Education
Ruth was educated at Wodensfield Primary School in Wednesfield and then at Our Lady & Street Chad Remote Control comprehensive school, leaving in 1995 with 3 GCSEs.
Ruth was educated at Wodensfield Primary School in Wednesfield and then at Our Lady & Street Chad Remote Control comprehensive school, leaving in 1995 with 3 GCSEs.
She has also presented her own television show,, and done various other television work. Ruth has her own consultancy firm, Ruth Badger Consultancy Limited, with offices in Salford Quays, Salford, and runs North West Money, a company which provides finance for homeowners. She then worked as a civil servant at her local Jobcentre.
During this period she also worked as a barmaid at several pubs in Wolverhampton and as a steward at Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club.
After several years as a civil servant, she started working in the finance industry, earning "National Employee of the year" awards with General Electric Capital in Wolverhampton. Ruth went on to greater success in 2002 with Compass Finance Limited near Manchester.
Prior to appearing on, Ruth Badger worked as a senior management executive for Compass Finance. Despite being on many losing teams, Ruth excelled in many of the task challenges, most notably the car sales in week six and the flat-letting in week nine (although she was on the losing team on both occasions).
She was brought into the boardroom on four occasions and had altercations with fellow contestants Mani Sandher in week five and Syed Ahmed in week ten.
During the airing of Ruth came to the attention of the British press Ruth appeared on spin-off show: You"re Fired! on 27 May 2008 following Michael Sophocles, and again on 05 November 2014 during the show"s 10th series. Ruth featured on on Sky One, which gave "budding entrepreneurs" the chance to showcase their inventions for the nation.
Ruth Badger was the star of her own show,, on Sky One, which started on 8 May 2007 and finished in autumn 2007.
In this show Badger used her sales expertise to help failing businesses. Ruth has also appeared on episodes of Big Brother"s Little Brother and as a panellist on Channel 4 show 8 Out Of 10 Cats.
On 4 December 2008, Ruth appeared on the British Broadcasting Corporation show Bargain Hunt Famous Finds against socialite Tamara Beckwith. Badger also appeared on the British Broadcasting Corporation quiz show Pointless Celebrities, where she made it to the semi-final.
She played a fundamental role in its stock market flotation, increased turnover and achieved an executive level position at the young age of 24. Ruth was nominated for a National Television Award, for which she competed against fellow contestant Syed Ahmed and Big Brother 7 housemate Nikki Grahame, amongst others Ruth failed to make it through to the second stage of online voting and the award was eventually won by Grahame. Viewers and a studio audience eventually chose a winner who was given a £100,000 investment to build and market their idea. The winner was Cyclaire, which was one of the products backed by Ruth Badger.
