Walking into a room filled with friends and family singing “Happy Birthday” to me and I am completely naked.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, February 2014 source ↗
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What is the trait you most deplore in others?
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Which living person do you most admire, and why?
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Who most deserves an apology from you, and why?
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What most recently made you cry?
Identity & self
Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
The exact prompt is fixed in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire and independently sustained in The Guardian's The Q&A over multiple decades.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Losing one of my children, as there is no greater loss.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, October 2024 source ↗
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Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, February 2020 source ↗
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The loss of a child.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2018 source ↗
Edward Enninful
Ghanaian-born English editor and stylist
When I get to the restaurant and don’t see any hot sauce on the table.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 December 2022 source ↗
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View profile →Cruelty. I don’t see the point.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, October 2024 source ↗
Every time one of my kids was born and I knew that they were healthy.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 January 2016 source ↗
President Zelenskyy.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, October 2024 source ↗
My late wife – she died of cancer. We tried everything we could do to save her. I wish that I could have done more and that I could have been with her at the moment she passed away. I couldn’t be in that room, because I knew it would be so devastating that I wouldn’t be able to take care of the kids after.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 January 2016 source ↗
A meal alfresco with people I love.
Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 15 October 2024 source ↗
I cried recently, thinking about my late wife.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 January 2016 source ↗
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