Favourite book. Of all time and recently?
My favourite book of all time is The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga. More recently, I really enjoyed My Body by Emily Ratajkowski and How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney.
Favourite film. Of all time and recently?
I’m a big fan of horror. My favourite film of all time is The Exorcist (1973) and more recently it’s Late Night with the Devil (2023).
Favourite series. Of all time and recently?
Of all time it’s Sex and the City (the original. And Just Like That doesn’t exist to me). More recently, Adolescence.
What is the most random thing you’ve ordered online?
A Korean skincare collagen wrap mask.
What is the last thing on your phone that you took a screenshot of?
It was a joke tweet about Donald Trump’s alleged relations with Bill Clinton to share with my friends.
What app do you spend the most time on?
X (unfortunately).
What’s your favourite piece of trivia?
Grass emits a chemical when it’s being cut as a distress signal to other plant forms. So the smell of freshly cut grass is functionally the smell of the grass screaming.
What’s the weirdest superstition you secretly believe in?
If you talk about your plans before you’ve set them into motion you risk jinxing them.
If you could relive one specific experience, what would it be?
The first time I went on a solo vacation, which was a Contiki trip to Vietnam. It was both exciting and scary to be on the other side of the world, away from my family for the first time.
Window seat or aisle seat?
Window seat.
If you could live as someone else for the day, who would it be and why?
Rihanna, so I could have access to her money and her wardrobe.
Career highlight?
Travelling to New York City for the first time to attend a meeting at the UN in 2022.
What are people always surprised to learn about you?
That I’m socially awkward.
You’ve just been arrested. What crime were you likely to have committed?
Stealing clothes from Rihanna’s wardrobe.
If you weren’t working in your current role, what industry would you be in?
I’d probably be an editor at a publishing company and publish fiction.
What is the most-worn item in your wardrobe?
My Doc Martens.
What’s the best advice you’ve received?
To use incognito mode when buying tickets and booking hotel stays so the site doesn’t store cookies and start raising the prices every time I return to it.
Name one person you admire?
Toni Morrison.
What’s your current guilty pleasure?
Terrible Netflix reality shows. I’m a sucker for Love is Blind.