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Levi Johnston: Probably Not an Awesome Father

It turns out that Levi Johnston is just about as irresponsible of a parent as you’d expect. Between his Playgirl shoot and dates with Kathy Griffin, Levi has only managed to cough up $5,400 over the course of his 13 month old son’s life. Now his ex-fiance Bristol Palin (former McCain running mate Sarah Palin’s daughter, for all you clueless folk out there) has taken the matter in to her own hands and filed to receive $1,750 a month in child support.

Of course that sounds like an awful lot of money for a 19-year old to pay another 19-year old who lives at her parent’s home with her baby, but Levi has done a nice job cashing in on the Palin family name this past year. In fact, Bristol estimates that he’s made “in excess of $105,000 in 2009 through various media interviews and modeling related activities” in 2009. That’s not bad money for having to stand around and be the pretty guy who impregnated the Governor’s daughter.

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  • there’s always two sides to the story. you betcha. perhaps we should let the courts sort it out. do any of you know what their current agreement is? Probably not.

  • I can’t imagine how, having alienated his child’s family, he really could be a great father. I mean, can he come over for Thanksgiving dinner? I think not. I’d throw the little punk out if that he were my daughter’s former fiance and talked like that about me. He just doesn’t seem like he has good sense, nor is he thinking about his child.

    • How much has Bristol made pimping “abstinence” for Candies and her son for People and In Touch?

      • Bristol is the perfect person to preach abstinence. She KNOWS the difficulties of being a teen parent. People make mistakes. And just because Bristol got pregnant doesn’t mean Sarah condoned it. Kids do a lot of things their parents say not to do.

      • bristol is a hypocrite. you can’t change sides or play the pity card when u screw up(literally). she went on show after show advocating abstinence and condemning sex and then she goes and gets herself pregnant. I don’t believe in abstinence and I’m not judging her for having a kid but putting her on a pedestal because ‘ she made a mistake’, oh please!

      • and i like this johnston kid. yeah, he’s milking it for all its worth but why not? at least he’s honest about it and doesnt pretend to be some wholesome guy like the whole palin family. you would think they were amish or something by the way they present themselves to the public.

      • “I don’t believe in abstinence.” Too bad your mother didn’t try it. We’d all be better off. My guess is what was supposed to be your brain was left as the wet spot on sheet. (I was going to say dumpster floor, but I’m feeling charitable .)

      • Well Ceci, I’m sitting here looking at my wife of 30 years who loves me and our children. I throw this shit out as a lark.

        If I’ve hurt you I’m sorry.

        I do this for shits and giggles, and most folks take it for what it’s worth. If it means that much to you I would counsel you to pursue a different pass time.

      • EBD is ” just a sad little men living in your mom’s basement.” Yes, there are more than one. What a maroon.

      • Make no mistake, she’s getting paid very well to preach abstinence, even though she admitted in an interview that abstinence is unrealistic.

        What can we learn from Bristol? Getting pregnant has landed her a contract with Candies and a few magazine covers, not to mention money, money, money. I believe Bristol would rather be out having fun with her friends, but she isn’t exactly the poster child for the difficulties of being a teen parent.

        You know who would be a better person to speak about the difficulties of being a teen parent? A girl who works full time while going to school and hoping her baby is ok in daycare. Or maybe a girl who is living on the street because her parents kicked her out of the house when she got pregnant.

      • OMG evildouche get a fucking life. i always see your ‘witty and sarcastic’ comments plastered all over the site. youre not funny, youre probably just a sad little men living in your mom’s basement. pathetic loser…

        and you’ll definitely respond in under an hour cause you’re OBSESSED

  • I love how folks think they know Levi and what type of father he is. I’ll bet both of those ‘kids’ love their kid. I’ll bet neither of them ever wanted to be in the public spotlight. I’ll bet Ms. Sarah Palin never imagined this pregnancy would become the obsession of so many. I’m gonna guess that Levi posed for Playgirl to make money because who wants to hire a high school graduate that is being followed by photographers. So what if Bristol made some money to help raise her kid by using the unwanted attention to her advantage. I miss the old days when Entertainment Tonight covered ‘entertainers’ and not these types of ‘stories’. The line between entertainment and politics sure has blurred. I’m going to go watch my Donny and Marie dvd.

  • Levi does the minor crime he’s got to pay for her time in misery and woe raising the kid and stuck with rehabilitation, education, and maturing into a responsible adult huh? Is she bad to have the baby and make a effort to grow up and face responsibility with a cheerful attitude? Would you be ever so much happier if the baby had been murdered and she should go on in cold blooded freedom getting into more trouble with depression and an inconsolable conscience of that memory? Nawh, you’d rag her on that choice too, even if she didn’t give another thought on aborting it. What is best for all? Levi’s learning to be a man in public spotlight, not so gracefully as her family is pressing him to do what is legal, just and right, perhaps being part of the baby’s life which hopefully he will one day be ever so grateful for that comfort in having a grace period to come to a decision. The stories abound in adoptive parents finding and meeting their children later in life to have closure., and feeling damned if it was aborted. This financial obligation will be the making or breaking of him eventually. Leave the persons involved alone to settle this right and wrong please, as it is not proper gossip fodder. You are really demeaning many torn apart families, struggling and torn by their ‘minor’ mistakes and bravery in doing what is right and fair. The movie Precious should come to mind..

    • The only evidence that Levi is not living up to his responsibility is coming from the Palin family. You know, the family that has sued for full custody, even though there is a father who wants and who is able to have shared custody.

      Do you think Bristol, living in a million dollar house, with a strong family support system, and opportunities to make money from interviews and pictures of her son, is experiencing misery and woe?

      And, by the way, how many women do you know who have had abortions? I guarantee it’s more than you think. Do you really believe that they are all forever racked with guilt? “Inconsolable conscience?” Get a grip.

      And take a breath. I’m exhausted even reading your comment.

  • is it really surprising, considering he looks like he just went shopping with that gosselin douche?

    plus, the palins just need to move on. money is only paper..and probably not something they’re running terribly low on, either.