Best WTF moments of 2009: Levi Johnston’s Playgirl debut
As far as WTF celebrity skin-showings go, it doesn’t get much weirder than this: Sarah Palin’s almost-son-in-law and perennial d-bag Levi Johnston jumped ship from his waning public image as baby daddy to pursue a career in modeling. And by a career in modeling, I obviously mean posing sans skivvies for Playgirl.
2009 was already a WTF political scene without the help of little Levi, but apparently President Obama’s weigh-in on Kanyegate (“Yeah, he’s an asshole,”) and delirious dawn of Tea Party people just weren’t giving CNN enough to gab about.
The ensuing months were a game of will-he-or-won’t-he; speculations about the degree of nudity, the reason for the stunt and the opinions of Palin seemed to fly back and forth between cable news networks like a puck at a hockey game. The sly and creepily media-savvy Johnston soaked up the opportunity to talk about anything other than ditching Bristol once her mom didn’t win the White House.
Once photos began leaking everywhere on the Internet, it was announced that Levi would not be baring his full Johnston. Still, the steamy shower shoot ain’t too shabby, and now that ladies are saying, “Bristol who?”, Johnston has become a full-fledged sex symbol. He was even named one of the “Sexiest Living Men” by Salon.com.
Well played, Mr. Johnston.
