Ruby goes back to school - Feb 7 2007
Ruby Wax has revealed she’s taking some time off from the showbiz world to go to college.

The comedienne and TV host - who is set to host the red carpet coverage of the Baftas this Sunday - says she hopes to get her masters degree in psychology.

"I’m going to college to get my masters degree in psychology," she says.

"I’ve been studying for a couple of years now. It’s not very sexy, but I may inspire young girls."

And it seems the outspoken star has already planned how to use her new skills.

She revealed: "I hope I can put it together somehow, either in television or I’m going to write Bill Bryson-type books about how your brain works - that I can do."

Ruby Wax will host E! Entertainment Television’s Live From The Red Carpet: The 2007 Bafta Awards on Sunday, February 11.

Post celeb - August 04
Celebrities are campaigning to stop the closure of Notting Hill’s post office.

It’s not only us unknowns that are annoyed over plans to close down the post office, the celebs are campaigning too. Damon Albarn, Angela Rippon, Ruby Wax, Tilda Swinton, Stephen Frears, Helen Fielding, Harold Pinter and Tony Benn are among those who are making sure the campaign to keep the PO open gets plenty of press. "It doesn’t make any sense" opined TV presenter Rippon "in any other business if you had customers spilling out the door you would think about expanding it." Lets just hope their support does the trick.

New Ruby - June 04
Ruby Wax gets under the skin of top businessmen in new series. Ruby Does The Business, which kicked off on BBC Three this week sees the straight talking comedienne shadow some of the UK’s leading entrepreneurs. Ruby sits in on top level meetings with Toni & Guy and attends staff workshops at Po Na Na as she tries to find out how these men made it in the cut throat world of business. Apparently Ruby wanted to get in to the boardroom now that she has decided that performers are ’old hat’.

Ruby apologises in slander case - Feb 04
An Irish journalist has reached an out of court settlement and received a full apology following slanderous comments made by TV star Ruby Wax.

Broadcaster Patricia Danaher sued Ruby after interviewing the entertainer in June 2000. At the end of the interview Ruby asked the journalist what she thought of her latest show. The journalist admitted she preferred a previous series, at which Ruby claimed to be insulted and told the journalist and crew to leave the premises, whilst making abusive comments.

Ruby went on to demand that the interview not be broadcast and slanderous allegations were relayed to Ms Danaher’s employers at the Belfast-based TV station.