Britney 'runs over photographer's foot'
Hours after losing visitation rights with her two young sons, Britney Spears apparently ran over the foot of a celebrity photographer.
Spears was driving away from a Beverly Hills medical building, her car surrounded by photographers, when the incident occurred on Thursday.
Messages left with her attorney were not immediately returned.
Video posted on the Hollywood.TV website shows elements of the incident but not the tyre rolling over the cameraman’s foot.
The video shows Spears beginning to pull out of the structure when her car is surrounded by more than a dozen photographers. The car comes to a stop.
Spears honks and the car lurches forward a few feet. Shouting is heard, and the camera jerks around as fellow photographers appear to help a man up.
Spears drives off and seconds later video shows what appears to be a tyre mark on the photographer’s sock. The man, wearing sandals with white socks, does not respond to questions from the others as he walks away, apparently unhurt.
Supervising producer Gillian Sheldon confirmed Friday that the photographer was employed by celebrity website TMZ.com. She said there were no plans to file a police report.
In a statement released by TMZ, the photographer indicated he was not angry.
“Things happen at certain times and she was just a little impatient,” said the man, whose name was not released. “She got a little impatient for whatever reason. I say let bygones be bygones.”
On its website, TMZ said it was putting the photographer’s sock on e-Bay, and proceeds would go to the Children’s Defence Fund in Spears’ name.
Earlier that day, Spears, 25, learned she can no longer visit her two pre-school-age sons, who are in the custody of ex-husband Kevin Federline, until she complies with an order from Superior Court Commissioner Scott Gordon.
Gordon’s ruling did not spell out what directives Spears had defied, but a hearing was scheduled for October 26.
Previously, though, Gordon has ordered Spears to undergo random drug and alcohol testing twice a week and to meet weekly with a “parenting coach.”
Spears faces charges of hit and run and driving without a valid licence as the result of an August 6 car park mishap.
In that incident, paparazzi photographed Spears steering her car into another vehicle as she tried to park in a space in a Studio City car par.
The video showed her walking away after assessing the damage to her own car.
