Below are the questions the Guardian puts to celebs, my frank answers are below as is a blank version if you wanna take part. Or just answer the ones you're comfortable with

What is your earliest memory?
Maybe being in a small boat in the local park with my grandfather.

Which living person do you most admire, and why?
Brian Blessed, anyone who can pack in all he has and is still going...

What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
Beating myself up.

What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Social intolerance just because you wanna feel good abut yourself.

Property aside, what’s the most expensive thing you’ve bought?
A 1K laptop many moons ago.

What is your most treasured possession?
That ever-growing Predator collection.

What makes you unhappy?
My family.

What do you most dislike about your appearance?
Pretty much all of it.

Who would play you in the film of your life?
It's actually a footballer for the visual lol (don't even ask)

What does love feel like?
Being afraid to hug someone too hard.

What is your favourite word?
Radioactive.

What is your favourite smell?
Rain on the pavement.

What did you want to be when you were growing up?
A writer.

What is the worst thing anyone’s said to you?
Honestly not sure - I take things too personally to start with lol.

What is your guiltiest pleasure?
The fortune I spend on action figures.

What do you owe your parents?
They're two idiots, but one has a heart of gold and the other was technically minded, so I feel like a half-decent mix of the two.

Which living person do you most despise, and why?
My father, there's no logic there whatsoever.

Who would you invite to your dream dinner party?
Just about anyone who's been on QI.

Which words or phrases do you most overuse?
'This is it', when I'm in agreement with someone.

What is the worst job you’ve done?
The current one, though this is a better variation of it at least.

What has been your biggest disappointment?
My family!

What do you consider your greatest achievement?
Rarely giving in to my dark side.

What keeps you awake at night?
These days, not much!

What song would you like played at your funeral?
Not having a funeral, but I might have I'm on Fire playing at the crematorium!

Tell us a secret
The specific line of work I'm in would surprise you.

Some insightful stuff there. I'll have a bash.

What is your earliest memory?
Making a snowman with other kids in nursery. We used half a potato for his nose.

Which living person do you most admire, and why?
Hard one. Probably my old boss. He's a genius, drives nice cars and lives in a nice house. I still find myself thinking what he would do/say in certain situations that come up at work.

What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
All of them but mostly low self-esteem that arises from time to time.

What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Injustice/intolerance.

Property aside, what’s the most expensive thing you’ve bought?
My car. It was £23k brand new. Probably worth £8k now.

What is your most treasured possession?
Don't really have one. Maybe photos. If I lost everything, I'd like to keep my photos as memories.

What makes you unhappy?
Work and debt.

What do you most dislike about your appearance?
All of it.

Who would play you in the film of your life?
Don't think there's anyone suitable.

What does love feel like?
Not sure I could describe it.

What is your favourite word?
Don't have one (I did but have since forgotten it!)

What is your favourite smell?
Petrol. Or the smell in the air before a thunderstorm.

What did you want to be when you were growing up?
Don't know. Maybe a military pilot.

What is the worst thing anyone’s said to you?
Can't remember the precise details but it resulted in me vowing to keep quiet and say little.

What is your guiltiest pleasure?
Having a chocolate bar once a week.

What do you owe your parents?
My career. They both pushed me to study and get to university. My ability to sit down after work and study astounds my other half.

Which living person do you most despise, and why?
My father. Mainly because of the way he treated us as kids.

Who would you invite to your dream dinner party?
Famous 80s cartoon charactsds.

Which words or phrases do you most overuse?
Used to be "fine", then "dude" and "awesome". Now I think it's "thank you kindly".

What is the worst job you’ve done?
Difficult since I've really only ever been a doctor (other than a summer job as a shelf-stacker). Within that job, it was A&E.

What has been your biggest disappointment?
My life. Totally not how I envisioned it would be back when I was a teenager and when I was in my early 20s.

What do you consider your greatest achievement?
Not sure.

What keeps you awake at night?
Lots of things. If it's not worries about work, money or the missus, then it's the insomnia.

What song would you like played at your funeral?
johnny cash. Hurt.

Tell us a secret
Don't have any!

What is your earliest memory?
Seeing a massive pillar of flame from a barbecue on a beach in Spain

Which living person do you most admire, and why?
Has to be Brian Blessed for pretty much the same reasons as mentioned above.

What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
Overeating

What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Arrogance

Property aside, what’s the most expensive thing you’ve bought?
My computer or my camera

What is your most treasured possession?
Personal letters I've received from various people over the years.

What makes you unhappy?
My weight

What do you most dislike about your appearance?
See above

Who would play you in the film of your life?
Someone ginger

What does love feel like?
Too many things to write down here.

What is your favourite word?
Imperium

What is your favourite smell?
Hot tar

What did you want to be when you were growing up?
A cook in the Navy

What is the worst thing anyone’s said to you?
Nothing really stands out

What is your guiltiest pleasure?
A tin of condensed milk and a spoon

What do you owe your parents?
Pretty much everything

Which living person do you most despise, and why?
The head of the division I work at. Arrogant and rude.

Who would you invite to your dream dinner party?
Stephen Fry, David Mitchell and Victoria Corren-Mitchell

Which words or phrases do you most overuse?
No worries

What is the worst job you’ve done?
Assembling foam components

What has been your biggest disappointment?
My repeated failure to control my weight

What do you consider your greatest achievement?
The three months I spent studying in the Netherlands

What keeps you awake at night?
I tend to overanalyse things that are bugging me.

What song would you like played at your funeral?
Soul Asylum - Runaway train

Tell us a secret.
Eh, no

Too much time on your hands? lol

More like wanting to know the answers to some questions for myself.

What is your earliest memory?
Winter of 1963, aged 3, building a snowman in our back garden.

Which living person do you most admire, and why?
I don't really admire anyone.

What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
My ability to procrastinate.

What is the trait you most deplore in others?
People who make assumptions about others.

Property aside, what’s the most expensive thing you’ve bought?
A digital mixing desk that cost £3500 and that was a special half-price offer. Recently stopped working and therefore is now a £3500 door stop.

What is your most treasured possession?
The one thing I'd save in a fire is a pencil sketch of my great uncle George Mercer Dawson by the Pre-Raphaelite artist John Millais. It's the one thing I own that can't be replaced and is worth something to lots of other people more important than myself.

What makes you unhappy?
These days I've learnt not to be unhappy.

What do you most dislike about your appearance?
My face. I've learnt to live with it though.

Who would play you in the film of your life?
TBH I really don't care.

What does love feel like?
Weird.

What is your favourite word?
Ephemeral.

What is your favourite smell?
I don't really have one, but I am quite partial to "New Mac Smell" although I'm sure it's no longer a good as it used to be in the 90s.

What did you want to be when you were growing up?
All the usual things that little boys growing up in the 60s wanted to be - train driver, astronaut. Then I discovered pop music and ever since then I wanted to be a rock star.

What is the worst thing anyone’s said to you?
I stopped worrying about what other people said to me a long long time ago.

What is your guiltiest pleasure?
I don't have any. I'm perfectly happy for others to know what I like (and don't like).

What do you owe your parents?
My independance.

Which living person do you most despise, and why?
There are people I don't like. I just avoid knowing or reading about them. It makes for a stress-free life.

Who would you invite to your dream dinner party?
My very good friends.

Which words or phrases do you most overuse?
There are lots that I am constantly trying to wean myself off. Anything that mentions deities for a start.

What is the worst job you’ve done?
I've only ever had one job so I have nothing to compare it with.

What has been your biggest disappointment?
Not being a rock star.

What do you consider your greatest achievement?
Making it into my 50s.

What keeps you awake at night?
Nothing these days.

What song would you like played at your funeral?
I don't want to have a funeral. Although as I'll be dead it doesn't really bother me one way or another.

Tell us a secret.
Two can keep a secret if one of them is dead.

Okay, I'll play ...

What is your earliest memory?
Being beaten with a belt by my then grandma whilst she held me face down on the floor with her foot on my back.

Which living person do you most admire, and why?
Too many to name really - I admire different people for different things.

What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
I don't really have anything, because if I hated something that I did that much, I wouldn't do it any more.

What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Ignorance / intolerance / knuckle cracking / driving on cats-eyes in the road ...

Property aside, what’s the most expensive thing you’ve bought?
My digital camera.

What is your most treasured possession?
Library of images.

What makes you unhappy?
Hearing my friends are unhappy.

What do you most dislike about your appearance?
Nothing, really.

Who would play you in the film of your life?
Rupert Grint

What does love feel like?
A large slice of warm double-chocolate fudge cake, partly covered by warm chocolate fudge sauce.

What is your favourite word?
Sheesh.

What is your favourite smell?
I am anosmic.

What did you want to be when you were growing up?
Astronaut or stuntman

What is the worst thing anyone’s said to you?
"No"

What is your guiltiest pleasure?
I don't have any, because if I derive pleasure from it then it's not something I'm labelling as 'guilty'.

What do you owe your parents?
My Mum - my life.

Which living person do you most despise, and why?
Oh man, don't be a hater.

Who would you invite to your dream dinner party?
All of my friends, because I don't get to seem them nearly enough.

Which words or phrases do you most overuse?
Dude. Coolio. Okies.

What is the worst job you’ve done?
Shelf stacker at Kwik Save (remember those?!?).

What has been your biggest disappointment?
The job opportunities after graduating university.

What do you consider your greatest achievement?
Making it out of my childhood and being a relitavely well adjusted person from it.

What keeps you awake at night?
Daylight.

What song would you like played at your funeral?
You'll Have Time by William Shatner

Tell us a secret.
Not a chance.

Mark