Nineties TV star unrecognisable as she goes make-up free on the beach in Cape Town
KNOWN for her trademark red hair and vibrant personality - this TV star made fans do a double take as she went makeup free for a new beach snap.
Comedian and presenter Ruby Wax, 70, showed off with her age-defying looks as she posed in a black swimsuit in Cape Town.
The actress took to social media to share her morning routine with fans - which includes a freezing cold dip in the sea.
Sharing a video of the incredible mountain view, Ruby said: "This is where I go swimming everyday and it's freezing.
"You freeze your a*** off but supposedly it wards off depression. I'm the living case of that.
"This is where I go, there is the beach and then I take a shower here and I always change where everybody can see me because I think if you've got it flaunt it."
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She then gave fans a glimpse of her one-piece swimwear and said: "So this is me in a swimsuit, let me suck it in, there we go...I'm never going to show it again.
"That's it, that's what I do in the morning."
Her followers were quick to compliment the star of her youthful appearance.
One wrote: "Amazing way to start the day and you look fit and fabulous Ruby!! Flaunt it Gal."
A second posted: "Looking great Ruby."
While another added: "You've definitely still got it."
The funny woman has enjoyed an incredible career as a comedian, actress and author.
But times weren't always easy for the star and she recently revealed that her parents beat her and left her feeling suicidal in an emotional Kate Garraway's Life Stories interview.
She insisted she "would be dead" if she hadn't run away from her late hot-tempered parents in Chicago to study in Glasgow when she was a teenager.
After rising to fame in British sitcom Girls on Top, she hosted her own humorous chat show Don't Miss Wax.
In the 90s she fronted Ruby Wax Meets... - a BBC the series in which she interviewed names such as Madonna, Pamela Anderson and Imelda Marcos.
She also made guest appearances and scripted edited the hugely popular comedy Absolutely Fabulous.
Ruby is married to British film and TV producer Ed Bye.
The couple have been wed for 33 years after they married in 1988
He has directed a number of popular TV shows, including Absolutely Fabulous, French & Saunders and Red Dwarf.
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Before Ed she was married to Andrew Porter from 1976 to 1980.
The pair have three children together: Max (born 1988), Madeleine (1990) and Marina (1993).
