Plaudits poured in after a Weymouth schoolgirl had her shaved on live TV in a brave challenge to raise money and awareness of ovarian cancer.
Ruby Allen-Denton, 13 and a pupil at Wey Valley School, had her hair shaved down to a number-two buzzcut live on ITV's Lorraine Kelly show on Wednesday morning. She underwent the challenge to raise money for a fund set up in memory of her friend Gill Harler, who died last year of ovarian cancer.
Speaking after the show on Wednesday, Ruby told the Echo that the day had gone 'really well'. 
"I was quite nervous before I went on, but that went away as soon as I started. Lorraine was really supportive and kind.
"I've already had quite a few messages from my friends - they've all been really supportive," she said, adding that her new hairstyle felt 'fresh' and 'light'.
Ruby's mother Melissa, who underwent a similar head-shaving charity challenge two years ago at Weymouth Pavilion, said the day had been 'hectic and exhausting' but 'really good fun'.
"The reaction has been great," she said, noting that among those congratulating had been actor Millie Bobby Brown - whom Ruby is now said to resemble.
In her message, the Stranger Things star said: "This is an amazing thing to do, Ruby, in honour of your friend, and you look so great and so fierce!"

Ruby's challenge raised £880 - more than twice the targeted £350 - which will be split between the Gill Harler Fund and Wey Valley's own Will Mackaness Trust.




Ruby said she thought Gill would have been very proud of her efforts. "At first, Gill would have said, 'Don't do it!', but she would have come round and thought it was a good thing," she said.
As well as her mother, Ruby was accompanied on the trip to the ITV studios in London by Gill's daughter Karen Symons, who along with Melissa is a trustee of the fund set up in her late mother's memory.
Gill Harler died after a long struggle against ovarian cancer, throughout which she campaigned to raise awareness of the disease, which is notoriously difficult to diagnose and affects women and girls of all ages.