Mel Giedroyc
British actress and comedian
If you think that you have one, then you’re a bit of a prat, aren’t you?
What do you consider your greatest achievement?
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What would you like to be remembered for?
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What has been your biggest disappointment?
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What does love feel like?
Relationships
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Aside from a property, what is the most expensive thing you have bought?
Money & investment
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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I was the subject of a Celeb cartoon in Private Eye. I’ve a copy hanging in the downstairs toilet.
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Desmond Tutu
Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town; chair of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission; Nobel Peace Prize, 1984
One moment, Nelson Mandela is in jail, and the next moment, he is walking, a free man. One moment, we are shackled as the oppressed of apartheid; the next, we are voting for the very first time. I was 63 when I voted for the first time in my life in the country of my birth. Nelson Mandela was 76 years of age. But it happened, it happened. It happened partly because the international community supported us. People prayed for us. People demonstrated on our behalf, especially young people. Students at universities and college campuses used to sit out in the baking sunshine to force their institutions to divest and the miracle happened. We became free because we were helped and we want to say a big “thank you” to the world. And, you can become free nonviolently.
James Dyson
British inventor and businessman
Creating jobs and opportunities for thousands of people.
Gemma Whelan
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Recovering from anorexia.
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Kindness, security, being at home.
My glasses. They were more than a grand.
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