Catherine Tate’s Christmas Special is being investigated by TV watchdogs following accusations it was racist and generally offensive.

The BBC1 show received more than 100 complaints following its broadcast on Jesus’ birthday, with some claiming it was "the most offensive programme ever broadcast on a Christmas Day".

Tate, who herself admitted the show was possibly her most profane ever in an attempt to top her celebrated Comic Relief sketch with Tony Blair, was accused of “lazy stereotypying” over it’s depiction of a Northern Irish “terrorist” family.

The BBC have defended the show, which was broadcast at 10.30pm to a 6.5 million audience, as “satire and gross exaggeration”, reports The Mirror.

We wonder, is she bovvered?