The "Liverpool Daily Post" called her "one of the nation's best-loved soap babes". The "Daily Record" listed her among "The soap stars who boosted the ratings with their shocking clinches" for her part in a lesbian storyline. The "Daily Record" described her saying she "overacts her way through another scene" when she finds vows Kurt is out of her life for good. The "Daily Record" also commented on Ruth's relationship with Lewis saying "He's just turned from one of the most easy-going blokes around into a woman-beater. Yep, when he finds out Ruth has aborted the baby, he hits her. Not a good move at all. It might be Ruth, but we can't condone this, can we? I'd smash both their heads together, the rotten pair." They described the storyline as a cracker and the attempted rape scenes as "some of the grittiest storylines ever seen in a soap". "All About Soap" magazine placed Kurt and Ruth's wedding at number nineteen on their twenty greatest soap weddings list.