SYDNEY – Australian Bollywood actress Tania Zaetta was arrested Monday for obstructing police and public nuisance over an alleged disturbance at a Queensland nightclub.
Zaetta, who recently moved back to Australia after several years based overseas, was detained in Surfers Paradise early Monday. “It seems a 41-year-old woman from New South Wales was arrested for obstructing police and also public nuisance,” a spokesman for Queensland police told, without naming the woman.
According to a statement released by her management, Zaetta will “protest her innocence to the charges and strenuously defend the matters in court”.
“She looks forward to mounting her defense and to clearing this matter up through the appropriate channels,” the statement said. “Any inference or suggestion through media reports that alcohol has played any role in this matter is ludicrous and baseless.”
Zaetta rose to prominence in Australia as a host of the game show ‘Who Dares Wins,’ a program modelled on its British counterpart which required her to perform daredevil stunts.
More recently, she has worked on a number of Bollywood productions including the Charlie’s Angels-style hit ‘Mr Black, Mr White’ and one featuring Indian megastar Amitabh Bachchan ‘Bunty aur Babli.’
