02:23 PM EDT 11/19/2009
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Levi Johnston Says No to Palin Thanksgiving
Originally posted 11/18/2009 02:10PM
There'll be an extra drumstick at the Palin house next week: Sarah's could-have-been-son-in-law Levi Johnston likely won't be sitting down with the family for the Thanksgiving feast.
The former VP candidate and Alaska governor, 45, had extended Johnston, 19, the holiday invite to the family compound on Lake Lucille in Wasilla when she appeared on TV with Oprah Winfrey to promote her new memoir, Going Rogue: An American Life. Palin told the talk-show queen, "It's lovely to think that he would ever even consider such a thing.”
The teen reportedly told Playgirl, for whom he has posed, that this was "a nice gesture, but she didn't mean it." The nude model also said having dinner with the Palins would be "awkward."
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Sarah Palin Answers PEOPLE Readers' Questions
Originally posted 11/17/2009 01:05PM
You know the episodes of 30 Rock in which Liz Lemon, played by wicked Sarah-Palin impersonator Tina Fey, decides whether women's boyfriend troubles are deal-breakers? "Yes! I saw that the other day. It was hilarious," says none other than Palin herself.
The former Alaska governor and VP candidate sat down with PEOPLE on Nov. 14 to answer some reader questions – such as that from Samantha Harris, of Boca Raton, Fla., who wrote that the man she's dating "doesn't believe in politics because it doesn't affect him. Do you think this is a deal-breaker?"
Answered Palin, "The deal-breaker is that he may not be that sharp a cookie. Politics affects every aspect of our lives."
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Sarah Palin's First Campaign Fear: Exposure of D Grade in College
Originally posted 11/16/2009 01:30PM
When Sarah Palin was first selected to be John McCain's vice presidential candidate, she thought the biggest secret that would be discovered was the fact that she once got a D in a college course.
"I thought that was going to be the extent of the controversy," she said Monday on The Oprah Winfrey Show, in the first of a series of interviews centered around the publication of the former Alaska governor's autobiography, Going Rogue.
But when an even more pressing issue was revealed – the pregnancy of her teenage daughter Bristol – the McCain campaign didn't allow Palin to address the situation as she would have liked. "This is not to be glamorized," she said. "This is not to be emulated … I didn't want that message getting out there that we were giddy happy to become grandparents."
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Sarah Palin Was 'Devastated' by Daughter's Pregnancy
Originally posted 11/14/2009 07:30PM
When Sarah Palin found out that her daughter Bristol was expecting a baby, she was doubly surprised – the governor of Alaska wasn't even aware that the teen was having sex.
"That's why I was so shocked," Palin tells Barbara Walters in a new interview. "Truthfully, we were devastated."
In her sit-down with Walters, set to air Tuesday on Good Morning America, Palin talks about her public life and political aspirations during the 2008 presidential election. The former vice presidential nominee's highly anticipated book, Going Rogue: An American Life will be released the same day.
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Sarah Palin Says Levi Johnston Is Welcome at Thanksgiving
Originally posted 11/12/2009 02:00PM
"It's lovely to think that he would ever even consider such a thing," the former Alaska governor, 45, tells Oprah Winfrey in an interview to air Nov. 16, the day before the publication of Palin's memoir, Going Rogue.
"Because," she said, "he is a part of the family and you want to bring him in the fold and kind of under your wing. And he needs that, too, Oprah. I think he needs to know that he is loved and he has the most beautiful child and this can all work out for good."
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Levi Johnston: My All-Out Fight for Tripp
Originally posted 11/10/2009 06:55PM
In his custody fight for son Tripp, Levi Johnston says he's up against a powerful foe: Sarah Palin.
Johnston, 19, claims the former vice presidential candidate has been part of an effort to keep Tripp away from Johnston by exerting influence on 19-year-old daughter Bristol, who is Tripp's mother.
"She has a big impact on what Bristol does and thinks," Johnston tells Entertainment Tonight. "Bristol looks up to Sarah. I don't know why they just don't want me in his life."
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Levi Johnston to Sue for Joint Custody of Son Tripp
Originally posted 11/09/2009 01:10PM
The man who was almost Sarah Palin's son-in-law will pursue legal action to gain joint custody of his son with Bristol Palin, according to reports.
Levi Johnston, 19, is the father of 10-month-old Tripp with his ex-girlfriend Bristol, the daughter of the former Alaska governor. The two were engaged to be married, but broke off their relationship in March.
Johnston is seeking joint custody at the end of the month because the Palin family is allegedly making it difficult for him to see his son, he told The Insider.
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Sarah Palin Rips Levi Johnston for Selling His Body
Originally posted 10/28/2009 05:00PM
Talk about a dressing down.
Levi Johnston went on CBS's The Early Show on Wednesday to needle his favorite target, his baby mama's mama Sarah Palin, by claiming she referred to her infant son Trig, who has Down syndrome, as "retarded."
Without providing any details, Johnston, 19, also darkly suggested that Palin, the former Republican candidate for vice-president, has done a whole lot worse, saying he knows things that could get her "in trouble and could hurt her."
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Sarah Palin Finally to Appear on Oprah
Originally posted 10/20/2009 02:35PM
Oh, what a difference a multimillion-dollar book deal makes.
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Sarah Palin Book to Hit Stores Nov. 17
Originally posted 09/29/2009 08:30AM
Call her what you like, but she's definitely a fast writer.
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has already finished her memoir, titled Going Rogue: An American Life, and has a newly moved-up launch date for its publication – Nov. 17 for a whopping 1.5 million copies, the Christian Science Monitor reports.
The 400-page memoir from HarperCollins, which Palin wrote with noted ghostwriter Lynn Vincent, was completed in a swift four months, at last part of which Palin spent in an intense retreat in San Diego, Calif.
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