Rick Astley: What has been your biggest disappointment? — FLAPSS

What has been your biggest disappointment?

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Fame. The upside is not worth the downside – you can’t turn fame on and off, and have privacy.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 October 2018 source ↗

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Donna Tartt American novelist and writer

I was very disappointed when I realised I was never going to be an Olympic gymnast, but that was a long time ago.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 26 October 2013 source ↗

Cybill Shepherd American actress and former model

Not doing more movies.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 June 2008 source ↗

Pamela Anderson Canadian-American actress and model

That after I collected countless signatures on a petition, the Queen's Guard still wear bearskin hats.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 January 2008 source ↗

Lucy Worsley English historian

That I am not a chorus girl in a West End musical.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 May 2017 source ↗

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Question How close have you come to death? Death & what remains

In the 1990s in New Jersey, being driven to a radio station early one morning. Our driver fell asleep and we were on the other side of a dual carriageway with cars coming at us. We all screamed and banged on the seat, and he woke up and pulled the car back across.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 October 2018 source ↗

Question Who most deserves an apology from you, and why? Failure & regret

My wife, because she manages me and sometimes there isn’t time for niceties and we have to talk in a language that isn’t very marriage-like.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 October 2018 source ↗

Question What song would you like played at your funeral? Death & what remains

I’d like to go all melodramatic and have Vide cor Meum by Patrick Cassidy from Kingdom Of Heaven. It’s also in another Ridley Scott movie, Hannibal. It’s an operatic piece and absolutely amazing. Obviously Ridley Scott thinks so, too..

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 October 2018 source ↗

Question If you had only one day left to live, how would you spend it — and what would you deliberately avoid doing? Death & what remains

I think I’d just like to be chilling out really, so it’s like real summer family holidays where the most important things to decide are what are you going to have for breakfast, what are you going to have for lunch, what beach are you going to, and what are you going to have for dinner.

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Question What is the worst job you have done? Craft & work

I haven’t really had a job. I used to work at my dad’s garden centre in my late teens, but it was just messing around.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 October 2018 source ↗

Question What did you want to be when you were growing up? Identity & self

When I was about 14 and got my first drum kit, I wanted to be a drummer in a band like the Police.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 October 2018 source ↗

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