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‘Love Trapped’ Podcast Featuring Former ‘Bachelor’ Star Clayton Echard Being Adapted As True-Crime Series For Peacock
Peacock has ordered a four-part true-crime docuseries about Laura Owens and former Bachelor star Clayton Echard, adapting the iHeart podcast Love Trapped. The series will examine Owens’s claim that she was pregnant with Echard’s twins after their brief relationship, and the case’s wider unravelling.
Owens was sentenced to a month in jail last month after faking a pregnancy to entrap Echard. The docuseries, due next year, will include interviews with Echard, his legal team, Owens’s mother, other men Owens targeted, podcast host Stephani Young and online investigators; Owens will also speak about her experience for the first time. Glass Entertainment Group and Crybaby Media are producing the series.
In short
- Peacock ordered a four-part series based on Love Trapped.
- Laura Owens was sentenced to a month in jail.
- The series will include Owens’s first account of her experience.
Explained simply
Clayton Echard is a former contestant on the US dating programme The Bachelor. Laura Owens said she was pregnant with twins after a brief relationship with him, a claim that led to a legal dispute and wider public attention.
The case also drew interest because Owens had been accused of making similar pregnancy claims involving other men. The podcast Love Trapped followed the case and the people investigating it; a television adaptation is planned to include interviews with Echard, Owens and others connected to the events.