Which living person do you most admire, and why?

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

The Guardian's Q&A repeatedly uses this prompt, sometimes dropping 'living' while retaining the same comparative judgment.

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

Recorded Marianne Faithfull said elsewhere, not written here
Right now, PJ Harvey.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 April 2011 source ↗

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Tess Daly English television presenter
Bruce Forsyth, because not only is he the most talented showman, he is the most generous individual.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 December 2016 source ↗
Philip Treacy Irish-born haute couture milliner
The Queen, because she's kept hats alive in the imagination of people all over the world.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 August 2014 source ↗
Denise Welch
My husband, Lincoln, for getting sober with me. He turned his own life around to turn mine around. We didn’t do AA, we anchored each other.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 December 2023 source ↗
Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen English interior designer and television personality
The missus. She is the glamour mamma mia at the top of our feudal pyramid. We all live together, so she’s a full-time grandmother and rules the roost. How she steered us through lockdown was extraordinary.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 October 2022 source ↗

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I’d like to see all my friends. I would have my breakfast and then I would go to Ireland and see my friends – Frank McGuinness, Penny and Desmond Guinness…all those people. I would have lunch in the castle with Penny and Desmond and maybe some other people, then in the afternoon I would go to New York and do the same thing.
Recorded Clash, Swan Song, 11 March 2011 source ↗

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