this is ridiculous:

'Runaway Bride' sells story to US television executives
Thu Jun 16, 1:35 PM ET



Jennifer Wilbanks, the so-called "Runaway Bride" who fled just days before her wedding and initially pretended to have been kidnapped, has sold her story to US television executives, according to the company that bought the rights to the tale.

Wilbanks, 32, was sentenced to two years' probation and 120 hours of community service for making a false statement to authorities and reporting a false crime.

She also had to pay local police 15,500 dollars to reimburse them for expenses incurred while searching for her.

New York-based firm ReganMedia said in a statement that it was "currently developing a scripted television project based on the Wilbanks-Mason story," involving the would-be bride and her fiance, John Mason, who still plan to marry at a later date.

ReganMedia did not reveal the amount of the deal, but the Atlanta Journal-Constitution said it was thought to be around half a million dollars.

On April 26 -- about a week before her wedding -- Wilbanks left her house in Duluth, Georgia, near Atlanta, claiming she was going jogging, but never returned.

Authorities mounted a massive search to find her. Four days later -- just one day before her planned wedding -- Wilbanks called her family, saying she had been kidnapped by a Hispanic man and a white woman, who were armed.

She finally turned up in Albuquerque, New Mexico and later said she had gone by bus to Las Vegas, Nevada. She also cut her hair to mask her identity.



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