Rita Ora: If you could edit 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.

Recorded Rita Ora said elsewhere, not written here

That I didn’t think I knew everything.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 August 2015 source ↗

Others on this question

Gregg Wallace English broadcaster and writer

I wouldn’t marry anybody until I met Anna.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 April 2022 source ↗

Burt Reynolds American actor

I wouldn’t have done the naked centrefold in Cosmopolitan magazine in 1972.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 November 2015 source ↗

I’d have reported the tutor who asked me to read an essay to him sitting on the toilet as he lay soaping himself in the bath.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 September 2025 source ↗

Mo Gilligan British comedian

I don’t think I would change anything because it might not have got me here.

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

Getting an honorary ambassadorship from the president of Kosovo in July.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 August 2015 source ↗

I got dropped from two record deals when I was 14 and 17.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 August 2015 source ↗

A garden of my own.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 August 2015 source ↗

Frank Sinatra singing My Way.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 August 2015 source ↗

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