Spears’ return to LA begins with scuffle

Los Angeles – Britney Spears is back in Los Angeles, and it didn’t take long for trouble to find her.

Within moments of arriving at Los Angeles International Airport on Friday evening, Spears’ entourage was involved in a scuffle with a paparazzo.

Between 30 and 35 photographers swarmed her vehicle outside the terminal before a bodyguard pushed a camera into a photographer’s face, airport police Sgt. Jim Holcomb said.

Holcomb said the paparazzo complained that the shove left a slight mark on the cheek, but cooler heads prevailed and no charges were filed.

The 26-year-old pop star was unscathed, and Holcomb says officers ensured she was able to leave the airport safely.

Ellen DeGeneres plans dream wedding

Los Angeles – Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi have set a wedding date, and to hear the talk show host tell it, the ceremony is going to be a doozy.

DeGeneres, who won her fourth consecutive Daytime Emmy for talk show host Friday night, told reporters backstage at the Kodak Theatre that she and de Rossi are planning their “dream wedding.”

“Yes, we have set a wedding date,” DeGeneres said. “How do I feel about it? I obviously feel like it’s long overdue. I think someday people will look back on this like women not having the right to vote and segregation and anything else that seems ridiculous that we don’t all have the same rights.”

While the day is on the calendar, DeGeneres didn’t say when or where it would take place.

DeGeneres said she plans to fly the de Rossi family in from Australia and that “incredible people” would sing at the ceremony. She said she would show “a tiny bit” of the nuptials on her talk show – and joked that she would use her latest Daytime Emmy as a wedding-cake topper.

Paparazzo sues actor Harrelson for $2.5M

Los Angeles – Woody Harrelson has been sued for $2.5 million by a paparazzo who accused the actor of assaulting him and breaking his video camera two years ago.

According to a lawsuit filed Friday in Los Angeles Superior Court, Josh Levine was filming Harrelson in Hollywood late one night in June 2006. He alleges the Academy Award-nominated actor choked him, broke his video camera and ordered his bodyguard to attack him.

Levine’s suit says he still has mental, physical and emotional pain from the encounter. He is also suing the unidentified bodyguard.

Harrelson’s publicist could not immediately be reached for comment.