Craig Charles
English actor
Losing my marbles.
What is your greatest fear?
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Aside from a property, what is the most expensive thing you have bought?
Money & investment
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When were you happiest?
Time & hindsight
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What is the trait you most deplore in others?
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Which moment embarrassed you most?
Failure & regret
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What is the worst thing anyone has said to you?
Failure & regret
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
Identity & self
Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
The exact prompt is fixed in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire and independently sustained in The Guardian's The Q&A over multiple decades.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I’m afraid of the dark.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 November 2025 source ↗
Others on this question
View all 256 →Nuclear holocaust.
To experience the utter powerlessness of locked-in syndrome.
The greatest fear I can remember is coming back from WW II and being amazed that I was more afraid to audition for a job than I was flying 52 missions.
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View profile →A pair of Back to the Future shoes. They were auctioned off for Michael J Fox’s Parkinson’s charity, so I bid and I won. I am a huge fan of the films and if there was ever a pair of shoes I should own, it was those.
On stage with my band.
People who aren’t polite.
I was in Oliver! when I was 10 and I peed myself on stage in front of however many people the Palladium holds. It was the stuff of nightmares.
“You’re not in Busted any more.” I successfully auditioned to be in Busted and then a couple of days later I got a phone call to say that I was no longer needed as they were going to keep it as the three of them. But it ended up being OK.
I’m quite stubborn.
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