We took one look at Vogue’s profile series, ‘73 Questions’, and thought: wow, this is exactly 50% as good as it could be. So, we decided to launch our own iconic profile series: 146 Questions. Our other thought was that those profiles go on a bit, so we decided we’d give our star exactly 146 seconds in which to answer them. Given the star power that our friends at Condé Nast can wield, we knew we had to think big. Who’s the biggest celebrity we could fit into our pages? How big could we go? Who’s the biggest of the big? And who’s bigger than them?
Step forward, Adebayo Akinfenwa – the Beast; six-foot-one, 16 stone, the strongest and most charismatic man in professional football. In the wake of his retirement after 22 years in the game, and on the heels of his Amazon Prime biography, Beast Mode On, Akinfenwa was kind enough to spend just under two-and-a-half minutes of his time attempting to answer all 146 of our questions.
Below are the ones he answered and, in the interests of journalistic integrity, a full list of those which – due to time constraints – he could not.
1. What is your favourite day of the week? Saturday.
2. What is your least favourite day of the week? Sunday. No, that’s a lie! I like Sunday. Least favourite day of
the week is Tuesday.
3. What car did your dad last own? Snap. Oh God. I bought it for him as well. I think it’s a Toyota, I’m gonna get that wrong, but let’s say Toyota.
4. To the best of your knowledge, who killed JFK? Ninjas.
5. Which of The Beatles could you beat in a fight? Which of the Beatles? All of them! TOGETHER.
