Four issues ago, we shocked the world with an interview format like no other – well, quite like one other, but as we continue to insist, twice as good and twice as prestigious as Vogue’s puny ‘73 Questions’. Our last subject, gargantuan goal machine Adebayo Akinfenwa, set a pretty high bar for both quality and quantity, clearing through 12 of our impertinent questions in the allotted 146 seconds he had to answer them. Can the Beast be beaten?
Step forward, our latest contestant: Dolly Alderton. Speaking to us amid a hectic publicity schedule for her latest novel, Dolly was kind enough to give up just over two and a half minutes of her time. Sadly, we were stupid enough to waste that time with a sparkling new set of 146 questions.
- Introduce yourself, in a word. Lush.
- How are you? Stressed out because I just cannot operate my iPhone, and there’s been a massive drama with the iPhone iCloud backups and I just cannot believe that my entire life has become dependent on this one device and I feel like I’m in a toxic co-dependent relationship with it that I never agreed to.
- Who is your favourite Spice Girl? Ginger.
- Who is your favourite England manager? I literally could just name any man’s name. They’re usually two first names, so I’m going to guess one, like: Gareth John.
- Who is your favourite Bond? Sean Connery.
- What’s your favourite train line? The First Great Western, although I’ll never forgive them for removing the buffet carriage.
