This is the ‘insane’ moment that OJ Simpson pretended to kill Ruby Wax during a 1998 BBC interview, which she recalled this week on I’m A Celebrity.
During a conversation about some of her most high profile interviews, Ruby asked the camp if they had seen her bizarre interaction with the murder suspect.
The presenter, 72, became a household name in the 1990s for her show, Ruby Wax Meets… interviewing stars such as Pamela Anderson, Madonna and Donald Trump.
Ruby met OJ in 1998, after he was acquitted in 1994 of the murder of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman.
The TV star spoke about the eerie moment OJ pretended to stab the presenter with a banana after the interview.
Ruby, called the ex-NFL star, who was found liable for stabbing to death his ex-wife Nicole Brown and her friend Ron Goldman in civil court, ‘the most complicated character on earth.’
This is the ‘insane’ moment that OJ Simpson pretended to kill Ruby Wax during a 1998 BBC interview, which she recalled this week on I’m A Celebrity
During a conversation about some of her most high profile interviews, Ruby asked the camp if they had seen her bizarre interaction with the murder suspect
Ruby met OJ in 1998, after he was acquitted in 1994 of the murder of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman
‘After we finished filming, Simpson said to me that he has a surprise for me – and I genuinely was surprised,’ Wax said. ‘I think it was his idea of a joke.’
In a video clip, Simpson pretends to stab Wax with a banana while making a screeching noise as he grinned at the camera.
Simpson’s questionable joke came as she opened her hotel door to him, but the comedian claimed that he was initially looking for a knife.
The morbid video re-surfaced on Thursday, as the world found out that the ex-football star and murder suspect had died after a short battle with prostate cancer.
Wax described their 1998 interview over 20 years later as a ‘psychological midfield’ and said the strange stabbing joke came after the interview. ‘Afterwards, I did a piece to camera saying “I’ve been fixed up and I don’t know who my date is going to be” and I’d open to door and it would be him.
‘But when he was out there, all the trays were out there and he was looking for a knife, to fool me when the door was open but there was no knife so he grabbed a banana.’
Wax had met with Simpson after he was famously acquitted in 1994 of the murder of his former wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman.
The now 70-year-old television personality alleges that Simpson phoned her up on April 1st and said: ‘I killed her, April Fools!’
The TV star spoke about the eerie moment OJ pretended to stab the presenter with a banana after the interview
Ruby, called the ex-NFL star, who was found liable for stabbing to death his ex-wife Nicole Brown and her friend Ron Goldman in civil court, ‘the most complicated character on earth’
In a video clip, Simpson pretends to stab Wax with a banana while making a screeching noise as he grinned at the camer
She recalled their first meeting, claiming he told her his favourite poem was one about Lizzie Borden, an American woman tried and acquitted of the axe murders of her father and stepmother in 1892.
‘The first night we went out, we went out with his sister, and all these women came to the table and said “Can we meet afterwards”. They came every night and they want to sleep with a criminal.
Wax said she thought she’d be able to get Simpson to admit to the fatal stabbings in 1995 – and even suggested he might want her to bust him for the crime.
‘I think he wanted me to bust him, he said out of nowhere “Want to know what my favorite poem is” and and he went into “Lizzie Borden took an axe, And gave her mother forty whacks; When she saw what she had done, She gave her father forty-one.”
‘I thought I could bust him’, said Ruby. ‘[I thought] he’d say on air “Yes he did it”, and I’d get him in jail. So I was being public defender.’
The notorious double murder suspect passed away surrounded by his family at his home in Las Vegas on Wednesday night.
Simpson became one of the most infamous figures in America after he was charged with the 1994 murders.
An X post shared on his official account by his family said: ‘On April 10th, our father, Orenthal James Simpson, succumbed to his battle with cancer.
Ruby met OJ in 1998, after he was acquitted in 1994 of the murder of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman
‘He was surrounded by his children and grandchildren. During this time of transition, his family asks that you please respect their wishes for privacy and grace. – The Simpson Family.’
She told Alex Scott and Shona McGarty: ‘That was insane. He tried to kill me with a banana. He said “I did it” and then said “April Fool’s”. Because he wanted to get caught, he couldn’t live with the guilt. He was teasing the whole time.’
Alex said in the Bush Telegraph: ‘I loved watching Ruby Wax Meets. I grew up watching all her documentaries. Shows like this bring people together that I thought I’d never meet in my life’.
After hearing her stories, fans called Ruby an ‘icon’ and urged bosses to consider bringing the BBC show back. They wrote on X: ‘ITV need to recommission Ruby Max Meets…’;
‘Great to see how many people are now on board with the Ruby love. I said from the start once you get to see her you will. Been a massive fan of hers for years’;
‘Ruby Wax is an icon, she better not get voted out early’ and ‘Ruby Wax trying to bring back her chat show back via this show’.
Elsewhere on the show, Ruby recalled when she interview Trump in 1999 and laughed in his face at his revelation he wanted to become president.
During the chat, Ruby also spoke about interviewing President Trump.
She said: ‘I did Trump. I know what his brain is like. Total insanity and anger and arrogant. Bill Crosby was insane too.’
In what she previously claimed was ‘the worst interview I’ve ever done’, she told Kelly Brook: ‘Donald Trump said he wanted to be president of the United States and I started laughing because I thought it was a joke.
‘He was looking at me like: ‘what an a*****e. Hatred.
Alex said in the Bush Telegraph: ‘I loved watching Ruby Wax Meets. I grew up watching all her documentaries. Shows like this bring people together that I thought I’d never meet in my life’
In 1999, Ruby filmed a series for BBC1 called Ruby’s American Pie, which saw her getting to meet Donald Trump in what she later claimed was ‘the worst interview I’ve ever done’
After hearing her stories, fans called Ruby an ‘icon’ and urged bosses to consider bringing the BBC show back. They wrote on X: ‘ITV need to recommission Ruby Max Meets…’
‘And I said who would you date if you were in the Whitehouse?’ And he said: “That’s enough, you’re the most obnoxious person I’ve ever met.”
Ruby revealed he quickly ended the interview, which ended up only being five minutes long.
Ruby previously alleged in an interview with Good Morning Britain that after she had finished filming the documentary in 1998 with OJ, that he phoned her up on April 1st and said: ‘It’s OJ, I did it. April Fools!’
‘After we finished filming, Simpson said to me that he has a surprise for me – and I genuinely was surprised,’ Ruby said. ‘I think it was his idea of a joke.’
OJ’s questionable joke came as she opened her hotel door to him, but the comedian claimed that he was initially looking for a knife.
She said previously: ‘Afterwards, I did a piece to camera saying “I’ve been fixed up and I don’t know who my date is going to be” and I’d open to door and it would be him.
‘But when he was out there, all the trays were out there and he was looking for a knife, to fool me when the door was open but there was no knife so he grabbed a banana.’
She recalled their first meeting, claiming he told her his favorite poem was one about Lizzie Borden, an American woman tried and acquitted of the axe murders of her father and stepmother in 1892.
Ruby said she thought she’d be able to get Simpson to admit to the fatal stabbings in 1995 – and even suggested he might want her to bust him for the crime.
‘I think he wanted me to bust him, he said out of nowhere “Want to know what my favorite poem is” and and he went into “Lizzie Borden took an axe, And gave her mother forty whacks; When she saw what she had done, She gave her father forty-one.”
OJ died aged 76 last year after a short battle with prostate cancer.
