The question
If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
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.
I’d swap out a few boyfriends.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 May 2026 source ↗
I would have stopped making records after They Don’t Know.
I would like to come out at 16 or 17, and not 21.
I sent off the letter. I probably made a technical mistake by giving it to a journalist before hearing from the Prime Minister because this journalist was working for a Sunday newspaper and gave it enormous press, and I think quite rightly the Prime Minister was annoyed that I had not given him the opportunity but never mind.
A few haircuts.
Christmas elf at the Rainforest Cafe.
Try not to take yourself too seriously.
A perfect cup of coffee – warm, bittersweet, anxiety-inducing and delicious.
Getting to 39 without having a filling in my teeth.
Endless vomiting. That comes from my emetophobia, which is a huge part of my OCD.
Doing a compulsory standup routine in my first week of drama school.
Adam Lambert, Greg James, Chris Bonington, Carlos Acosta, Kelsey Grammer, Michelle Dockery
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