David Beckham?s presence makes the press ignore Lindsay Lohan

All celebrities take note: if you want to live your life with some measure of privacy and not have the paparazzi give a crap about you, you need to become friends with David Beckham. It seems that when Becks is around, no one gives a crap about any other celebs. Any and all who hate being followed by the paps: get yourself a David Beckham. Or a David Beckham impersonator. Hell, even a well crafted cardboard cutout might work well. According to E! News, it worked great for Lindsay Lohan – who was pretty much completely ignored in Beckham’s presence.

If Lindsay Lohan ever decides to be keep a lower profile, she should consider spending more time around David Beckham. Lohan and her gal-pal Samantha Ronson were on the same flight to New York today as the soccer hunk.

When the two girls got to the luggage carousel, there wasn't much fuss: Some kids asked for autographs and a single paparazzo snapped some pics.

Then Beckham sauntered to the carousel

"About 25 people ran over to him, and there were at least five photographers who showed up out of nowhere taking photos," a source reports. Beckham had to hightail it to NYC after last night's ESPY Awards in Hollywood to get ready for Saturday's Los Angeles Galaxy game against the New York Red Bulls.

[From E! News]

I am currently papier-mâché-ing (that’s a really hard word to conjugate) a life-size Beckham as we speak, to keep the paparazzi from following me. Every morning when I leave the house there’s this guy across the street with his camera. Always sitting on his couch, aiming the zoom out the window at my apartment. Oddly he does it a lot at night, too. Into my window. Weird.

I’m absolutely convinced he’s with X17 and is following me. He just bought that house 7 years ago knowing I’d move to the fanciest part of Brooklyn, become crazy famous, and be a great paparazzi target. Now that I have my faux-Beckham to carry around with me, the guy will have something better to do. Plus, being seen with David Beckham makes me look cool. It’s a win-win.

Here are David and Victoria Beckham (last photo with Candace Parker) at the 2008 ESPY Awards in Los Angeles on Wednesday. Images thanks to WENN.