What did you want to be when you were growing up?

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

This is a standing question in The Guardian's decades-long The Q&A and also recurs independently in career and life interviews.

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

Recorded Fay Ripley said elsewhere, not written here
Donny Osmond’s wife. Still do.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 26 November 2022 source ↗

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Emilia Fox English actress and presenter
A cellist, inspired by my mum and dad’s friendship with Jacqueline du Pré, and seeing a documentary about her.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 October 2018 source ↗
Mo Farah British track and field athlete
A mechanic when I was a little kid, and then, when I came to the UK, I wanted to play professional football.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 April 2019 source ↗

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