Dame Lauren Alicia Mishika Tanisha Felicia Jane Cooper is a fictional character in The Catherine Tate Show.
In the 2005 Christmas special, her singing is revealed as poor when she, Liese and Ryan as "the Flygirl Collective and MC Perkins" audition for Fame Academy.
In their audition, they sing their own rendition of "Shut Up" by The Black Eyed Peas which is poorly received by Richard Park.
She is due to marry Ryan in the final episode, but he jilts her at the altar because of his embarrassment of Lauren after she sings a very squeaky, off-key version of Celine Dion's "My Heart Will Go On" to him.
Lauren even insulted the reverend by using her catchphrase as well as calling her a lesbian and being transgender and stating that god doesn’t exist.
She is well-versed in the Periodic table, she apparently knows Shakespeare, as shown in the sketch in Comic Relief 2009 with David Tennant playing her Scottish literature teacher, knows how to say "Am I bovvered?"
When told by Simon Amstell, who is hosting the segment, that only positive questions are allowed, Lauren uses a variety of her catch phrases, including "Am I bovvered?"
Lauren is then "ordered" to put a more positive question to the group, and confuses them with Busted, asking "Are you gutted that Charlie left?"
She is told to leave the set, and as she does so, she asks Danny Jones from McFly to sign her knee, but walks away promptly saying "You can't even spell.
The scene is set when Lauren arrives in Walford in search of revenge on Stacey Slater (Lacey Turner), who has apparently stolen her boyfriend.
She then visits The Queen Victoria public house, and Peggy Mitchell (Barbara Windsor) finds herself getting increasingly frustrated and annoyed with Lauren, who asks, "Are you a Cockney?
Tennant plays her new English teacher, Mr. Logan, who after being goaded by Lauren for his Scottish accent and resemblance to The Doctor, is finally pushed over the edge when she asks him if he fancies Billie Piper.
with many other famous lines changed "looketh at my face" followed by a recitation of Sonnet 130 off the top of her head ending with a definitive "Bite me alien boy".
[5][6][7] In the 2007 Christmas special of The Catherine Tate Show, Lauren dies after falling from a waterfall while kayaking,[8] having ignored warnings from a local man, after asking him "Are you a yokel?"
1992–2007 I Still Ain't Bovvered The character was revived in 2017 for Red Nose Day and appears on stage with Lenny Henry and Warwick Davis.
She also returned in The Big Night In, a 20 April 2020 telethon held during the COVID-19 pandemic, in a skit which had her being schooled remotely by a teacher played again by David Tennant.
A 2016 update to the Oxford English Dictionary added the word "bovver", which had been current since 1871, and had been "made famous by comedian Catherine Tate".