Jason Manford
View profile →When I finished the musical Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, I bought a replica of the car. It’s in my front garden, surrounded by a lovely wildflower meadow, and people stop to look at it.
Being able to buy my parents a house.
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. It doesn’t seem anyone has a bad word to say about him. They should let him be president – of the world. We had a brief Twitter chat, and I printed the tweets out and put them on my office wall.
An improvement in the weather in this country.
Someone once said online that they hated me so much they wanted to stab me with a spoon. A knife’s easy, but a spoon – that takes real hatred.
That there are more important things than being right.
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