THE first trailer for a BBC drama about kidnapped glamor model Chloe Ayling has been unveiled.
Kidnapped: The Chloe Ayling Story is based on the true story of the British glamor model, who was kidnapped in 2017 after arriving at an address in Milan for a modeling job, but later released.
The chilling moment Chloe Ayling was kidnapped is recreated in the BBC show[/caption]
In one scene, one of Ayling’s captors is seen asking her, “Are you afraid of me?”[/caption]
Ayling is played by actor Nadia Parkes (photo)[/caption]
In a preview clip of the new six-part series. the model is seen being kidnapped when she arrives at an address in the Italian city.
It also shows how Ayling is asked in a TV interview after the incident whether she feels like ‘the person on trial’.
In another scene, one of Ayling’s captors can be seen asking her, “Are you afraid of me?”
She replies, “I was too, but I see that you are not the same as the others.”
Then he says, “I would do anything to help you.”
The trailer then jumps to a TV interview after her release, where she says: “If I wasn’t a model, do you think people would have the same opinion of me? I don’t think so, no.”
The former Celebrity Big Brother contestant was held at a farm near Turin with a ransom demand of 300,000 euros (£265,000).
Six days later, on July 17, she was released at the British Consulate in Milan.
Ayling is played by actor Nadia Parkes, who will star in the series alongside A Spy Among Friends actor Adrian Edmondson and The Capture’s Nigel Lindsay.
The BBC says the new drama will ask the question: “Why was Chloe blamed for her kidnappers’ crimes? How do we relate to survivors of headline-grabbing crimes?
“And what does it feel like to be an ordinary person, caught up in events so extraordinary that you are not believed?”
The series is written by Georgia Lester, who worked on Killing Eve, and is based on research, interviews, the legal proceedings and Ayling’s autobiography Kidnapped – The Untold Story Of My Abduction.
It was made with Ayling’s blessing, with the model saying she is “thrilled” the BBC will be telling “her story”.
The series launches on Wednesday, August 14, with all episodes available on BBC iPlayer from 6am and the first two episodes airing on BBC Three at 9pm.
Filming took place last year in Italy and Great Britain.
First watch Nadia Parkes as Chloe Ayling in the BBC drama[/caption]
The series launches on Wednesday, August 14[/caption]
An Italian police reenactment showing Chloe Ayling being held in a bag[/caption]
Chloe Ayling was kidnapped and drugged in 2017[/caption]
The series comes after The Sun reported earlier this year how Ayling’s kidnapper was released from prison.
Michal Herba, 42, bound and gagged the TV star before locking her in a duffel bag during the horrific kidnapping for the Black Death sex trafficking gang.
He was jailed for 16 years in 2019, but his sentence was reduced to just five years on appeal before he was quietly released in 2022 for good behavior. MailOnline reported.
His brother Lukasz is still behind bars and is expected to be released early next year.
Chloe Ayling relaxes by the pool in an Instagram snap[/caption]
Chloe Ayling poses on the beach in her swimsuit[/caption]
Chloe Ayling said it was ‘six days of hell’[/caption]
Michal is now a truck driver and lives with his mother in an apartment in Szczecin, Poland.
Chloe, 25, was captured by a sex trafficking gang in 2017 and held captive in a remote Italian farm for six days.
Masked men kidnapped her after luring her to Milan with promises of a lucrative photo shoot, which turned out to be fake.
The mother-of-one told police she was then drugged and put in a bag before being auctioned off on the dark web for £250,000 by a group called Black Death.
Chloe broke down in tears during a court hearing as she described the horrifying ordeal.
She said: “I immediately felt sleepy and fell to the floor unconscious. When I woke up I was in a confined space, I was in a black duffel bag.”
Who are the Black Death Group?
THE so-called Black Death group is an organization claiming to be responsible for a network of kidnappings and human trafficking.
Although rumors of its existence have been circulating for several years, the kidnapping of Chloe Ayling in Milan is believed to be the only suspected crime authorities have publicly linked.
The name is infamous in parts of the internet for the apparent scale and depravity of its offenses, although it is not clear whether the photos offering women for sale are authentic, nor whether the name is as skilled as it claims to be .
It is claimed that users of the dark web are paying huge sums of money to buy women kidnapped from across Europe.
A 2015 article from Vice’s Motherboard stated that their reporter had found images of women chained up while the victim was put up for sale for £115,000.
“I had tape around my mouth and I had handcuffs on my wrists and handcuffs on my ankles.”
Lukasz Herba was convicted of kidnapping on June 11, 2018.
After the harrowing ordeal, Chloe ended up on Celebrity Big Brother in 2018, where she became the second person to be evicted.
Her appearance in the series is mainly remembered for her growing relationship with footballer Jermaine Pennant, despite him being married.
Since then, she has been posing for her wild fans on Instagram and even has a successful OnlyFans account.
