Edward Enninful
Ghanaian-born English editor and stylist
When I get to the restaurant and don’t see any hot sauce on the table.
What is your greatest fear?
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What does love feel like?
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If you could edit your past, what would you change?
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?
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Which book are you ashamed not to have read?
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Which moment embarrassed you most?
Failure & regret
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.
Being lost and no one wanting to find me.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 January 2024 source ↗
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Running out of options.
Getting to the end and thinking that I haven’t laughed enough.
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My friend Fritha Goodey wouldn’t have committed suicide.
Another actress once said to me, “I’ve told you huge lies to make you feel good about yourself.” I’m not going to say who.
I try too hard not to get things wrong.
Any unread book a friend bought me.
I once walked up to Harriet Walter while she was having lunch on her own because I thought I knew her, and then when I got up to the table I realised I didn’t know her, I just recognised her because she was Harriet Walter.
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