Kidnapped: The Chloe Ayling Story review: A nightmarish kidnap ordeal or a staged publicity stunt?, writes CHRISTOPHER STEVENS By Christopher Stevens For The Daily Mail Published: 01:00, 16 August 2024 | Updated: 01:15, 16 August 2024 e-mail View comments Kidnapped: The Chloe Ayling Story (BBC1) Rating: North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un uses lookalikes as decoys to foil assassins. Russian president Vladimir Putin reputedly has a squad of them. And now Piers Morgan too has his own body double.
Robert Glenister mimicked the abrasive presenter’s gestures and voice with uncanny accuracy, in the true crime drama Kidnapped: The Chloe Ayling Story. Using an exact transcript from Good Morning Britain , he slumped in a pose that conveyed both boredom and irritation, beside Louise Delamere as co-host Susannah Reid. The scene supplied a neat device to explain this story, as Piers and Susannah summed up why Chloe (played here by Nadia Parkes) was on the show.
In Milan for a photoshoot in 2017, she was seized by masked men, who drugged her before she was held for ransom at a farmhouse in the Italian mountains. A sceptical Piers accused her of lying to the police and demanded why, if she was being held hostage, one of her captors took her shopping in a nearby village. Chloe Ayling's (pictured: Nadia Parkes playing Chloe) horrific story has been retold in a new TV series, Kidnapped The six-part drama follows terrifying kidnap, her bravery in captivity and the court case that put her kidna.