Roberts takes on paparazzi

Silver-screen sprite Julia Roberts is fed up with intrusive paparazzi, and she is letting them know it.

Silver-screen sprite Julia Roberts is fed up with intrusive paparazzi, and she is letting them know it.

The slightly-built star who played Tinkerbell in 'Hook' was videotaped in Malibu wildly tailing two videographers, flagging them down and lecturing them for taping her near a school.

The footage, taken by freelance videographers for the celebrity news and photo agency Splash and broadcast by 'Inside Edition', shows Roberts driving in a Mercedes SUV behind the men, hooting and waving at them to stop.

"I'm going to talk to you about the fact that you're at a school where children go. Turn it off," Roberts, 40, said in the footage, standing outside their car and pointing at the videographers after they pulled over.

While driving, the Oscar-winning star of 'Erin Brockovich' crossed over a double yellow line, and did not have children in her car, Splash said.

Roberts has two-year-old twins and an almost six-month-old son with her husband, cinematographer Danny Moder.

The TV show 'Extra' reported that the incident occurred after Roberts was followed to her children's school on Wednesday. Roberts told the programme that taking her picture was one thing, but a school was "not the place to wait to do it".

Roberts was the second A-list celebrity in two weeks to be videotaped admonishing the paparazzi on the road.

A video clip posted on TMZ.com showed actor George Clooney riding his motorcycle on November 16 in Los Angeles, then pulling off to the side of a street, telling photographers: "You can drive all you want, you can take my picture all you want, but what you cannot do is put people in danger."

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