TV star Katherine Ryan has reported her neighbours after they built a balcony overlooking her swimming pool.

Le comédien, 38, took action after they built the looming structure without planning permission.

Katherine said it was erected without permission and builders have been peering over the balcony to watch her 12-year-old daugher and her school friends swimming.

“Due to my background in urban planning, I was able to report them,” said the Canadian comic, who studied city planning at university in Toronto.

“I’m not a snitch, but their prejudicing of my property actually devalues my property.”

She added to Courrier en ligne: “I have 12-year-old girls in the swimming pool and then a bunch of builders like leaning over that balcony smoking.

“I rang the council. ‘I feel bad about it, but then I convinced myself not to. They have to take it down.”

Katherine lives with her childhood sweetheart Bobby Kootstra who she has been in a civil partnership with since 2019.

She is already mum to 12-year-old Violet from a previous relationship, and shares son Fred with Bobby.

She previously said of her relationship: “Magically my high school boyfriend walked into my life and I did everything possible not to marry him.

“I really was against partnership at that point. I was looking forward to ageing alone with many dogs. And then I just loved him too much.”

The writer, presenter and actress is currently based in north London, after coming to Britain in 2008 with her then boyfriend – and never left.

Ces jours, she features regularly on television panel shows such as QI, Mock the Week, 8 Hors de 10 Cats, Have I Got News for You and comedy roast show, Safeword – where she’s team leader.

She has also been a columnist for NME and acted in shows such as BBC Two series Episodes.