Leighton’s very own martial arts champion showed off her more feminine side when she appeared on Channel 4’s new dating show that helps singletons look good to attract a new love.
Mother-of-two Ruth Walker, 31, of Sandhills, invited fashion guru Gok Wan to give her a dramatic makeover and give her a few tricks, too.
She said: “To be honest, generally in life I am quite a confident and outgoing person, but not when it comes to dates. It was my friend from martial arts that told me about it and said Channel 4 were looking for single girls.
“Everyone said to give it a go, so I just went for it. It was a lot scarier than I thought though!
“I was really aware of the cameras at first, but down the line I felt a lot more prepared because I knew how to answer the questions they were asking, so I ended up feeling a lot more myself around them.”
Although the show aired on Channel 4 on Wednesday, crews arrived at Leighton Buzzard in August for three days to film at Ruth’s home in Sandhills, Pages Park and at The Globe Inn in Linslade.
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