Shilpa Shetty's shoot that never happened

The cinema and television worker's two-day strike this week found an unusual victim in Shilpa Shetty. While other film folks just stayed away for an impromptu holiday when the film industry's workers went on strike, Shilpa Shetty was caught in a peculiar situation.
Shilpa Shetty on the cover of People
Coincidentally, she was the only major film star scheduled to shoot for a television programme. Bigg Boss, as it happened to be. It seems all other cine-celebs like Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan and Akshay Kumar have gathered their loot and run home from the home medium, leaving the coast clear for Shilpa who has to fly down to Mumbai for the Bigg Boss recording every Friday, no matter which part of the world she is in.
This Friday proved to be a nightmare. Unaware of the workers' strike in the industry she flew from Singapore to Mumbai and drove all the way to Karjat for the shoot, only to be told that she may not be allowed to.
But before Shilpa could backtrack she was assured that a solution was being worked out even as she waited on Friday to record for the reality show.
Finally, Shilpa was not seen by Bigg Boss viewers.
Says the shaken actress. "It was quite a nightmare. I waited the whole day at Karjat for my shoot, and finally left without doing so. That's why I was missing on Friday's episode of Bigg Boss. So many people have been calling and messaging thinking I'm unwell or something's wrong. But I couldn't shoot because of the strike."