Palin Lashes 'Mean' Exhibitionist Levi

Meghan Daum on why 'Sex on Skates' is an important media figure

(NEWSER) - Levi Johnston may be an “opportunistic buffoon” and a “grammatically challenged, Playgirl-posing, pistachio-shilling media pawn,” but he’s also a guilty pleasure. He’s hot, he’s cute, and his "unverifiable claims" about Sarah Palin are fascinating, writes Meghan Daum of the Los Angeles Times . Listening to him is like “popping an enormous pimple. You know no good can come of it…but it’s just too satisfying to turn away.” More»

Levi concerned about how it will look—especially in an ice rink

(NEWSER) - Levi Johnston has stopped bragging about his upcoming Playgirl shoot and started worrying about it. He’s concerned about how his privates will appear in the pictures, sources tell the New York Post , and the fact that he’ll be shooting in an ice rink isn’t helping. Manager Tank Johnson denies it—but also, in an about-face from previous comments, refuses to confirm Johnston will go full-frontal. More»

He'll take it all off in a variety of sports-related settings

(NEWSER) - As if it's not fantastic enough that Levi Johnston is taking it all off for his upcoming Playgirl shoot, his ever-poetic manager confirmed it with the following statement: "Everything's gonna hang out. We're talking full johnson." The shoot just happens to fall on the same day Sarah Palin goes on Oprah—Nov. 16—and a website rep says the "Palin-impaler" (nickname courtesy of TMZ ) will be shot in athletic scenes: "Gyms, rinks—that sort of thing." More»

(NEWSER) - Levi Johnston apparently wasn’t joking when he said he’d be open to doing a nude photo shoot, Gawker reports. Well, not nude exactly, but the Alaska babydaddy is going to strip to his undies for Playgirl, now a website-only operation. "They're in final negotiations to get the thing together right now," writes Brian Moylan. More»

Wasillan releasing tell-all memoir

(NEWSER) - There's no love lost between the Johnston and Palin clans, and Levi's new tell-all memoir is set to keep the feud going. In Deer In the Headlights, to be released later this month, Johnston claims that Bristol became pregnant with his child to get even with her mother for Sarah's pregnancy with Trig, reports the New York Daily News . He says Bristol, then 17, believed that she, not her politician mother, should be having babies. More»