Roland Mouret
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When I am doing things that I feel I am not obliged to do.
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Asked in 52 of the 131 consecutive instalments of The Guardian's The Q&A harvested on 2026-08-29.
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I was happiest in every aspect of my life in the 1990s, when I was married to Paddy [King, a management consultant] and we had the two children and my mum lived with us, and Countdown was the biggest show on Channel 4.
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On stage. Always on stage. God that’s depressing, isn’t it?
Kelly Macdonald
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My wedding day. I had a sore face from laughing and smiling so much. Other than that, I am the happiest I've been in my life now.
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A fighter pilot.
My aeroplane, a Diamond DA42. It’s a twin-engine aircraft and I bought her brand new to fly around the world solo. Very sadly my mum was diagnosed with terminal cancer about six weeks before I was due to take off, in May 2017, and she died early June. After that, I lost interest in doing it.
Living in a campervan for a week with Timmy Mallett for a children’s TV show about 40 years ago.
Like I would die for them in a nanosecond.
There are one or two relationships where I’d see the red flags much earlier.
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