Christian Louboutin: When were you happiest?

When were you happiest?

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

Asked in 52 of the 131 consecutive instalments of The Guardian's The Q&A harvested on 2026-08-29.

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

Recorded Christian Louboutin said elsewhere, not written here

Weirdly enough, in Portugal during confinement.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2021 source ↗

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Julie Andrews English actress, singer and author

In London. When Blake [Edwards, her husband since 1969] made me laugh so much I wept. Blake says I slept with a smile.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2008 source ↗

Simon Le Bon English singer

I was very happy to be alive when I surfaced after my yacht, Drum, capsized in the Fastnet Race in 1985. I was in an air pocket for 40 minutes, and had to take off my long johns to be able to surface.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 12 September 2015 source ↗

Russell Tovey English actor

Being an uncle brings me utter joy.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 October 2010 source ↗

Prue Leith South African-British chef, broadcaster, and writer

In my 40s: I had two children young enough to think their parents wonderful, my business was booming, I was happily married and living in the Cotswolds with a veg garden and ponies in the paddock. Who could not be happy?

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 May 2012 source ↗