A hilarious clip of an innocent racegoer has gone viral after she revealed her mother to be an iconic British comedian.
The video, posted by the Instagram account for the students events company INVADES, showed the presenter casually interviewing guests at a racecourse earlier this week.
In the clip, the interviewer stopped a young racegoer to ask her: ‘Who is your most famous contact?’
The girl then casually replied: ‘My Mum,’ before repeating the catchphrase that first made her mother a star.
Revealing that her mother was, in fact, Catherine Tate, she said: ‘Am I bovvered? I’m not bovvered you are!’
The catchphrase was famously uttered by Catherine’s character Lauren, which featured on her sketch series, which aired from 2004 to 2007.
Her daughter, Erin Clark, 22, then went one step further by Facetiming her mother during the interview, asking the Doctor Who star to ‘say hi’ to the camera.
While Catherine offered a wave to the camera, Erin added: ‘She’s in LA right now living the life.’
Catherine added: ‘How are you? I can’t believe you, I’m on the freeway,’ before Erin ended the call by saying: ‘Alright thanks for showing up Mum! Love you!’
The post sparked a flurry of reaction from fans on social media, with comments including: ‘That’s a flex her Mum’s a legend;’
‘She looks just like her Mum; Awww I love Catherine Tate.’
Catherine shares her daughter with stage manager Twig Clark.
The pair split in 2011 and Catherine was then briefly linked to Take That star Jason Orange before starting a relationship with broadcaster Adrian Chiles, which reportedly ended in December 2013.
It was then revealed in 2019 that she was engaged to American screenwriter and divorced father-of-three Jeff Ghutheim.
A source told The Mail On Sunday at the time: ‘Catherine and Jeff have known each other for years,’ said a source. ‘Jeff is a screenwriter, so he and Catherine have been working on several writing projects together.
‘He’s a funny, good-looking guy but it’s been hard for his ex-wife to deal with the fact that he is dating someone so famous.’
Gutheim is considerably less well-known than his fiancee. His work includes a 2005 teen comedy called Full Of It, which starred Baywatch actress Carmen Electra, and a 2009 comedy called Knucklehead, starring wrestler Big Show.
The romance is believed to have begun after Mr Gutheim split from his British-born wife of 19 years, Tracey. The couple have three children, aged 25, 21 and 19.
Cahtherine moved to America in 2011 when she landed a role in the US version of The Office, but maintains a London home.
‘Catherine is known in the US but she’s not the household name there that she is in Britain,’ said the source. ‘That’s why she and Jeff have been able to keep their relationship under the radar.
‘It’s not like they have been hiding. They’ve been quite open about their relationship and have been talking openly about getting married. They are very much in love and blissfully happy. They can’t wait to start this next chapter of their lives together.’
INVADES is an events and media company that hosts day parties at stadiums and racecourses across the UK, Ireland, and New Zealand.
Catherine rose to fame thanks to her acclaimed comedy sketch series The Catherine Tate Show, which received seven BAFTA nominations.
She also starred as comedian Donna Noble opposite David Tennant in Doctor Who, reprising her role for the show’s 60th Anniversary in 2023.
Catherine went onto kickstart a career in the US with a role in The Office, and is currently starring in the Fox sitcom Going Dutch, which premiered last month.
The star previously complained that cancel culture is waging a ‘war on comedy’ and called on common sense to prevail.
She told the BBC’s Headliners podcast that she believes comedy is a way for people to connect and that ‘everyone should have the mickey taken out of them’ sometimes’.
During that 30-minute interview, the comedian said people needed to be able to use common sense and recognise situations where you are ‘just having a laugh’.
Tate added: ‘I think you can’t help but second guess yourself: we are in a climate where it’s like touch paper at the moment.
‘Things can be, and often are, willfully misconstrued. I don’t think there should be a war on jokes, I don’t think there should be a war on comedy – I don’t think should be a war on culture.
‘But most people know the guidelines between common sense and the hypersensitivity that can surround a lot of debate at the moment.
‘It’s everyone’s turn at some point to have the mickey taken out of them, and that’s OK.’
The mother-of-one added her comedy had ‘never intended to offend’ but, due to the subjectivity of comedy, she is not ‘in control’ of that.
Last year, Catherine’s performance in a stage production of The Enfield Haunting was paned by critics, with The Times dubbing it ‘a candidate for the worst play of the year’.
The West End adaptation of the Enfield Poltergeist promised theatregoers 100 minutes of pure horror for up to £165.
The synopsis: ‘The on-screen adaptation of the Enfield Poltergeist is said to be a ‘spine-tingling first-hand account of one of the ghost hunters who ventured into the house and saw the unimaginable.
‘Inspired by a case that gave the world nightmares, The Enfield Haunting is bringing its horrifying climax to The Ambassadors Theatre.’
Reviews indicated that the play largely failed at what it set out to achieve, leaving critics miffed at the ticket price – and even worse, snickering at the attempts to fright.
Clive Davies of The Times awarded the play one star, and wrote: ‘Paul Unwin’s play, inspired by the notorious case of a poltergeist said to be rattling around a house in the London suburbs in the 1970s, is certain to make the list of worst plays of the year.’
He added: ‘Forget the supernatural jiggery-pokery, the far-fetched thing here is that Catherine Tate and David Threlfall signed up for such a fiasco.’
Meanwhile, Chief Theatre Critics at The Telegraph, Dominic Cavendish offered it two stars, and found a particular dislike at the ticket price.
He wrote: ‘I wish I could report that it’s worth emerging from your duvet to investigate, but it’s enough to make you repeat-jab the snooze-button, especially with top-price tickets going for almost £165.’
Nick Clark of The Evening Standard similarly awarded the play two stars, and equally struggled to enjoy the production.
He wrote: ‘The latest show hoping to have ’em screaming in the aisles is The Enfield Haunting, starring Catherine Tate and David Threfall – the first big opening in Theatreland of 2024. But sadly this limp effort will barely raise more than a sigh.’
The Guardian critic, Arifa Akbar, who looked for something beyond jump scares, enjoyed the play somewhat.