Pamela Anderson
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When Peta picked me to be on their first Times Square anti-fur billboard.
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Asked in 52 of the 131 consecutive instalments of The Guardian's The Q&A harvested on 2026-08-29.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Right now. I live in the present.
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John Malkovich
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Probably when our children were small, which is not to say I am unhappy now.
Eddie Izzard
British comedian and actress
Living in Bangor, County Down, because my mum was still alive. She died when I was six.
Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen
English interior designer and television personality
This is going to horribly upset my wife, my children and my grandchildren, but it was when I did The Greatest Snowman last year for Channel 4. Being let loose on an Austrian mountainside to build snow sculptures was my happy point, and who knew I’d find an icy G-spot at nearly 58.
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View profile →While tracking wolves in Idaho, we came across a wolf carcass. It was likely the pack had been poisoned in a deliberate act. I am a hunter, but I respect wildlife and I also respect predators.
My wife, Ruth, because she holds the fort, making it possible for me to do what I do.
For being genuine.
The sound of nightingales, but it is the most lovely sound. If someone said it was an elf playing a flute, I would believe them.
In a helicopter crash in Wyoming in 2005. My cameraman broke his back and both legs; the pilot broke his back. The helicopter didn’t catch fire, so I’m still here today.
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