Paparazzi

Selena Gomez found a new way to tell paps to talk to the hand ... but along the way, she pulled a Bieber and almost went off course.

Paps got Selena Sunday night leaving Terroni in L.A., and she really wasn't having it with their questions about backstabbing Bella Hadid by swooping in on The Weeknd.

She also looked a lot like her own ex trying to navigate to the car ... thank God for those handlers.

Justin Bieber had nothing to say -- at least to us -- about Selena Gomez hooking up with The Weeknd ... but he did almost lose his way.

We got the Biebs and Patrick Schwarzenegger at Catch Saturday night ... and as Justin was leaving, he gets disoriented when fans start asking for pictures. You'll recall, he's not that into it anymore.

Uma Thurman's custody hearing with her ex-fiance got off to a rocky start ... for the paparazzo trying to shoot her as she walked into court.

The video's pretty hilarious for everyone but the guy who went down ... hard. To her credit, Uma didn't laugh (out loud) and even took some time to help him up.

Diego Luna must think the paparazzi are with the Empire, and fans are his fellow rebels ... because he was slow to answer but quick on the draw -- with his pen.

We got the 'Rogue One' actor, who plays Rebel leader Captain Cassian Andor, at LAX Thursday where he got swarmed by an army of clones -- "Star Wars" fanboys -- who all wanted an autograph from the franchise's latest star.

Our photog tries asking some legit questions about Hispanics in Hollywood ... but Diego resists and sticks to signing off for his admirers.

The Force is strong with this one.

Justin Bieber doesn't like stupid questions, and if he thinks you're asking one ... he might say a thing or two about your stupid face.

We got the Biebs shopping in Bev Hills Tuesday, and he was very sensitive about paparazzi talking to him about anything. Hockey, Kanye ... it's all off the table.

Kanye West is a man of his word ... at least when it comes to free Yeezys.

We got 'Ye back in November when he promised he'd hand out the shoes for all the paps' hard work. Seemed like big talk at the time, but earlier this week he delivered to a bunch of freelance camera guys. Totally free of charge!

At $200 a pop, it's a pretty generous gift. We're told he also sent out more than 100 pairs to everyone who guessed his album name correctly.

No one can say Mr. West doesn't have sole.

Sofia Richie's easily amused ... at the expense of a couple of paps who were clearly head over heels for her.

We got Sofia out at 1 AM Thursday leaving The Nice Guy ... sans the Biebs. But the night had just begun for her, and an hour later she reappeared -- with Bieber himself -- leaving Doheny Room.

Hope she's not late for work today.

Amber Heard's camp has come out swinging, claiming she did not refuse to have her deposition taken Saturday.

A member of Amber's team tells TMZ ... "Although she was ready, willing and able to go forward with her deposition, it was not taken by Johnny's attorneys. She waited for 10 hours and at no time did Amber ever refuse to start the deposition. There was nothing preventing Johnny's counsel from commencing the deposition."

They do not explain why Johnny Depp's lawyers would not want to grill Amber. As we reported, they were all present and had both a court reporter and videographer at the ready.

The team member also says Johnny's camp agreed to have Johnny's depo taken this Wednesday, but now says they can't make the date.

And they dispute the claim Amber was an hour and a half late for the depo. Even though it was called for 10 AM, they say they "confirmed" Amber would be arriving at 11. And they say she was there at 11, but didn't enter because they were blindsided by paparazzi.

Kim Zolciak's daughter, Brielle, could have a career as a TMZ photog ... at least based on this video of her hammering mom with plastic surgery questions.

Kim and the fam were at LAX when we decided to give Brielle a trial run behind the camera -- and she hit up Kim about some pretty obvious changes to her face.

No joke ... Brielle seems like a natural who even hit up stepdad Kroy Biermann about his future in the NFL. But you gotta see his reaction to the grilling ... same for her little bro.

Entertaining brood for sure.

Rihanna made a comment that was at the same time lighthearted and downright eerie, telling her bodyguard to cut a photog a break because "He's not beating me."

Rihanna was leaving her fav ... Giorgio Baldi restaurant in Santa Monica Thursday night when her bodyguard got a little overprotective.

Chris Brown got pissed at a photog covering a celeb-filled event, and ordered his peeps to regulate ... according to the photog who's now gone to the cops.

It all went down at a launch party on a private yacht last weekend in Fort Lauderdale. Michael Watts, the photog, claims he was taking pics of Chris and Warren Sapp when CB got pissed and began yelling obscenities.

According to the police report filed by Watts -- and obtained by TMZ -- Chris went ballistic during a shot with singer Tank, shouting ... "This ain't no press release, you're done!" Watts claims CB's enforcer then shoved him so hard, he spun around and cracked his $1,200 Canon lens against a wall.

The photog says he left to avoid further confrontation. Chris flatly denies his guy hit anyone, or in his words ... "It's a lie, lie, lie, lie."

Kim Kardashian flew back into L.A. and broke big news ... there's a new momager in town -- or at least that's how it seemed in the chaos at the airport.

Kim and Kris Jenner came back from the Cannes Film Festival together, but check out the video. Instead of Kris barking out orders, Kim was the one in charge at LAX ... maneuvering through the pack of fans and photographers, and directing drivers.

The LAPD is looking into allegations that James Harden roughed up a photog in L.A. on Tuesday night -- allegedly breaking the guy's finger in the process ... TMZ Sports has learned.

This did NOT happen by accident ... Alec Baldwin and his wife going straight into L.A.'s hot zone for paparazzi the day after he exploded on a photog in Beverly Hills.

Tensions had to be high as Alec and Hilaria walked out of Craig's and slowly made their way to their car ... swarmed by paps who were all aware of what went down. In fact, we asked him about "the incident," straight up.

Watch how it plays out. Hilaria looks very worried about his reaction in the situation, but it's obvious Alec did this to make a point: that he can play nice with the paparazzi.

It's also pretty clear when he gets in the car ... this probably wasn't HIS idea.

Alec Baldwin exploded in anger Tuesday, getting in a photographer's face and berating him for shooting Baldwin's wife.

Baldwin and Hilaria were in Bev Hills when he unleashed on the photog with ear-shattering volume, ordering him to "shut up."

It's unclear what preceded Baldwin's tirade, but he tells the photog in no uncertain terms his wife is out of bounds for the paparazzi ... interesting for sure, because Hilaria is a prolific Instagram user who chronicles her life on the app. She's also a correspondent for "Extra."

It's even more interesting ... Baldwin wrote an essay where he said he was moving from New York to California because he can't stand the paparazzi presence in the Big Apple. He wrote in New York Magazine, "L.A. is a place where you live behind a gate, you get in a car, your interaction with the public is minimal."

The incident occurred in a very public part of town ... Bedford Drive in Beverly Hills.

Ever get busted calling in sick to work -- when you really went to Vegas instead???