Filming commenced this week on Kidnapped (w/t), a dramatisation for BBC Three of the real events in 2017 when British model Chloe Ayling was kidnapped in Italy.  

 
Georgia Lester, known for her work on Skins and Killing Eve, has written the six-part drama. It centres on Ayling’s modelling assignment in Milan, and her subsequent abduction. 
 

She was released after nearly a week, and her kidnappers later sentenced to prison. However, Ayling found herself at the centre of a media storm, with headlines accusing her of faking her own kidnapping. 

 
Lester’s scripts were written using extensive interviews, documented legal proceedings and Ayling’s own  book Kidnapped. Al Mackay directs; Clare Shepherd produces. The executive producers are Priscilla Parish, Michael Parke and Andrew Morrissey for BBC Studios, Lucy Richer for the BBC, and writer Lester. 

 
Lester said earlier this year : “Every moment that I have spent researching this series and spending time with Chloe, learning about the ordeal she suffered both by the men who abducted her and the people who doubted her, has been shocking and infuriating.

“It’s been an honour to work with Chloe and I can’t wait for audiences to finally see her courage, her charm and her unwavering resilience.”
 

Chloe Ayling image via BBC.