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David Walliams reportedly arranged meeting with Chloe Ayling after her kidnapping
David Walliams reportedly contacted model Chloe Ayling about six months after her 2017 kidnapping.
Ayling had been abducted and held captive for six days after being lured to a fake fashion shoot in Milan.
Polish brothers Lukasz and Michal Herba were convicted in connection with the kidnapping.
Walliams arranged a meeting at his London home in early 2018, according to a source quoted at the time.
The source said he was interested in Ayling's story and had taken a liking to her, but no later relationship outcome is given.
Ayling had faced online claims that she made up the kidnapping, which the trial judge called incoherent and absurd.
David Walliams reportedly arranged a private meeting with Chloe Ayling at his London home in early 2018, about six months after her 2017 kidnapping.
The Daily Mail said Walliams had contacted Ayling through social media and liked her modelling photos.
Sources quoted by The Sun said Walliams was intrigued by Ayling’s kidnapping ordeal and had taken a shine to her.
Ayling had been kidnapped, drugged and held captive for six days after being lured to a fake fashion shoot in Milan.
Her kidnapper later claimed she had agreed to a fake abduction, but the trial judge described claims that she invented it as “incoherent and absurd”.
- Who
- David Walliams and Chloe Ayling.
- What
- Walliams reportedly arranged a private meeting with Ayling at his London home.
- When
- Early 2018, about six months after Ayling’s 2017 kidnapping.
- Where
- Walliams’s London home.
- Why
- Sources said Walliams was intrigued by Ayling’s kidnapping ordeal and had taken a shine to her.
Chloe Ayling
Lukasz Herba
Whether the kidnapping was real
Chloe Ayling
Ayling said she was kidnapped and held captive, and described befriending her captor as a survival tactic.
Lukasz Herba
Herba told a Milan court that Ayling had agreed to a fake kidnapping.
Ayling was kidnapped, drugged and held captive for six days after being lured to a fake fashion shoot in Milan.
Walliams reportedly befriended Ayling through social media and liked her modelling photos.
Walliams and Ayling reportedly met at his London home before she travelled to Switzerland.
Herba was sentenced to 16 years and nine months, a term later reduced on appeal to 12 years and one month.
- Reported meeting
- Walliams’s London home
- Reported meeting date
- Early 2018
- Kidnapping
- Six days in 2017
- Ransom demand
- £230,000
- Herba’s sentence
- 12 years and one month after appeal
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What people are saying
David orchestrated the meeting and arranged for her to visit his London home. He is intrigued by her story and has taken a shine to her. It's a case of waiting and seeing if their relationship grows from here.
If I was from a better-off family and did something more normal for a living, like a teacher, people would have believed me straight away.