Following in the embarrassing footsteps of Eugene Robinson, Eddie Murphy and Hugh Grant, David Beckham has become the most recent star to be accused of attaining, ahem… “hired help.”

In response to an In Touch Weekly article, which accuses one of the world’s most recognizable athletes of sexual infidelity, Mr. Beckham has allegedly given his attorneys a blank check to clear his name. Let’s hope he didn’t mimic Jerry Springer and hand over one of those very same personal checks to his high-dollar business associate.

Whether or not these accusations are true, this story is still quite amusing… to everyone except Posh Spice, of course. Either a Beckham-obsessed female posed as a call girl and publicly accused the soccer star of paying her five figures for sexual favors or Beckham actually paid ten grand to get laid, giving the phrase “Bending it like Beckham” a whole new meaning.

This article appears in Sep 23-29, 2010.