Bobbi Brown: Who alive today do you admire most, and what draws you to them?

The question

Who alive today do you admire most, and what draws you to them?

Originally asked

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

The Guardian's Q&A repeatedly uses this prompt, sometimes dropping 'living' while retaining the same comparative judgment.

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

Bobbi Brown

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

My husband, who always seems to have everything in control and is so consistent.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2024 source ↗

Others on this question

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Bruno Tonioli Italian choreographer

Oprah Winfrey. Considering the cards she was dealt at birth, what she has achieved is quite something.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 April 2023 source ↗

Emilia Fox English actress and presenter

Dawn French, because I am sitting next to her and she says if I don’t say her, she will hurt me.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 October 2018 source ↗

Natalie Imbruglia

Alanis Morissette because, in my earlier career, she was a big influence on me and had a feistiness that you didn’t see much of in women in the industry. Also, she has been very vocal about mental health issues.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 July 2026 source ↗

Laura Kenny English cyclist

Stephen Hawking: what he does is incredible. My nan died of motor neurone disease, which he has.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 January 2017 source ↗