Jennifer Saunders didn't write the scripts for Absolutely Fabulous. Her daughter Beattie did.

The bombshell is dropped on the upcoming edition of confessions show Unforgivable, which goes out on Dave on Tuesday, March 9 at 10pm. 

Though actually the full story is not quite as sensational. Saunders' daughter Beattie appeared in the show's confessional booth and said: "I wrote my mum's Ab Fab scripts in the back of the car." But what she actually meant was that her mum was so late in writing the dialogue that she dictated it to her to write down on the way to dropping Beattie off before heading to the show's read-throughs.

So it's probably more about employing cheap secretarial labour than not giving someone else a writing credit.

Edmondson – her father is Saunders' husband Ade Edmondson – also revealed that her mum made her watch Alien with her when she was only eight as she was too scared to watch it on her own. 

Watch Jennifer Saunders and Beattie Edmondson on Unforgivable below