Isla Fisher: If you could edit your past, what would you change?

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

Repeated verbatim in The Guardian's long-running Saturday Q&A; two publisher-hosted examples establish recurrence.

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

Recorded Isla Fisher said elsewhere, not written here

I would have tried that anti-stretch mark cream during pregnancy.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 July 2016 source ↗

Others on this question

There are one or two relationships where I’d see the red flags much earlier.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 March 2026 source ↗

What I studied at college – A-level economics.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 26 April 2025 source ↗

Katherine Parkinson English actor

I wish I hadn’t been a heavy smoker for so many years.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 12 September 2020 source ↗

Ricky Wilson Singer; frontman of Kaiser Chiefs

I might have carried on doing The Voice.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 February 2020 source ↗

When I won my first Oscar. Oh, wait – that was Amy Adams.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 July 2016 source ↗

When I heard the referendum result.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 July 2016 source ↗

David Walliams, for making the transition from comic actor to bestselling kids’ author. I’m not sure I’ll be able to do the same.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 July 2016 source ↗

A small pair of ginger balls.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 July 2016 source ↗

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