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PALOMA FAITH

Eccentricity and melodrama pervade Paloma Faith’s biggest hits – and she channels a strange, stagy absurdity again as villain Bet Sykes in Gotham prequel show Pennyworth. But if you’re expecting the typical pop-startries-acting cartoonery, think again. Jessica Rabbit meets Poison Ivy this ain’t.

Created by ’s Bruno Heller and set in a dystopian ’60s London, the series explores the early life of SAS soldier-turned-security guru (and future Wayne butler) Alfred Pennyworth. Paloma’s murderous baddie

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