Sometime in the future Ellen DeGeneres hopes to be changing diapers and adding warm milk to a baby's bottle. Imagine that!

Ellen and her partner Portia de Rossi have said they want to have a baby but cannot decide which of them will give birth to the child.

When Ellen DeGeneres revealed she was a lesbian and stepped out on to the red carpet with actress Anne Heche, a new type of Hollywood couple was born.

However, the Academy Awards host says she has finally found "completion" with Australian star Portia De Rossi.

Like a movie scene out of the ordinary, comedian Ellen DeGeneres has thanked the paparazzi for hitting her car.

It has been revealed the vehicle that shunted the talk show host's automobile in a three car smash in West Hollywood last Friday was being driven by two photographers from a news agency.

Ellen DeGeneres and her gay lover Portia de Rossi are said to be okay after narrowly escaping serious injury in a car crash in Los Angeles.

The couple - who sustained a mix of neck and back injuries - were involved in the accident at a traffic light on Sunset Boulevard on Friday afternoon when they, and the car behind them, were shunted by another driver who failed to brake in time.