Jason Manford
English comedian and singer
That I go to the gym a couple of times a week, yet I am unfit and overweight.
What has been your biggest disappointment?
Question
What does love feel like?
Relationships
Question
What did you want to be when you were growing up?
Identity & self
Question
What single thing would improve the quality of your life?
Daily life
Question
What do you consider your greatest achievement?
Craft & work
Question
Aside from a property, what is the most expensive thing you have bought?
Money & investment
Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
This exact question recurs in The Guardian's institutional Q&A pool.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
The rejection that I have received from my own people.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 January 2021 source ↗
Others on this question
View all 369 →
John Bishop
English comedian and actor
When I didn't get selected for the county football team when I was 15.
My wife and I were meant to meet Frank Sinatra before he went on stage in Hamburg. But there was a taxi-drivers’ strike and we were too late.
Neneh Cherry
Swedish singer
Politics, friends and lovers.
More from Billy Porter
View profile →I’m trying to figure out how to receive unconditional love. That’s hard to do when you’ve never really had it, so I’m trying to navigate that.
The male Whitney Houston.
A home. I just bought one on Long Island. My first piece of property.
Holding on to my sanity.
I bought my BMW in 2014 with cash, because I was bankrupt and had no credit. But I was in Kinky Boots, so I was finally making some money.
More on failure & regret
- Who most deserves an apology from you, and why? 209 answers
- If you could edit your past, what would you change? 205 answers
- What is the worst thing anyone has said to you? 124 answers
- Which moment embarrassed you most? 124 answers
- How has a failure, or apparent failure, set you up for later success? Do you have a favourite failure? 77 answers
- What is the hardest thing that has happened to you, and what did you carry out of it? 39 answers
Also answered this
David Lynch, Cybill Shepherd, Archie Panjabi, Bob Hoskins, Cynthia Nixon, Rupert Graves
Search the directory for somebody in particular.
Explore further
- All failure & regret questions
- The The Q&A questionnaire — 25 questions from the same format
- Explore the archive — by field, age, era, and subject