Ruby Wax has never been shy when it comes to expressing her opinion and is never to scared to ask celebrities those questions we all want to ask. Despite suffering from an awful cold- the gossip queen herself chatted to Female First about Britney Spears, Scientology and the rise of the new girl flu.Born in Chicago, Ruby moved to the UK to study at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. Her career in comedy acting came when she became friends with Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders and worked with them on Girls on Top and Absolutely Fabulous.Ruby is most famous for her popular Ruby Meets.. documentary series during which she met the likes of Imelda Marcos, OJ Simpson and Goldie Hawn.
Ruby, you've obviously interviewed a lot of famous people during your career, who was your favourite person to interview?
Ruby: Oh my favourite? Imelda Marcos, remember her?
Did she have as many shoes as everyone thinks?
R: Yeah, she began her new collection when I met her. But they were really cheap, you know the kind you get at WalMart? What's that called here, Asda? They were really cheap and junky. So you too could have 10,000 for $29.99. They were gross. So her country wasn't starving because of her shoes.
Is there anyone you would really love to interview?
R:Well I don't do that now, I've left that to the Graham Norton's, the great and the good. But I'd personally like to meet Bill Clinton but not for interview reasons. Maybe when I don't have a cold - I don't want to pass on those germs.
Speaking of Bill Clinton, we're obviously seeing the Presidential race going on at the moment, do you think we're likely to see the first female or black President?
R: I'll go for the other one, not the woman. I think he's interesting but I think America's too stupid to understand that. I think our brains have wilted to liquid. We're going to go for the Republican to make sure we've got a cowboy in the seat. Or a Mormon. Somebody to whip our hinies.
You're working as an agony aunt for the Telegraph at the moment, what advice would you give to someone like Britney Spears?
R: Umm, well I don't know what's wrong with her but I'd say a lobotomy. The severing of the brain and starting again. Don't you think we should start again at the very beginning?
We've heard in the news this week about Tom Cruise possibly being the head of Scientology. What advice would you give to Katie Holmes if she were to write in to you?
R: Run! Wait for the mothership to come through.
No, the mothership is the one that took Ron Hubbard away in the first place. Don't wait for the mothership. If you see the mothership really change your identity quickly. It's only going to end in tears, a cult never has a happy ending does it?Would you ever consider taking up scientology?
R: If any of them are listening, yes I would. I think it's a deeply meaningful thing...and getting £100,000 to say that is very worth it..(whispers) you know we can't really say anything to offend them They will come after us. I would rather have the flu.
Is there anything else you're up to at the minute?
R: Oh, I'm doing a sitcom in Kenya. I know it's the place with the war. Before that we were doing it because it was a safe place and it was about wartorn countries and now we've got the real thing going on. I play a real bitch of a war correspondent. Her name is - what's her name again? Candida.
And so that's filmed in Keyna? Were you there when any of the trouble was going on?
R: No, I'm going soon. So if you don't hear from me again you'll know the last thing I did in my career was talk about Lemsip Max.
You're working with Lemsip at the moment about this new girl flu theory. What is girl flu?
R: Well I personally don't know, but I think the point is that we're sick of hearing about man flu and how sick they are, and we're just the handmaidens, handing them tissues with our teeth. And now Lemsip have done research and found out that one third of men, get this, claim they're already seen the first indications of girly flu in their partners. Isn't that right Trev?
(Trev is the expert from Lemsip)
Trev: Absolutely.
R: Oh, listen to that voice, it's all perky and I need a Kleenex! Can somebody get me a tissue? Hah can you believe it, I'm sitting here suffering and these people from Lemsip Max won't even get me a tissue!
T: Women are stealing everything from men at the moment. Why do you want to steal everything from us, you're stealing politics and fashion and now you want to steal man flu and reclaiming it as girly flu.
R: Ok, so I'll cut you a deal, we'll take the jobs and you can sit at hoe covered in your own mucus. There's my deal for you.
T: There's got to be a halfway house...
R: Did you never realise that women are ill also? Did you never think that when we're leaving the house, like I have this morning because my husband's too lazy to make a living, that we may be a little bit ill?
T: Well a little bit.
R: A little bit? Look at me. Look at what is coming out of my nose.
So what is the research all about?
T: Well it's basically a third of men have discovered by living with the women around them that they've taken over girly flu and are using our own tactics against us. Like saying "Oh I'm too ill to go out." But when their friends come round they're suddenly fine again.
R: It's like the male is too ill to do the housework but then he can manage to go down the pub to get a pint. It's a miracle. It's like Jesus lifting off and walking across the desert. He cant' answer the phone but he can play on his little - what's that thing called where you twiddle your thumbs around on that thing?
T: Oh, a games console?! I wondered where you were going with that one. What we're basically saying is it's not fair, you stealing our one make thing where we can lie there and suffer.
R: It's such self indulgence. "I can't get up! Get me the remote control! Please lower the lid of the toilet!" Like you've ever done that.
T: The hinge works both ways, you can lift it up yourself as well. It's not difficult.
R: Why would we want to lift it up to put our heads in it and kill ourselves by banging ourselves with the lid. That would be the only reason - there's nothing more naueseating than a man who's got the flu. Nothing is more grotesque. There must be research into why divorce happens, like when you move house and when you see a man who's got the flu.
T: You're picking on me! Why would you want to steal this from us and claim it as your own?
R: Do you see what we're talking about here? We're talking about a cold.
T: Oh we're talking about the flu here, it's very different. I mean, would it kill you when you're doing the shopping to buy tissues with nice soft balm on them? It wouldn't kill you.
R: Buy your own tissues! We're the woman, we hate you. You don't deserve the flu. Flus are going to go right over you now because even the viruses are grossed out by you.
Does that mean you get free Lemsip? Seems like you might need some!
R: I get free Lemsip - that's why I'm doing this gig!
T: That's the only reason she's in today.
R: Yeah but I think it was a fake one because I took it and nothing is happening. No no, that's a lie. But I do think they're giving me fake ones so I stick around.
Female First- Caz MossRuby Wax has never been shy when it comes to expressing her opinion and is never to scared to ask celebrities those questions we all want to ask. Despite suffering from an awful cold- the gossip queen herself chatted to Female First about Britney Spears, Scientology and the rise of the new girl flu.Born in Chicago, Ruby moved to the UK to study at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. Her career in comedy acting came when she became friends with Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders and worked with them on Girls on Top and Absolutely Fabulous.Ruby is most famous for her popular Ruby Meets.. documentary series during which she met the likes of Imelda Marcos, OJ Simpson and Goldie Hawn.
Ruby, you've obviously interviewed a lot of famous people during your career, who was your favourite person to interview?
Ruby: Oh my favourite? Imelda Marcos, remember her?
Did she have as many shoes as everyone thinks?
R: Yeah, she began her new collection when I met her. But they were really cheap, you know the kind you get at WalMart? What's that called here, Asda? They were really cheap and junky. So you too could have 10,000 for $29.99. They were gross. So her country wasn't starving because of her shoes.
Is there anyone you would really love to interview?
R:Well I don't do that now, I've left that to the Graham Norton's, the great and the good. But I'd personally like to meet Bill Clinton but not for interview reasons. Maybe when I don't have a cold - I don't want to pass on those germs.
Speaking of Bill Clinton, we're obviously seeing the Presidential race going on at the moment, do you think we're likely to see the first female or black President?
R: I'll go for the other one, not the woman. I think he's interesting but I think America's too stupid to understand that. I think our brains have wilted to liquid. We're going to go for the Republican to make sure we've got a cowboy in the seat. Or a Mormon. Somebody to whip our hinies.
You're working as an agony aunt for the Telegraph at the moment, what advice would you give to someone like Britney Spears?
R: Umm, well I don't know what's wrong with her but I'd say a lobotomy. The severing of the brain and starting again. Don't you think we should start again at the very beginning?
We've heard in the news this week about Tom Cruise possibly being the head of Scientology. What advice would you give to Katie Holmes if she were to write in to you?
R: Run! Wait for the mothership to come through.
No, the mothership is the one that took Ron Hubbard away in the first place. Don't wait for the mothership. If you see the mothership really change your identity quickly. It's only going to end in tears, a cult never has a happy ending does it?Would you ever consider taking up scientology?
R: If any of them are listening, yes I would. I think it's a deeply meaningful thing...and getting £100,000 to say that is very worth it..(whispers) you know we can't really say anything to offend them They will come after us. I would rather have the flu.
Is there anything else you're up to at the minute?
R: Oh, I'm doing a sitcom in Kenya. I know it's the place with the war. Before that we were doing it because it was a safe place and it was about wartorn countries and now we've got the real thing going on. I play a real bitch of a war correspondent. Her name is - what's her name again? Candida.
And so that's filmed in Keyna? Were you there when any of the trouble was going on?
R: No, I'm going soon. So if you don't hear from me again you'll know the last thing I did in my career was talk about Lemsip Max.
You're working with Lemsip at the moment about this new girl flu theory. What is girl flu?
R: Well I personally don't know, but I think the point is that we're sick of hearing about man flu and how sick they are, and we're just the handmaidens, handing them tissues with our teeth. And now Lemsip have done research and found out that one third of men, get this, claim they're already seen the first indications of girly flu in their partners. Isn't that right Trev?
(Trev is the expert from Lemsip)
Trev: Absolutely.
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