A MAN who claimed to have spent £20,000 on plastic surgery to look like David Beckham says taxpayers will pay for his next nose job... and the rest of his life.

Jack Johnson, now 20, hit the headlines earlier this year when he claimed that he had LIED about his obsession with looking like the footballer in order to get invited on to daytime TV show This Morning.

3 Jack 'Beckham' Johnson is determined to look like David Beckham Credit: INSTAGRAM

Jack claimed he lied about splashing thousands on a variety of cosmetic procedures, including Botox, tanning injections, lip fillers and having his teeth done, in order to emulate the global star.

But he's now changed track, and decided that he DOES want to look like the footballer ace - and that his transformation will be funded by the state.

He told The Sun Online: "I'm going to Poland soon to have work done to my face to look like him and taxpayers will be paying for it.

"Taxpayers are paying for my champagne lifestyle and will continue to pay because I have got depression.

"I was diagnosed with a very mild case of it, but depression is depression.

"Why should I work when you can have David Beckham's lifestyle by just staying home?"

Depression can be recognised as a disability if it has a 'long-term effect' on your day-to-day activity, as defined under the Equality Act 2010.

The Government defines 'normal day-to-day activity' as "something you do regularly in a normal day. This includes things like using a computer, working set times or interacting with people."

3 The teen appeared on This Morning last year where Holly and Phil were shocked by his attitude Credit: Rex Features

Jack told The Sun Online that he currently receives "£370-a-week Jobseeker's Allowance and Disability Living Allowance", plus his "£400 monthly rent paid" by the state.

With his saved up benefits, Jack has booked himself in to a clinic in Krakow to have a nose-job on 10th December, and also revealed he is going to have a non-surgical facelift.

He's paying for the procedures using backdated benefits that he claims were given to him after his money stopped due to a mix-up after he appeared on This Morning.

He explained: "I got back paid some money after my benefits got stopped about three months after I was on This Morning.

"People reported me as they thought now I'm famous I'm making loads of money.

"I didn't get any benefits for about four months in total.

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"I'm back on them now and even laughing more as I got back paid £4,500."

And it seems the lump sum has gone some way to making the controversial young man feel a bit better.

He said: "I'm loving life again and this time will be a look-a-like.

3 Jack is determined to look like his idol David Beckham Credit: Instagram

"I'm even going to change my surname to Beckham by deed poll."

Jack, who claims he had a "breakdown three months ago" after his dad died, also plans to take his bid to be a new, younger version of Becks on to the pitch and has started playing with a local team.

He added: "Only my friends and family know I want to be a footballer - I ain't told my social media followers yet.

"They might think I'm stupid, but I'm deadly serious and committed to having a lifestyle like Beckham.

"I have been going to football training for 7 weeks now."

But it's not just the regular exercise that he says will help him carve a physique like the dad-of-four's.

What is depression? Depression is not just a feeling of unhappiness or being a bit fed up for a few days - which is common and totally normal. Those who are suffering from depression can suffer from an immense feeling of sadness that can last for weeks and maybe even months. Everyone is different and the condition can manifest itself in different ways but is often described as a total disconnect from all feelings of happiness. The NHS warns against trivialising depression as not a genuine health problem on it's website: "Some people think depression is trivial and not a genuine health condition. They're wrong – it is a real illness with real symptoms."

He said: "Next year I'm booked in to have a gastric band. Then when I've lost the weight I can try to be a professional footballer."

We introduced you to a glamour model whose botched boob-job meant her implants slid around inside her.

And earlier this year the Human Ken Doll was warned his nose could fall OFF if he kept tampering with it.