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Kidnapped: The Chloe Ayling Story review: A nightmarish kidnap ordeal or a staged publicity stunt?, writes CHRISTOPHER STEVENS


CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: This six-part drama takes Chloe's story at face value but invites viewers to supply their own explanations for what was really going on.

Robert Glenister mimicked the abrasive presenter’s gestures and voice with uncanny accuracy, in the true crime drama Kidnapped: The Chloe Ayling Story. In a prime illustration of how TV is obsessed with celebrity and itself, the real Chloe turned up with actress Nadia on the sofa again yesterday, to be interviewed for This Morning by Rylan and Josie Gibson. But as he begs her for sex, and tries to win her trust by bringing her food and letting her sleep in his bed, she doesn’t know whether he’s a lonely fantasist or a pawn in an organised crime gang — and her only hope of survival.

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