The question
What most recently moved you to tears?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
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The Strictly Come Dancing final almost destroyed me. I was howling all the way through – John and Johannes and then Rose and Giovanni. Oh my God.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 5 February 2022 source ↗
At the Olympics, after my floor gold medal.
I cried recently, thinking about my late wife.
Yesterday, at my stepsister’s funeral. She was 78, an actor, and died of cancer.
I cry all the time in front of the telly. I was doing Gogglebox with Julian Clary recently and I cried watching The Piano.
It would have been lovely to have grown up in private like a lot of my friends.
My biggest disappointment is always myself. That’s my Catholic upbringing.
There are different flavours of happy, but I think my favourite is the quiet contentment when several generations of family are sitting together watching a crowd-pleaser like Harry Potter on the telly.
I’d rather be enjoyed while I am still here.
I wanted to be like my dad, who was an academic, because he had an office packed full of books, always had loud music on, and seemed to get to do what he wanted.
A caravan. I was brought up going on caravan holidays – but we quickly realised that a double-axle caravan was too much of a commitment and sold it.
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