celebrities<\/strong><\/a> of the day.<\/p>\nWax describes her meeting with Donald Trump as a ‘car crash’ interviewCredit: BBC<\/h4>\nWho has Ruby Wax interviewed?<\/h2>\n
We take a look back at some of the iconic people Wax<\/strong> met over the years \u2013 and some were far from successful.<\/p>\nDonald Trump<\/h2>\nWax\u2019s 2000 interview with the future US President was an example of car crash TV and a disaster.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
A frosty atmosphere began to develop when she quizzed the 75-year-old businessman about his presidential ambitions, which Ruby admitted she had assumed were a joke.<\/p>\n
“He literally threw me off his plane at 33,000 feet, which is tricky,” she claimed. “He threw my crew out at Arkansas. We had no plans of going to Arkansas.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
She added: \u201cThat was a car crash. Bad interviews still make good TV, but I just think it’s appalling, and it’s what not to do.\u201d<\/p>\n
Madonna<\/h2>\nWax said her interview with Madonna was her ‘most miserable showbiz experience’<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Wax said her interview with Madonna was her ‘most miserable showbiz experience’<\/p>\n
Wax branded her 1994 interview with Madonna as her \u201cmost miserable showbiz experience\u201d.<\/p>\n
She said in 2013: \u201cI thought we were going to bond but she hated me on sight.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were setting up the cameras and she was saying, \u2018No, no, no, I don\u2019t want that camera, I want that camera.\u2019 I got nervous and I was asking dumb questions and then she got up and left.\u201d<\/p>\n
Wax added: \u201cShe left her handbag so I rifled through it and found some of her underpants and put them on my head and started doing some comedy. Madonna looked into the room and saw it. She has never called me since.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs for her pants, they were like a piece of dental floss with some cotton and some frills.\u201d<\/p>\n
OJ Simpson<\/h2>\nWax tried to get OJ Simpson to confess but wasn’t successful<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Wax tried to get OJ Simpson to confess but wasn’t successful<\/h3>\n
Wax described OJ Simpson as \u201cthe most complicated person on earth\u201d after her 1998 interview.<\/p>\n
Simpson agreed to be interviewed in a white van similar to his Ford Bronco in the infamous high-speed, post-murder chase with cops.<\/p>\n
Throughout Simpson remains blank and detached from it all.<\/p>\n
Wax tried to get a confession from him but it\u2019s in vain.<\/p>\n
She does though manage to ask the question: \u201cDo you think that\u2019s weird, that you got famous as a murderer?\u201d<\/p>\n
Carrie Fisher<\/h2>\nRuby Wax and Carrie Fisher became life-long friends<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Ruby Wax and Carrie Fisher became life-long friendsCredit: INSTAGRAM\/RUBY WAX<\/p>\n
Wax and the Star Wars actress became great friends following the interview in 1994.<\/p>\n
In an article for the Huffington Post, Wax wrote: \u201cWho she actually was, was greater than a trillion Star Wars, she was a comic genius.<\/p>\n
\u201cLike a composer hears notes in his\/her head when composing, she would imagine words and phrases, craft them to perfection and reel out daisy chains of comic jewels.\u201d<\/p>\n
She added: \u201cWe’d often lie in bed together (not sexual) she’d call me ‘mommy’ and read out scrawls from her notebooks and I’d just lie there thinking, ‘how lucky am I to have this woman as a friend?’ To the end of my life I’ll never get over that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Goldie Hawn<\/h2>\nWax conducted part of her interview with Goldie Hawn in a Jacuzzi<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Wax conducted part of her interview with Goldie Hawn in a JacuzziCredit: BBC<\/p>\n
Wax wasn\u2019t afraid of firing off a cheeky double entendre as her interview with Hawn revealed.<\/p>\n
The interview with Goldie Hawn switches from a Jacuzzi to a hotel bedroom, which brings a revelation about husband Kurt Russell\u2019s amatory prowess.<\/p>\n
Wax asked: \u201cDid you train him or did he come like that?\u201d<\/p>\n
Pamela Anderson<\/h2>\nPamela Anderson quoted from Hamlet in her interview with Wax<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Pamela Anderson quoted from Hamlet in her interview with WaxCredit: BBC<\/p>\n
The interview with the Baywatch Star surprised many viewers in 1996.<\/p>\n
Pamela Anderson recites a soliloquy from Shakespeare\u2019s Hamlet before simulating sex with Wax in the back of a limo.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Tom Hanks and Jean-Claude Van Damme<\/h2>\nWax interviewed Hollywood A-lister Tom Hanks in 1997<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Wax interviewed Hollywood A-lister Tom Hanks in 1997Credit: BBC<\/p>\n
A bizarre double interview from the second series in 1997.<\/p>\n
Tom Hanks is bribed into meeting Ruby in a London hotel by the producer. Jean-Claude Van Damme fights off a plastic crocodile and saves the lingerie-clad Ruby from death.<\/p>\n
Imelda Marcos<\/h2>\nImelda Marcos showed off her show collection to WaxImelda Marcos showed off her show collection to WaxCredit: Lauren Greenfield<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Wax described the interview to the Jewish News: \u201cOh yeah, I hit the jackpot with that interview. We went all the way to the Philippines and I was told that I had just 10 minutes with her.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut I was still there four days later. I was just thrilled that she liked me so much. Then finally she said, \u2018Do you want to see my shoes?\u2019 She wouldn\u2019t have done that on day one.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen she showed me the accounts, I thought what kind of world are we in? Like OJ, she was an interesting mind to pick, you know, to figure out what motivates her.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York<\/h2>\nSarah Ferguson opened up to Wax in a frank interview in 1996<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Sarah Ferguson opened up to Wax in a frank interview in 1996Credit: PA<\/p>\n
Wax conducted the frank 1996 interview with Sarah Ferguson whilst they were sprawled across the duchess’ chintzy double bed at her then rented home at Kingsbourne, Surrey.<\/p>\n
The Duchess opened up saying: “I am so sad, I am just miserable about what happened in the past, but then I can’t look back.<\/p>\n
“I look back all the time and I am miserable when I do, but I have to look forward now.<\/p>\n
“But if you say: “Gosh, you could have had such a really fantastic life…well, yes, I blew it.”<\/p>\n
The Spice Girls<\/h3>\nWax met The Spice Girls just before their European tour in 1998<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Wax met The Spice Girls just before their European tour in 1998<\/p>\n
Wax caught up with the girl power pop sensation on the eve of their European tour in 1998 and talked to them at their final rehearsals.<\/p>\n
Victoria Beckham, then known as Posh Spice, confessed to Wax she didn\u2019t really know who David Beckham was before she met him.<\/p>\n
“I went over to him. I said to him, ‘are you going to come down and take me out type thing. And he came down to London and took me out,” she told Wax<\/strong>.<\/p>\n
\nRuby Wax\u2019s interviews in the 1990s were some of the most talked about shows on TV. Before social media and breaking all conventions, Ruby revealed a totally different side to some of the biggest stars, and fallen stars, in the world. These sensational series have never been repeated and Ruby has never watched them back \u2013 until now.<\/p>\n
When Ruby Wax Met \u2026 review \u2013 excruciating outpourings from OJ Simpson, Donald Trump and more<\/h4>\n
From a menacing Trump<\/strong> to OJ Simpson<\/strong> trying to stab her with a banana, Wax<\/strong> looks back at her interview hits and misses \u2013 and it makes for jaw-dropping, fascinating TV<\/p>\nWhen Ruby Wax Met\u2026, BBC2, review: these fascinating celeb encounters had me longing for the chaos of the 90s
\nReflecting on her celebrity interviews after 25 years, Ruby Wax was as candid as her subjects, offering a snapshot of fame long before formulaic talk shows and pre-prepared anecdotes<\/p>\n
For the first time since her series aired in the 1990s, When Ruby Wax Met\u2026 saw the comedian, author and interviewer rewatching her explosive back catalogue of celebrity encounters.<\/p>\n
This might have been born of lockdown limitations to new programming (a similar recent show had Brian Cox reflecting on his early work), and the format can be a bit pedestrian, but the 25-year gap has given Wax plenty of time to reassess. She, and her almost unbelievable access to A-listers, turn out to be ripe for a retrospective.<\/p>\n
Much has changed since the mid-90s, from our relationship with celebrity to the way we view women on TV. With the rich and famous now so protective over their images, it was a shock to the system to watch an unguarded Goldie Hawn hop into a hotel bed with Wax to ponder female pleasure.<\/p>\n
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