David Hasselhoff: If you could edit your past, what would you change?

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 David Hasselhoff said elsewhere, not written here

My drinking habits.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 April 2009 source ↗

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Adam Lambert American singer

I would try to work on being able to trust people more easily.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 February 2023 source ↗

Krishnan Guru-Murthy British journalist

I’d have been there on the spot for every major news story I’ve talked about in the studio, at the time it happened.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 January 2021 source ↗

Kevin Rowland British singer

I’d have stuck with the original Dexys Midnight Runners look we started in 1978, which became known as the New Romantic look a couple of years later. Our management and record label talked us out of it. Later, Duran Duran and Spandau came out with that look and that made us look old-fashioned.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 August 2025 source ↗

Ralf Little English actor, writer, former semi-professional footballer