Levi Johnston says he’ll do Playgirl if the money is right

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Levi Johnston, the 19 year-old baby daddy of Sarah Palin’s daughter, Bristol, is still working hard to capitalize on his relationship with the former first family of Alaska. Johnston has a new interview in Vanity Fair in which he dishes the dirt on the Palin family, essentially saying they’re not effectively parenting their kids because they don’t cook, and reveals that Sarah initially schemed to hide her daughter’s pregnancy from the public. In the advance segment of Levi’s interview available online, he also claims that Palin quit her job as Alaskan governor because she wanted to make some easy money from a book deal. It looks like that worked out well for her, considering that she’s rumored to have received an over $10 million advance.

On how Sarah and husband Todd don’t cook, which makes them bad parents
The Palin house was much different from what many people expect of a normal family, even before she was nominated for vice president. There wasn’t much parenting in that house. Sarah doesn’t cook, Todd doesn’t cook—the kids would do it all themselves: cook, clean, do the laundry, and get ready for school. Most of the time Bristol would help her youngest sister with her homework, and I’d barbecue chicken or steak on the grill.

On Sarah’s plan to hide Bristol’s pregnancy
Sarah told me she had a great idea: we would keep it a secret—nobody would know that Bristol was pregnant. She told me that once Bristol had the baby she and Todd would adopt him. That way, she said, Bristol and I didn’t have to worry about anything. Sarah kept mentioning this plan. She was nagging—she wouldn’t give up. She would say, “So, are you gonna let me adopt him?” We both kept telling her we were definitely not going to let her adopt the baby. I think Sarah wanted to make Bristol look good, and she didn’t want people to know that her 17-year-old daughter was going to have a kid.

On Sarah planning to quit as governor of Alaska once her party lost the Presidential election
Sarah was sad for a while. She walked around the house pouting. I had assumed she was going to go back to her job as governor, but a week or two after she got back she started talking about how nice it would be to quit and write a book or do a show and make “triple the money.” It was, to her, “not as hard.” She would blatantly say, “I want to just take this money and quit being governor.” She started to say it frequently, but she didn’t know how to do it. When she came home from work, it seemed like she was more and more stressed out.

[From Vanity Fair]

I feel like Levi is really grasping at straws by claiming that working parents need to do laundry and cook for their grown teenagers. Sarah and Todd’s children are 20, 18, 13, 7, and one. The older kids can easily cook and do laundry and the thirteen year-old can at least do laundry. Levi isn’t saying much else that we haven’t already heard from him, and he seems to be trying to extend his time in the spotlight by any means possible. He seems like a decent kid, but judging from his appearance on Larry King with his buddy Kathy Griffin filling in as host, but he really doesn’t have the chops for any kind of media career. On CNN, he just kind of sat there laughing and taking Kathy’s lead.

Vanity Fair has a behind-the-scenes video with Levi, shown below, in which he laughs and plays along with his more outspoken manager, Tank Jones. From the way Jones talks for Levi, you get the impression that he needs someone with a more outgoing personality to take over for him.

At around 3:29 into the video (thanks to HuffPo for pointing this out), Jones asks Levi if he’s ever thought about doing Playgirl, saying that he was talking to some people at the magazine. Since this is Levi’s manager, you can assume that this exchange was approved by Levi. Levi says “I’d do it… if it would get me out of here.” Tank then counsels Levi that “you’ve gotta have some johnson” to earn a spread in that magazine. Levi is a little coy about whether he rates in that area, saying “you’re just gonna have to see.” That seems like a logical next step for Levi, since interest in him, and the Palins, is rapidly waning. I wouldn’t mind seeing some more of that, but I wouldn’t run out and get Playgirl specifically for Levi, either.

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  1. audrey says:

    sorry.. I can’t stand Palin, but this guy gets more douche-y with every interview.

  2. Firestarter says:

    Levi seems decent? What decent person goes on Bravo tv’s little post Housewives of Atlanta talk show with Andy Cohen and says stuff about the mother of his childs family?

    Who even thinks this douche bag is goodlooking?

    I am no Palin fan, but he needs to STFU and not act like he is some sort of celebrity. He is not hot, nor smart and certainly not a nice person.

  3. Raven says:

    Agreed, Firestarter.

    On the positive side, at least he has a promising future in the porn industry.

    He’ll be able to pay child support.

  4. TaylorB says:

    I thought Playgirl folded last year. Either way what would the headline be? ‘somewhat attractive, father of the grandchild of a former Gov’? Doesn’t exactly make me think ‘Oooooo, I am just dying to see him naked’.

  5. maddie says:

    I agree with FireStarter.

    There is nothing decent about this guy who only claim to fame is knocking up his girlfriend who’s mom was running for President of U.S.

    He keeps going on and on and on about the Palins, seems like he making it up as he goes, to extend his 15 minutes of fame.

    It’s coming up to a year and he is still bitching about his ex-girls friends family.

    As for Playgirl, if they do offer him a photo shoot, that whole rumor about the PlayBoy empire being in trouble must be true.

    First Kim K, Hedi M, now this asshat.

  6. Susette says:

    Firestarter summed it up for me, too. I can’t stand Palin, but this guy’s a tool. I hope the money he’s getting from these interviews goes to child support. He has no brains, no education, no training, no skills, and his career plan seems to consist only of living off the fact that he knocked up Palin’s daughter. I’m sure his son is going to be really proud some day.

  7. TaylorB says:

    Maddie,

    I am fairly sure that Playgirl isn’t part of Playboy Inc. Totally different company. Granted it seems they are both making very silly layout choices as you pointed out.

  8. Nicole says:

    What I don’t get is: Why does a person who is famous for nothing else than impregnating the daughter of a politician even have a manager? How is he paying him? Is he earning any money?

  9. Neelyo says:

    I think it’s hilarious. Of course he’s a douche, but it’s the perfect punishment for Sarah. And to further drive her nuts, I hope the kid ends up looking just like him.

    And I think his attractiveness window is closing quickly. He better capitalize on those looks fast.

  10. ash says:

    Wow, he just sounds like a down right liar and tattle tale to me. Congrats on your doucheyness sir.

  11. Michelle says:

    I couldn’t and still can’t stand Sarah Palin, but I feel for her and her family for having to put up with such a total a-hole like Levi. He’s managed to outdouche them all.

  12. barneslr says:

    He’s turned into a real famewhore, hasn’t he?

  13. Green Is Good says:

    This douche-nozzle didn’t even finish high school. And bad mouthing his Ex’s family just screams low class.

  14. Vermithrax says:

    How long till he mysteriously disappears?

    :-O

  15. ugh says:

    he seems to do more interviews than spend time with his child. no wonder Bristol wouldnt wanna give it to him, he’d prolly take a pic with him and the baby and sell it.

  16. Kevin says:

    Palin looks similar to Angelina in that header photo. YOU BETCHA!!!

  17. Hieronymus Grex says:

    Thanks for the pic of Robo-mom next to his; I needed an emetic.

  18. bittercup says:

    He can count on Celebitchy to give it a great review..

  19. Susette says:

    Ugh, you said, “he’d prolly take a pic with him and the baby and sell it.”

    He already has. He did a photo layout with the baby.

  20. Zoe says:

    ::He keeps going on and on and on about the Palins, seems like he making it up as he goes, to extend his 15 minutes of fame.::

    The Palins brought this on themselves. If Sarah had just let him see his kid when he wanted (seeing as she has no legal right to prevent him from doing so but kept it up), all this trouble wouldn’t have been kicked up. Sometimes people’s own stupid actions have quite the negative reaction and it’s unfortunate there is a kid trapped in all of this. Sarah Palin has been slinging mud at him too, so I’m not feeling either side.

    That said, you don’t have to like the guy to want to see him in Playgirl. Bring it on!

  21. Sara says:

    Zoe – How did Sarah Palin stop him from seeing his son? And how would you even know that? If anything I would assume Bristol stopped this unattractive douche from seeing his kid, since you know it is her kid and her mom is probably just backing up her decision. I’m sorry that Bristol is stuck having to interact with this guy for the rest of her life because they have a kid together

  22. Katrina says:

    kinda hard to do a photo opt for a magazine when you dont have access to your kid… lol.

  23. j. ferber says:

    He’d need to lose weight and get fit before modeling nude (I do think Playgirl folded last year, though). Other than that, it’s the first sensible career decision he’s made since appearing with Kathy Griffin.