Lindsay Lohan has come up with a new money-spinning scheme to supplement her earnings from flogging family photos – product placement!

It’s emerged that the recent snaps of The Mean Girls actress ‘casually’ clutching a nicotine supplement whilst doing her hair salon/Starbucks rounds in L.A. aren’t accidental.

According to the Sydney Morning Herald:

"The troubled Hollywood starlet Lindsay Lohan is the last person you would expect to be on the receiving end of a little Aussie ingenuity but not everyone has friends like the Australian playboy Andy Valmorbida. After playing host at his family's marquee at the Melbourne Cup with Rachel Hunter, Valmorbida has returned to Hollywood to work on a deal for Lohan to indirectly endorse a nicotine substitute to help smokers quit. His Aussie friends inform PS the deal requires Lohan to hold the packet of special gum in view of the paparazzi so it can be captured in the frame and published worldwide."

We’d like to help Lindsay out in these obviously desperate times so…