Ruby Wax accuses BBC of axing her speak present when she turned 50
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uby Wax has accused the BBC of ageism in a brand new interview, claiming they axed her TV sequence, Ruby Wax With…, when she turned 50.
The comic accused the broadcaster of not permitting girls of a sure age to host chat reveals after they pulled the plug on the sequence in 2003, which noticed her interview the likes of Susan Sarandon, Ben Stiller and Jim Carrey.
Following the present’s axing, Louis Theroux’s docuseries took over her slot.
Talking on Kate Garraway’s Life Stories, the TV star was requested by Garraway: “So why did the television shows dry up?”
Wax’s interview on Kate Garraway’s Life Stories airs on Wednesday at 9pm
/ ITVTo which the 70-year-old claimed: “Because I turned 50 and that’s not allowed.” Responding, the ITV host requested: “So it was an age thing?”
Wax replied: “Of course, and then there was a man who took my job, it’s not Louis Theroux who is a really nice man.
“And whoever I will not mention names said, ‘We want you to do a game show’, but I said I could be a really good interviewer and they said, ‘Uh uh’, so I left town.”
Wax admitted that she blamed documentarian Louis Theroux for dropping her present however later discovered she was actually axed by a tv government, not the journalist.
Losing her present prompted the comedian to alter the course of her profession and earn a grasp’s diploma in mindfulness-based cognitive remedy from Oxford University.
The recent begin additionally allowed her time to concentrate on elevating consciousness round psychological well being following her personal experiences of melancholy.
The Standard has contacted a BBC consultant for remark.
The comic started working with the BBC in 1991 together with her present The Full Wax. Following the success of the sequence, she filmed a one-off, Ruby Wax Meets Madonna, for the broadcaster in 1994.
Off the again of that particular, the BBC commissioned her sequence Ruby Wax Meets…, which aired between 1996 and 1998. The present noticed her interview the likes of Donand Trump, OJ. Simpson, and Pamela Anderson.
The sequence was each a success with viewers and critics, incomes her a BAFTA Award for an interview with Sarah, Duchess of York, which attracted over 14 million viewers, in 1997.
Wax additionally offered quiz present, The Waiting Game, on BBC one from November 2001 to June 2002. The new incarnation of her 90s sequence launched in 2003 and was titled Ruby Wax With…
Elsewhere within the interview, the American star opens up about her uncompromising upbringing, how she escaped her strict dad and mom in America, in addition to recalling the bodily abuse she confronted by the hands of her father Edward Wachs.
Kate Garraway’s Life Stories is on tonight at 9pm