What is your greatest fear?

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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.

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Balloons. I have a big phobia of balloons. Big.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2023 source ↗

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Kevin Rowland British singer
Insanity. I am on a recovery programme – clean from drugs and drink for many years – and if I stopped doing all that stuff I’d go crazy pretty quick and pick up drugs again, because I was a real fucking addict.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 August 2025 source ↗
Heights, something happening to my children and Manchester United getting good again (I’m a Man City fan).
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 August 2025 source ↗

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