Jodie Whittaker: If you could edit your past, what would you change?

Originally asked

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 Jodie Whittaker said elsewhere, not written here

Getting my tongue pierced aged 15, when I had train-track braces on both my top and bottom teeth. Huge error.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 September 2018 source ↗

Others on this question

My penchant for having just one too many.

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

The years of self-doubt.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 April 2025 source ↗

Charlotte Church Welsh singer-songwriter and actress

Trusting some men.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 July 2022 source ↗

Ian McEwan British novelist and screenwriter

To have grown up with my siblings. They were at least 10 years older than me.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 August 2018 source ↗

Working in a soap factory in Huddersfield. I was in my late teens, so I was basically hungover every day.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 September 2018 source ↗

My friendships.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 September 2018 source ↗

A tumble dryer.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 September 2018 source ↗

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