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I’ve been a strong advocate that all my five children should be great swimmers, so you can deduce what my fear is.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 November 2024 source ↗
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What do you fear most?Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
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Jack Whitehall
English comedian, actor, presenter and writer
Turning into my father.
Heights, something happening to my children and Manchester United getting good again (I’m a Man City fan).
Being on my deathbed and realising I’d forgotten to treat each day as the miracle that it is.
Mike Wallace
American journalist
I don’t have any left. I’ve already lost a son. I guess, maybe, that my wife would leave me, but she wouldn’t dare.
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Absolutely nothing.
Thinking that singing makes me fit.
That moment in Bilbao in 2020, when I tried to cross the street and did a pirouette and suffered a dreadful break in my right leg, which means now I have 10 screws and a band in it.
One horrible afternoon in Chicago when I forgot my words in The Marriage of Figaro, in a role I’d sung hundreds of times.
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