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A DOCTOR Who star has transformed into Chloe Ayling for her new BBC thriller on her terrifying kidnapping.
The model and former Celebrity Big Brother star, 26, was snatched by a sex trafficking gang and held captive for six days in a remote Italian farmhouse.
Nadia Parkes, pictured, will play the model for the six-part series[/caption]
Masked men kidnapped her after luring her to Milan with promises of a lucrative photoshoot which turned out to be fake.
BBC bosses are dramatising the horrific ordeal in a brand new BBC Three thriller called Kidnapped.
The broadcaster has revealed Nadia Parkes will play the model for the six-part series.
A first look image shows Nadia, 28, in the role as her character faces the press.
The show will tell Ayling’s story based on her own book about the event.
It will also draw on detailed research, extensive interviews and documented legal proceedings.
Georgia Lester, who is best known for writing Channel 4‘s Skins and smash-hit show Killing Eve, has penned the series.
The Beeb has not yet revealed when the show will air but it’s expected later this year.
Previously speaking about the show, Chloe told the Mirror: “I am excited that BBC Studios are telling my story and that the wider world will get to know the truth about what happened to me and learn of the many details that weren’t brought to light originally.
“Georgia Lester and the team have been incredibly supportive in our conversations, and I couldn’t be happier that they are making this series.”
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The publisher describes the book’s hero as “a self-employed forensic accountant, a veteran of the long guerilla war between people who want to hide money, and people who want to find it. ”
He knows computer hardware and software alike, including the ins and outs of high-end databases and the kinds of spreadsheets that are designed to conceal rather than reveal. He’s as comfortable with social media as people a quarter his age, and he’s a world-level expert on the kind of international money-laundering and shell-company chicanery used by Fortune 500 companies, mid-divorce billionaires, and international drug gangs alike.
He also knows the Valley like the back of his hand, all the secret histories of charismatic company founders and Sand Hill Road VCs. Because he was there at all the beginnings. He’s not famous, except to the people who matter. He’s made some pretty powerful people happy in his time, and he’s been paid pretty well. It’s been a good life.
Now he’s been roped into a job that’s more dangerous than anything he’s ever agreed to before — and it will take every ounce of his skill to get out alive.
“I write when I’m anxious, and right now these are anxious times,” Doctorow explained last month in Publisher’s Weekly, describing what he’d learned about selling audiobooks without going through Amazon’s service Audible. This time Cory got 4,080 backers to pledge $152,735 to fund an audiobook for Red Team Blues read by Wil Wheaton that his Kickstarter campaign stressed would be DRM-free. (“Every audiobook sold on Audible be wrapped in Amazon’s Digital Rights Management technology, which is a felony for you to remove, even if the copyright holder asks you to. It’s punishable by a five-year prison sentence and a $500,000 fine!”)
Red Team Blues is the first book in a new trilogy, and Cory is now making in-person appearances to promote the book — starting today (and tomorrow) at the LA Times Festival of Books at the University of Southern California. Tuesday he’ll be in San Diego, and a week from Sunday he’s appearing in San Francisco, before heading to Portland, Mountain View, Berkeley, and Gaithersburg Maryland.
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