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Joanna Page Recounts Being Held Hostage by Taxi Driver During BBC Shoot in South Africa

She shared the 90-minute account on a podcast tied to promotion of her memoir.

Overview

  • Page says a man who claimed to be a taxi driver drove her around for about 90 minutes and threatened to force her to strip for photos.
  • She recounts that the incident happened during filming of the 2005 BBC miniseries To the Ends of the Earth after she ignored advice to use a chaperone.
  • According to her account, she tried to keep the driver talking and joking until he returned her to the hotel, where staff warned she had been very lucky.
  • Coverage notes that Benedict Cumberbatch was abducted in a separate incident weeks later during the same production, as previously reported.
  • Page has also described past sexual misconduct in her career, including being groped by a TV host, and says she did not name him in print following legal advice.