Reality TV contestant and former Penthouse cover girl Suzi Taylor is fighting a conviction for assault following a fracas in a Brisbane hotel lobby as part of a media sting.
Taylor, whose real name is Suellen Jan Taylor, escaped punishment after being found guilty in October of assaulting a furniture removalist.
The former contestant on home renovation series The Block was not in the Brisbane District Court on Thursday when her lawyers appealed the conviction.
Taylor, now 51, was charged after the altercation with Thelma Anderson at the Gambaro Hotel in January 2020.
The pair had agreed to meet so Ms Anderson could give Taylor a partial refund.
However, the meeting turned hostile when Taylor noticed she was being filmed by a cameraman from Nine - the same network that helped her rise to fame.
At one point, Ms Anderson also began filming Taylor, calling her names like "filthy slut" and "f***ing c***".
Footage of the incident showed Taylor grab Ms Anderson's mobile phone during the confrontation.
Brisbane magistrate Rosemary Gilbert cleared Taylor of stealing the device while finding she assaulted Ms Anderson when she grabbed it.
Ms Gilbert said it was clear Ms Anderson set up the meeting for the purpose of there being filming, and that Taylor's reaction was predictable.
"It would be churlish of me to take the view that what flowed from there would be not unexpected," she added.
Taylor is appealing her conviction on the basis that either Ms Anderson was a consenting party to the application of force or that her conduct was provocative, the court was told.
Barrister Russell Pearce also claimed there was a miscarriage of justice because the way the assault charge was particularised by prosecutors was not the basis on which she was convicted.
Defence lawyer Michael Gatenby had conducted his case based on the Crown's allegation the assault was a push to Ms Anderson's shoulder, while Ms Gilbert convicted her in relation to the phone snatching, Mr Pearce said.
The Crown conceded prosecutors had not applied for the particulars about the assault to be amended.
Judge Vicki Loury said the circumstances need to be considered as a whole, "not in a piecemeal way".
She will hand down her decision at a date yet to be decided.
