When were you happiest?

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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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Recorded Paul Merson said elsewhere, not written here
On holiday in Orlando with my wife, Kate, and kids just before lockdown. I wasn’t drinking or gambling. I was so happy, so at peace with myself – I’d been searching for that for many a year.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 January 2023 source ↗

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Don Warrington British actor
When I lived with my grandmother in Trinidad, before I came to England to live with my mother in Newcastle at the age of seven.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 February 2022 source ↗
Donny Osmond American singer, dancer, actor, television host
In 1971, I was sitting in a hotel room in London and there was a television chat show going on, debating whether Donny Osmond should be deported because of the chaos he was wreaking. And while I was watching this, there were fans on the street below, chanting my name. I was 13 and thought, “Does it get any better than this?”
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 July 2016 source ↗

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