Tarzan series actor killed in plane crash

All seven passengers aboard a plane, including Tarzan actor Joe Lara and his diet guru wife, died after it crashed in a lake near the US city of Nashville, authorities said.

The business jet crashed at around 11am local time on Saturday, shortly after taking off from the Smyrna, Tennessee airport for Palm Beach, Florida, Rutherford County Fire & Rescue (RCFR) said on Facebook. The plane went down into Percy Priest Lake, about 19km south of Nashville.

Lara played Tarzan in the 1989 movie Tarzan in Manhattan. He later starred in the TV series Tarzan: The

Epic Adventures, which ran from 1996-97.

His wife Gwen Shamblin Lara, whom he married in 2018, was the leader of a Christian weight-loss group called Weigh Down Ministries.

She founded the group in 1986, and then in 1999 founded the Remnant Fellowship Church in Brentwood, Tennessee.