Celebrity-stalking photographers massed outside the coffee shop in Malibu where Shirley MacLaine had stopped with her canine soul mate, Terry.

The actress said: "I was so appalled. They were kind of waiting for Terry to walk out and perhaps take a poop or something, because she's famous herself, and what would I do about the poop? And would they make me mad? Because the whole point is, they want to make you mad, and then they get a good picture."

Luckily, the actress ran into two stunt men she had worked with. They gathered a group of men who huddled around and whisked MacLaine and Terry to her car, blocking them from view; the paparazzi never saw her leave.

So the photographers "got no poop and they got no me," MacLaine gloated.

MacLaine is now busy promoting her latest film, "In Her Shoes", in which she played alongside Cameron Diaz and Jennifer Aniston.