Wednesday, July 18, 2007

SPECTACULAR EXIT FOR TATE'S TV TEEN


LOUDMOUTH teen Lauren Cooper will come a total cropper in a BBC Christmas Special as Catherine Tate sensationally kills off her most famous character.

Tate has invited pop star George Michael into the festive offering - leaving insiders to hint he will play a crucial role in Lauren's demise.

The schoolgirl, catchphrase "Am I bovvered?", hit the screen in 2004 and has starred in three runs of the awardwinning Catherine Tate Show on BBC2. But Catherine, 39, has ruled out a fourth series to concentrate on her new role as the assistant in Doctor Who.

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Yesterday a show insider said: "It's going to be Lauren Cooper RIP. Catherine thinks it's time to kill her off, and she'll be going in spectacular style."

The hush-hush scenes with George have already been filmed.

Earlier this year the angry teenager - who also likes to ask,"Are you disrespectin' me?" - starred in Comic Relief alongside former Prime Minister Tony Blair.

In the sketch Lauren is sent to Downing Street for work experience but ends up boring Blair with her tales of famous people she has met.

This gave him the chance to utter the line: "Am I bovvered?" Another classic moment was during the 2005 Children in Need, where she cheekily asked pop group McFly: "Why are you so rubbish?" Lauren showed up in EastEnders at the Queen Vic later that year and got up Barbara Windsor's nose, as she went looking for a fight with Stacey Slater who had stolen her boyfriend.

The Christmas special will also feature a flashback of Catherine's character Joannie "Nan" Taylor from the 50s.

But Catherine does not plan to introduce any new characters.

She said: "I'm probably going to be sticking with the tried and tested rather than going for any shocks."

"It'll be the equivalent of a greatest hits album, rather than experimental."

LAUREN: AN OBITUARY

LAUREN Jade Chardonnay Cooper was born in 1991 to single mum Faberge Cooper. The father is not recorded on the birth certificate, though a shortlist of possibles was drawn up.

A precocious child, her first Asbo came at the age of 6, along with a caution for shoplifting from Primark.

A keen smoker and connoisseur of vodka-based fruit cocktails, Lauren's Facebook page listed her interests as "not being bovvered" and "disrespectin'".

Briefly employed in a burger bar, there were hopes that she might actually make something of herself when she got to see the Prime Minister, Tony Blair, in 2007, but the meeting did not go well.

Friends are asked to leave flowers from the 24-hour garage by some railings and also a teddy bear. If they can be bovvered.

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