Stephen Fry
Actor, writer and broadcaster
Being found out.
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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What has been your biggest disappointment?
Failure & regret
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What is the worst job you have done?
Craft & work
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What most recently made you cry?
Identity & self
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What would you like to be remembered for?
Death & what remains
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When were you happiest?
Time & hindsight
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.
Dying in a plane crash and having somebody else get top billing.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 June 2008 source ↗
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Mike Wallace
American journalist
I don’t have any left. I’ve already lost a son. I guess, maybe, that my wife would leave me, but she wouldn’t dare.
Gino D'Acampo
Italian-British celebrity chef and media personality
Overcooking pasta for my Italian family in Napoli – they would kill me.
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Not doing more movies.
A movie called The Return that was about cows from outer space.
Yesterday: my old dog, Kim, has cancer, and I have to let him die now.
My epitaph says: 'We'll make this a comedy yet.' I've already planned it.
Visiting my children at college. I don't stay long, because their lives are so busy - the way they should be.
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