Ed Bye and Ruby Wax have been married since 1988. Edward Richard Morrison Bye was born on June 12, 1955. He attended Mount House School, a public school in Tavistock, Devon.
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Bye married the US comedienne-turned-author Ruby Wax in 1988 and they have three children. He was the co-founder of the TV production company Tall TV in 2011 along with Tim Dawson and Susan Nickson.
Bye has an impressive list of credits to his CV, working on a number of hit TV comedy shows including Red Dwarf, Bottom, The Vicar of Dibley, My Family and French and Saunders.
He has also worked on a number of his wife’s shows over the years, such as Don’t Miss Wax, The Full Wax and Ruby.
Ruby Wax OBE is an American-British actress, comedian, writer, television personality, and mental health campaigner. A classically-trained actress, Wax was with the Royal Shakespeare Company for five years and co-starred on the ITV sitcom Girls on Top (1985–1986).
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She came to prominence as a comic interviewer, playing up to British perceptions of the strident American style, on television shows including The Full Wax (1991–1994), Ruby Wax Meets… (1994–1998), Ruby (1997–2000), and The Ruby Wax Show (2002).
She was a script editor for the BBC sitcom Absolutely Fabulous (1992–2012), also appearing in two episodes. Wax holds both American and British citizenship and has resided in the United Kingdom since the 1970s.
In 2013, she gained a master’s degree in mindfulness-based cognitive therapy from Kellogg College, Oxford. Wax was appointed an honorary Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2015 Special Honours for services to mental health.
Her memoirs How Do You Want Me? (2002) and Sane New World (2013) both reached number one on the Sunday Times bestseller list.
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