Bintou Keita: Aside from a property, what is the most expensive thing you have bought?

The question

Aside from a property, what is the most expensive thing you have bought?

Originally asked

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

The Guardian's weekly The Q&A repeatedly uses this standing prompt, with minor contractions and word-order variation.

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

UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General; head of the UN peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

I have my statement, but I can't deliver [it] because there's something else I have to do before. And in that moment, what came to me was humming, so I did it.

Melissa Fleming, United Nations, 3 February 2025 source ↗

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Hayley Atwell British American actress

Legal advice. It was worth it. Know your rights.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 December 2018 source ↗

Alexa Chung English television presenter

Chanel 2.55 handbag at Heathrow airport during a hangover.

Recorded Rosanna Greenstreet, The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 March 2011 source ↗

Ralph Ineson English actor and narrator

Diamonds for my wife.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 February 2018 source ↗

Ronald Harwood South African playwright and novelist

A Mercedes S Class.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 5 November 2016 source ↗