Ruby Wax - The Pope
Ruby always wanted to be famous, so decided to become an actress. She started off writing for Not the Nine O Clock News. She met French and Saunders at a party and worked alongside them a number of times, on television in Happy Families and notably the sitcom Girls on Top. Ruby played Shelley Dupont, a stereotypically loud American dying for a career in showbusiness.
Ruby eventually got a chat show after drunkenly interviewing Michael Grade in a tent at the Edinburgh festival. She subsequently made a range of programmes (most of which featured her name in the title).
Several TV programmes followed, most noticeably East Meets Wax (1989) and Ruby's Health quest (1995)
Ruby Wax later became the script editor for Absolutely Fabulous, coming up with many of the one-liners.
