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Season 1

  • S01E01 Imelda Marcos

    • January 28, 1996
    • BBC One

    In the first of a series of interviews, Ruby Wax heads to Manila to track down the former dictator's wife Imelda Marcos.

  • S01E02 Pamela Anderson

    • February 4, 1996
    • BBC One

  • S01E03 Roseanne Barr

    • February 11, 1996
    • BBC One

    Ruby goes to Hollywood to meet the sitcom queen Roseanne Barr.

  • S01E04 Bette Midler and Liza Minnelli

    • February 18, 1996
    • BBC One

    Ruby takes Bette Midler shopping, and then travels to Nashville in Tennessee to look for Liza Minnelli.

  • S01E05 Goldie Hawn

    • February 25, 1996
    • BBC One

    Ruby Wax meets up with actress Goldie Hawn for some serious girl talk about life, love and glamour. On the way, she bumps into Hollywood legend Charlton Heston.

  • S01E06 Burt Reynolds

    • March 3, 1996
    • BBC One

    Ruby travels to Jupitor, Florida, where she catches up with Hollywood star Burt Reynolds

  • S01E07 Heidi Fleiss

    • April 7, 1996
    • BBC One

    In one of the Hollywood madam's final interviews before she started her prison sentence, she tells Ruby about how she became involved in the vice game and about life in the fast lane.

Season 2

  • S02E01 Sharon Stone

    • January 20, 1997
    • BBC One

    Hollywood siren Sharon Stone is Ruby Wax's guest as she returns for another series of revealing interviews with the stars.

  • S02E02 Tom Hanks and Jean-Claude Van Damme

    • January 27, 1997
    • BBC One

    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.

  • S02E03 Pamela Anderson

    • February 3, 1997
    • BBC One

  • S02E04 Helen Mirren and Julianna Margulies

    • February 10, 1997
    • BBC One

    Actress Helen Mirren takes Ruby Wax on a bargain-hunting spree in New York. ER's Julianna Margulies spills some love secrets of her co-stars.

  • S02E05 Bill Cosby and Fran Drescher

    • February 17, 1997
    • BBC One

    This week featuring Bill Cosby on the set of the American version of One Foot in the Grave in New York. Ruby Wax also talks to Fran Drescher, star of the sitcom The Nanny.

  • S02E06 Jane Seymour, Lisa Kudrow and John Goodman

    • February 24, 1997
    • BBC One

    This week "saloon girl" Ruby Wax joins Jane Seymour on the set of Dr Quinn: Medicine Woman. She also encourages Friends star Lisa Kudrow to busk in London, and takes John Goodman to a posh tea dance.

Season 3

  • S03E01 The Spice Girls

    • March 15, 1998
    • BBC One

    Ruby Wax meets the Spice Girls on the eve of their European tour and talks to them at their final rehearsals.

  • S03E02 Jerry Springer

    • March 22, 1998
    • BBC One

    Ruby Wax meets the weird world of American talk television when she visits The Jerry Springer Show.

  • S03E03 Don King

    • March 29, 1998
    • BBC One

    Ruby Wax talks to controversial multi-millionaire boxing promoter Don King at a Las Vegas title fight. She spars with King about his distinctive hairstyle and meets WBA and IBF world heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield.

  • S03E04 Drew Barrymore and Sandra Bullock

    • April 5, 1998
    • BBC One

    Drew Barrymore and Sandra Bullock, two of Hollywood's most colourful actresses, talk to Ruby Wax.

  • S03E05 Dennis Rodman

    • April 12, 1998
    • BBC One

    Controversial US basketball player Dennis Rodman talks to Ruby Wax about his image, his penchant for women's clothing, and superstar Madonna.

  • S03E06 O.J. Simpson

    • April 29, 1998
    • BBC One

    Three years ago, former American football hero and film actor OJ Simpson was acquitted of the murder of his ex-wife and her friend in what many describe as the trial of the century. Ruby Wax talks to Simpson about his time in prison, the trial and why people still believe he is guilty.

Additional Specials

  • SPECIAL 0x1 The Duchess of York

    • November 17, 1996
    • BBC One

    In this one-off special Ruby Wax talks to the Duchess of York at her home in Surrey.

  • SPECIAL 0x2 Ruby Wax's Girl Talk

    • January 13, 1997
    • BBC One

  • SPECIAL 0x3 Wax Meets Madonna

    • October 23, 1994
    • BBC One

    Since the publication of her book Sex and her album Erotica, Madonna has suffered a critical backlash which she regards as punishment for being a successful and sexual single woman. This interview with chat host Ruby Wax gives her a chance to answer back.