Critic Mark Shenton suggested she looks "like a cross between Lucille Ball and Marj Proops"; Quentin Letts of the Daily Mail asked, a little ungallantly, "is that Garfield, sat on her head?". The reviews for the London Old Vic's new production of Tennessee Williams's Sweet Bird of Youth have been good, on the whole – but the same can't be said of Kim Cattrall's hairpiece, which Shenton went on to dub "the worst wig".
Which got us thinking: is that (reproduced above in all its Garfield glory) really the most awful wig of all time? Worse than Tommy Lee Jones's roiling, terminally unstable black coils in Lincoln?
Worse than Rory Kinnear's Matted Old-Testament Hermit Hair in The Revenger's Tragedy?
Worse than Anne Hathaway's peroxide helmet in Brokeback Mountain?
Worse than Sheridan Smith's chestnut mullet as Hedda Gabler?
Worse even than Mark Gatiss's spaniel-like King Charles? (The last was intentionally bad, at least we think.)
In fact, the more we think about it, there are plenty of fine candidates for worst hair in theatrical and filmic history – name and shame them below.
