Kim Wilde: What did you want to be when you were growing up?

What did you want to be when you were growing up?

Originally asked

The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

This is a standing question in The Guardian's decades-long The Q&A and also recurs independently in career and life interviews.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Kim Wilde said elsewhere, not written here

A pop star: I loved music from a very young age.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 August 2019 source ↗

Others on this question

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Emma Barnett British broadcaster and journalist

A fishmonger, then a surgeon.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 February 2021 source ↗

Mariella Frostrup

A foreign correspondent.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 November 2023 source ↗

Ashley Jensen Scottish actress and narrator

I did want to be an actor from an early age although I briefly dabbled with the idea of being a vet until I realised you had to stick your hand up a cow’s arse.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 October 2017 source ↗

Harriet Walter English actress

An actor. When I was really young, I wanted to be a fishmonger’s wife.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 December 2017 source ↗

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Question Which living person do you most admire, and why? Values & belief

Greta Thunberg. She has reached into the hearts and minds of people all over the world and woken them up to the terrible impact we are having on our planet. What a fascinating force of nature she is.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 August 2019 source ↗