Omid Djalili
British stand-up comedian and actor
I'd edit out all the wrong people I surrounded myself with socially and professionally whom I thought I had to tolerate.
If you could edit your past, what would you change?
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What has been your biggest disappointment?
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What most recently made you cry?
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Repeated verbatim in The Guardian's long-running Saturday Q&A; two publisher-hosted examples establish recurrence.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Not applying myself enough at school.
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I wouldn’t have done the naked centrefold in Cosmopolitan magazine in 1972.
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How little confidence I had in my late teens and early 20s.
Douglas Stuart
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My mother and my brother would still be alive. So much of my life has been coping with the grief of losing them.
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A ballet dancer, but it changed to being an actress when I got put in a school play.
Two days ago, at a family wedding, remembering Richard, my cousin. He was 11 months younger than me and we were brought up like brother and sister for the first four years of our lives. He died of a brain tumour when he was 55.
I wish I could say sorry to my husband, because I couldn’t save him from his dementia.
I spent the earlier part of my life being late for everything, so there was a joke that my tombstone would read The Very Late Patricia Hodge.
The Queen. Her like has not been seen before and I doubt it will ever be again.
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