A controversial new ITV drama stars Sheridan Smith as an online gambling addict who seizes upon lucrative insider information she finds at the City office where she is working as a zero-hours contract cleaner.
Cleaning Up, an unashamedly political series, follows Sam, a struggling mother-of-two, who asks why should the greedy bastards get rich while we get shafted?
Although she knows insider trading is against the law, Sam and her resourceful team of cleaners use the trading secrets they discover to wipe out their debts and make some real money.
Victimless crime?
The Bafta-winning Smith said that she sympathised with the actions of her character, who has 15,000 of online gambling debts and is faced with losing custody of her two…
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