THE first trailer for a BBC drama about kidnapped glamour model Chloe Ayling has been revealed.
Kidnapped: The Chloe Ayling Story is based on the true story of the British glamour model, who was abducted in 2017 after arriving at an address in Milan for a modelling job, but was later released.
In a preview clip of the new six-part series. the model is seen being abducted as she arrives at an address in the Italian city.
Ayling can also be seen being asked whether she feels like “the person on trial” in a TV interview after the incident.
In another scene, one of Ayling’s kidnappers can be seen asking her: “Are you scared of me?”
She replies: “I was, but I can see that you’re not the same as the others.”
He then says: “I would do anything to help you.”
The trailer then skips forward to a TV interview following her release, where she says: “If I was not a model, do you think people would have the same opinions of me? I don’t think so, no.”
The former Celebrity Big Brother contestant was held in a farmhouse near Turin while a 300,000 euro (£265,000) ransom was demanded.
She was released six days later, on July 17, at the British consulate in Milan.
Ayling will be 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: “Why Chloe was blamed for her kidnappers’ crimes? How do we relate to survivors of crime who make the front pages?
“And how does it feel to be an ordinary person, caught up in events so extraordinary that you aren’t believed?”
The series is written by Georgia Lester, who worked on Killing Eve, and based on research, interviews, the legal proceedings and Ayling’s autobiography Kidnapped – The Untold Story Of My Abduction.
It has been made with Ayling’s blessing, with the model saying she is “excited” that the BBC will tell “her story”.
The series will launch on Wednesday, August 14, with all episodes available on the BBC iPlayer from 6am, and the first two episodes being aired on BBC Three at 9pm.
Filming took place in Italy and the UK last year.
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 trapping her inside a duffle bag in the horrifying kidnapping for the Black Death sex trafficking gang.
He was jailed for 16-years in 2019 but his sentence was reduced to only five-years on appeal before he was quietly released in 2022 on good behaviour, MailOnline reported.
His brother Lukasz is still behind bars and he is expected to be released early next year.
Michal is now a truck driver living in Szczecin, Poland with his mother in an apartment.
Chloe, 25, was snatched by a sex trafficking gang in 2017 and held captive for six days in a remote Italian farmhouse.
Masked men kidnapped her after luring her to Milan with promises of a lucrative photoshoot which turned out to be fake.
The mum-of-one told police she was then drugged and stuffed inside a bag before being auctioned on the dark web for £250,000 from a group called Black Death.
Chloe broke down in tears at a court hearing as she described the chilling ordeal.
She said: “Straight away I felt drowsy and I fell to the floor unconscious. When I started to wake up I was in a restricted space, I was in a black duffel bag.”
THE so-called Black Death group is an organisation which claims to be responsible for a network of kidnapping and people trafficking.
Although rumours of its existence have circulated for several years, the kidnapping of Chloe Ayling in Milan is believed to be the only suspected crime authorities have publicly linked it to.
The name is notorious on sections of the internet due to the apparent scale and depravity of its offending, though it’s not clear if its photos touting women for sale are authentic, nor if it is as proficient as it claims to be.
It’s claimed that users of the dark web pay huge fees to buy women who have been kidnapped from across Europe.
A 2015 article by Vice’s Motherboard stated their reporter had found images of women chained up with the victim being offered for sale £115,000.
“I had tape all 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.
Following the harrowing ordeal, Chloe landed a spot on 2018’s Celebrity Big Brother, where she became the second person to be evicted.
Her appearance on the series is remembered most notably for her growing relationship with footballer Jermaine Pennant, despite him being married.
Since then she has been posing on Instagram for her wild fans and even has a successful OnlyFans account.
