New docuseries about kidnapped model announced after previous series filmed in Bolton
New BBC Three series Chloe Ayling: My Unbelievable Kidnapping will see the eponymous model recount, in her own words, the ordeal of her 2017 kidnapping.
Giving her first documentary interview since her abductors' conviction, Chloe revisits the story of her time in captivity and tries to come to terms with what took place, the media reaction and why many people refused to believe her.
No release date has yet been announced.
This comes after the airing of dramatisation Kidnapped: The Chloe Ayling Story last year.
The show, which was partly filmed in Bolton, on the Oldhams Estate and in Le Mans Crescent, followed her abduction and time in captivity, as well as the subsequent court case that put her kidnappers in jail.
Filming for Kidnapped: The Chloe Ayling Story in Selkirk Road in Bolton (Image: Newsquest) In the summer of 2017, it was reported that then-20-year-old glamour model, Chloe, had been kidnapped in Italy by an international criminal gang known as Black Death.
Turning up for what she believed to be a photoshoot in Milan, she was grabbed from behind, drugged and bundled into a bag before being taken to a remote farmhouse and handcuffed to a chest of drawers.
There, Ms Ayling was told she had six days before she would be sold as a sex slave as part of a dark web auction.
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A scene from Kidnapped, shot on the Oldhams Estate Despite the terrifying circumstances, was able to convince her captors to let her walk free and into the hands of the local authorities.
Eight years on, Chloe now wants to challenge any remaining doubters and finally put the past behind her.
Through probing interviews with those involved, the series separates fact from perception and looks at the press coverage of this extraordinary case, the public reaction and asks how a survivor became a suspect.
Speaking about the series, Chloe said: "I'm delighted BBC Studios are telling my story - not only in my own words, but also through the voices of those directly involved.
"For years, people have doubted me, often because they don't understand what really happened - or who I am.
"I think this documentary truly unravels and dives deep into who I am, the events of the kidnapping, as well as the intense media aftermath that tried to define me. I think people will finally see through the headlines."
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