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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Jack Seale

Kidnapped: The Chloe Ayling Story review – TV as nonsensical as the crime it’s based on

Chloe Ayling (played by Nadia Parkes) standing in a garden, reading a statement to reporters
Nadia Parkes as the title character in Kidnapped: The Chloe Ayling Story. Photograph: Sally Mais/BBC/PA

What would you do? How would you react, in this extraordinary situation? That question underpins all drama to an extent but is particularly crucial in Kidnapped: The Chloe Ayling Story, a dramatisation of real but disputed events.

Chloe Ayling is a British model who, in 2017, was abducted. She was hired via her agent for a photoshoot in Milan, but when the 20-year-old arrived at the given location, a quiet building in a back street, masked men attacked her, doped her with ketamine and drove her to a remote farmhouse. Six days later she turned up at the British consulate in Milan, having been released despite a ransom demand not having been paid.

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