Media firm signs runaway bride

Runaway bride Jennifer Wilbanks has struck a deal for a TV project about her misadventures.

ReganMedia, which publishes books and produces TV shows and movies, said Thursday that it had acquired all media rights to the stories of Wilbanks and her fiance, John Mason. The New York company did not say whether any money had changed hands.

In a statement, company President Judith Regan called the tale “an unexpected and compelling story of love and forgiveness that has certainly taught me a thing or two.” The 32-year-old nurse disappeared from her Duluth home on April 26, four days before a wedding that was supposed to have 600 guests and 28 attendants. After taking a bus to Albuquerque, N.M., she claimed she was abducted and sexually assaulted, but later recanted, saying she fled because of unspecified personal issues.