A drunken New York-based TV producer unleashed a foul-mouthed torrent of abuse and bit a woman police officer after being questioned by officers at a beach.

Yesterday, Tamara Lodge, a British national, was fined a total of $5,600 after she admitted two charges of assault on police officers and two charges of using offensive words at Horseshoe Bay on Tuesday.

Magistrates’ Court heard that police were called after reports of an assault at the beach at about 10pm.

Officers noticed that Lodge, 33, smelled of alcohol and was unsteady on her feet after they tried to speak to her.

Police asked her if she needed medical attention, but Lodge said: “I don’t need anything from you.”

Lodge has worked as producer on the award-winning CNN food and travel show Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown, featuring the top chef.

She has also worked for the hit BBC programme The One Show in Britain.

Prosecutor Carrington Mahoney told the court that when Lodge could not provide a local address, officers believed she was unable to look after herself and explained the offence of being drunk and disorderly in public.

Lodge, who works for Zero Point Zero Production in New York, became angry when police tried to arrest her, and hurled insults at them.

She told one officer: “F**k you, you f*****g t**t.”

And she called a woman officer “a f*****g trailer b***h” and shouted “F**k you, you black f*****g c**t”.

Lodge then bit the woman officer on her right arm and left her with visible marks that needed hospital treatment.

She also hit the other officer across the cheek.

Lodge was ultimately arrested and taken to Hamilton Police Station.

Mr Mahoney told magistrate Khamisi Tokunbo that Lodge, whose address was given in court as Camp Hill, Southampton, was a visitor to the island and due to leave that day.

Lodge told the court she had no recollection of the offences and added that she was “incredibly ashamed and horrified”.

She said she had been drinking on the beach with a group of people.

When they left, she went swimming with a group of younger men, who became “overly amorous”.

Lodge said this scared her and she returned to the bar.

She added that her next memory was being fingerprinted by police. And Lodge told the court the offences were “out of character” and that she was on medication. She said: “I should have known better than to drink anything.”

Mr Tokunbo told Lodge it was a pity she had drunk so much that she could not remember the events and that she had assaulted police officers who were trying to help her.

Duty counsel Alexandra Wheatley said that Lodge had no previous convictions and that the offence might never have happened if she had not been drinking.

Mr Tokunbo said: “That might be so but it can’t be overlooked what the consequence of that drinking was.”

He added that “the sentence must reflect the seriousness of the offences”.

Mr Tokunbo fined Lodge a total of $5,000 for the two assaults on the police officers and a total of $600 for threatening them. He added that the money must be paid before Lodge left Bermuda and ordered her to surrender her travel documents, which would be returned when she paid the fines.

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