Close-Up: The Hot Seat - Andrew Warner, Expedia

Name: Andrew Warner

Job: Senior marketing director EMEA, Expedia

- You've got five hours left before the world explodes. What do you do?

Invite everyone to the pub and open a tab on my card.

- What's your best joke?

I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize (courtesy of Steven Wright).

- What's your biggest fear?

I have a recurring nightmare that I'll have to resit my GCSE maths exam.

- When did you last cry and why?

When I last walked past Leicester Square Tube station and saw that Aberdeen Angus Steakhouses are still in business.

- Who is your hero?

Peter Benenson, the founder of Amnesty International.

- Name one thing about yourself that few people know.

I once appeared on Blue Peter dressed as Postman Pat.

- What's the worst thing about your job?

The bit between 9 and 11, before anyone can have consumed sufficient cups of tea to deliver work of any consequence.

- What do you see when you look in the mirror?

Normally a story about Cheryl Cole.

- Which historical figure do you most identify with and why?

Joseph Rowntree, because he created wealth to fund a better life for future generations and gave the world the Jelly Baby.

- If you had a trained monkey, what would you make it do?

Become a 30-goal-a-season striker for Norwich City FC.

- If your office was burning down, what object would you save and why?

My travelcard. I'd still need to be able to get home from the post-inferno drinking session.

- Are you happy?

Probably more like Sleepy but taller.

- What would you do if you were invisible for the day?

I would travel on rush-hour trains and administer justice to those people who think it is OK to put their bag on the empty seat next to them when others are standing.

- What's your most evocative childhood memory?

The smell of diesel as a train pulled in to take us on holiday to Devon.

- What belief do you hold most strongly?

There are only two types of people in the world. People who are alright and people who are ****s.

- What's on your iPod most-played list?

The Smiths - Hatful Of Hollow.

- What do you wear in bed?

That sounds like the start of a bad chat-up line.

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