The question
How would you sum yourself up in three words?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's weekly The Q&A repeatedly uses this exact standing prompt.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Loving, creative, demanding.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 June 2025 source ↗
Kind, fun and professional.
Short. Fat. Jewish.
Kind, funny, moany – I do love a moan.
Needing order always.
A Biba dress when I really couldn’t afford it. It was every scrap of my money and I’ve never parted with it.
I play Classic FM in the car – emotional music brings me to tears thinking about people I’ve loved and lost.
In school, I was 11, and we had to paint a picture of family life. My painting was held up to the class and I was told it looked like a spider with ink on its feet had walked across the page. It was done so viciously – humiliating.
In a Dagenham factory at 6am, picking soldiers’ greatcoats from wars around the world to sell at the market in Chelsea. I smelled like mothballs, and no one would come near me.
One after the other, thoughts come banging in – and it’s no sleep for you tonight, dearie.
Being let go from Strictly.
Adam Clayton, Brandi Carlile, Rory Stewart, Tom Burke, Miriam Margolyes, Gregory Porter
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