Kate Humble: Aside from a property, what is the most expensive thing you have bought?

Aside from a property, what is the most expensive thing you have bought?

Originally asked

The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

The Guardian's weekly The Q&A repeatedly uses this standing prompt, with minor contractions and word-order variation.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Kate Humble said elsewhere, not written here

A brilliant hi-tech, low weight tent.

The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 December 2023 source ↗

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Guy Pearce Australian actor

A guitar – a 1959 Gibson 335.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 January 2025 source ↗

Ralph Ineson English actor and narrator

Diamonds for my wife.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 February 2018 source ↗

Melanie Chisholm British pop singer

Holidays. In the Spice Girls, we found ourselves with quite a few quid, so it was lovely to hire a big house in the Caribbean and have friends and family over.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 October 2016 source ↗

David Arquette American actor, producer, & former professional wrestler

I collect old costumes: I have one of Johnny Cash’s, and Liberace’s shoes.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 January 2021 source ↗