Nick Grimshaw: What did you want to be when you were growing up?

Originally asked

The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

This is a standing question in The Guardian's decades-long The Q&A and also recurs independently in career and life interviews.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Nick Grimshaw said elsewhere, not written here

Genuinely, the host of Radio 1’s Breakfast Show.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 June 2017 source ↗

Others on this question

Clive Myrie British journalist, newsreader, and presenter

A tennis player.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 June 2024 source ↗

A comedian, and I may have achieved that.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 December 2024 source ↗

Paul Whitehouse Welsh comedian

A professional footballer.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 June 2018 source ↗

Gareth Bale Welsh footballer

I just wanted to fulfil my potential.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 August 2021 source ↗

My mum. I just got back off holiday with her and we had the most fun. She’s game for whatever.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 June 2017 source ↗

A breakfast show that starts at noon.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 June 2017 source ↗

When I was doing A-levels, I worked in a factory that made homework diaries, which was fine until they banned talking and the radio.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 June 2017 source ↗

A table that used to belong to David Bowie: it was £13,000.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 June 2017 source ↗

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