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Mercede Johnston was just getting warmed up when she called Bristol Palin “evil” and a “sociopath.”

Levi‘s sister hammers his baby mama and her family throughout her new interview in Playboy, saying her “manipulative” almost-sister-in-law would “use sex to get her way on many things.”

“I don’t think Bristol wanted to be with him whatsoever, not at all,” Mercede says of the couple’s brief 2010 reunion. “It was all about her using her body to get Levi to retract his statements, and it worked.”

According to Johnston, Bristol “doesn’t think anything she could do or does is wrong.”

She claims Bristol sent her a Valentine’s Day text message reading, “I hope it was worth it having Lenisha [one of Levi's exes] at your house ’cause you’re never gonna f*cking see your nephew again, b*tch.”

Perhaps Johnston’s biggest allegation is about Bristol’s brother Track Palin, who she claims “would do a lot of drugs.”

“He did OxyContin and mostly cocaine,” says Johnston. “He didn’t choose to go into the Army; he went there because his mom made him, to get him out of the way so when she was at the convention they wouldn’t know he does drugs and would think he was a patriot. It’s a front.”

As for Sarah Palin, Johnston says former governor “doesn’t make her kids go to school… She’d rather parade them around and put on a show at book signings or conventions.”

“The truth about the Palins will come out,” says Johnston. “If everybody who truly knew the Palins would speak up, people would not still think Sarah’s a good person. But they’re afraid to because the Palins have so much money they could do almost anything.”

Johnston’s Playboy interview is accompanied by racy photos.

We’re pretty sure Johnston will be on the Palins’ Christmas card list this year.

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Levi Johnston‘s sister Mercede posed nude for the September issue of Playboy, but her shocking interview makes the racy photos seem demure by comparison.

In excerpts obtained by TMZ, Johnton blasts the entire Palin family, calling her brother’s ex Bristol Palin a “sociopath” and predicting that Sarah Palin would have a “mental breakdown” if she were ever elected president.

The nineteen-year-old also makes contradictory claims about Bristol’s pregnancy, first saying she and Levi “planned” on having son Tripp, and then alleging that Bristol sent Levi a text message that read, “Ever since the moment I found out I was pregnant, I prayed to God you weren’t the father.”

Of Bristol, Johnston says, “She’s the meanest person…I didn’t know someone could be so vindictive and evil …[She's] a sociopath. She doesn’t think anything she could do or does is wrong.”

Johnston also calls Sarah Palin a bad mom who’s “never there” for her kids.

What do you think about Johnston’s claims about the Palin family?

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Bristol Palin will star in a new reality show for the Bio channel

The 10-episode series follows single mom Palin as she moves from Alaska to Los Angeles with her son Tripp.

She will work at a charity and move in with Kyle Massey, a former contestant alongside Palin on “Dancing With the Stars,” and his brother, Christopher. The Masseys are best-known for their work on Disney Channel series.

The show is scheduled to air later this year.

Palin certainly has the reality TV pedigree, having competed on “DWTS” and being TLC star Sarah Palin‘s daughter.

The younger Palin’s personal life, including her on-again, off-again relationship with baby daddy Levi Johnston, has been tabloid fodder for two years.

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Bristol Palin has a new man.

The former “Dancing with the Stars” contestant confirmed the news during a radio interview on Friday.

When asked on Anchorage station KWHL’s “The Bob & Mark Show” whether she’s dating an Alaskan pipeline worker (as rumored), Palin would only go so far as to say she’s in a relationship, although she wouldn’t say with whom.

The hosts suggested Palin say, “I’m seeing a guy and he’s really great and Tripp loves him and we’re having a really good time and we’re really good friends. Let’s go with that.”

Palin laughed and replied, “Yeah, we can go with that. I’m thrilled. I love the town that I live in. I love my house [in Arizona]. Tripp’s happy; he’s healthy.”

Palin has a young son, Tripp, with former beau Levi Johnston.

LISTEN to audio of the interview below.

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Bristol Palin and “Dancing with the Stars” partner Mark Ballas appeared on “Ellen” today, and Palin discussed baby daddy Levi Johnston‘s bid for mayor of Wasilla, Alaska.

“Do you think he’d be a good mayor,” asked the host. “Do you think he knows about politics?

Judging by Palin’s response, Johnston might have some work to do convincing the voters.

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Will “Glee” guy Chord Overstreet get naked for cash?

After a week during which his female co-stars Lea Michele and Dianna Agron were peeped in their undies thanks to GQ, Overstreet has been offered up to $100,000 to pose for Playgirl.

“We love Chord over at Playgirl,” a rep for the magazine tells Gossip Cop. “He’s the perfect combo of all-American jock good looks that Playgirl is known for, and the fact that he’s pretty helps!”

And just how much of Overstreet would be exposed?

“We’d be happy to get Chord down to his skivvies, but face it, our readers want to see at least his butt. And I’ll personally throw in another [$50,000] if he drops trou — that’s how committed I am!”

That’s what we’d call enthusiasm for photography.

Overstreet’s co-star Mark Salling is also reportedly on Playgirl‘s wish list.

No word yet on whether Overstreet or Salling will pull a “Levi Johnston” and strip for the magazine.

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“Bristol Palin Bans Levi Johnston From ‘Dancing’ Set” screams a headline on PopEater, which claims the “Dancing With The Stars” contestant is “demanding that her attention-starved ex-fiance… be barred from the audience.”

Yikes.

What, exactly, is Palin’s supposed problem?

A so-called “family friend” squeals to the site, “The last thing in the world Bristol wants is to look up from her cha-cha-cha and see [Johnston's] big goofy grin looking at her.”

“This is her time to shine and she doesn’t want him trying to steal her spotlight,” the source adds.

It seems PopEater is angling for the spotlight, too — by putting out this completely false story.

The “Dancing” drama is “absolutely not true,” a source close to the production tells Gossip Cop.

Even if Johnston hasn’t been banned from the set, something tells us his dance card is still a bit full at the moment.

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In today’s lineup, a big change for Michael Jackson‘s kids, “Bachelor” Jake Pavelka‘s search for love, and Levi Johnston calls Bristol Palin a fame seeker.

1. Levi Johnston strikes back at Bristol Palin. (People)

2. Michael Jackson‘s kids are leaving home and starting at an actual school. (TMZ)

3. The woman who allegedly slashed Leonardo DiCaprio‘s face must stand trial. (NY Daily News)

4. Jake Pavelka was on Match.com. (Us Weekly)

5. Jay-Z is putting out co-branded merchandise with the New York Yankees. (AP)

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“Sandra to Leering Levi: ‘Get Away From Me!’” reads a PopEater headline about Sandra Bullock and Levi Johnston.

Huh?

According to the site’s “insider,” Bristol Palin‘s ex attempted to cozy up to the Oscar winner at Sunday’s Teen Choice Awards.

“All night long Levi was trying to get close to Sandra,” alleges the source. “He desperately wanted to get his picture taken with Sandra hoping it would show up on the cover of a magazine or at least be able to meet her in person and give America’s sweetheart his phone number.”

Unfortunately for Johnston,  “Sandra was having none of it, telling everyone, ‘Get him away from me,’” claims PopEater’s spy.

Really?

Uh… NO.

“Never happened,” Bullock’s rep assures Gossip Cop.

Gossip Cop also called a number of sources at the awards show, and not one could verify the Johnston-Bullock claim.

Once again, PopEater eats crow.

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Levi Johnston, famous for impregnating Bristol Palin and then stripping down for Playgirl, is throwing his hat into the ring.

Johnston is running for mayor of Wasilla, the same position Sarah Palin held before becoming the governor of Alaska.

And, oh yes, cameras will capture his mayoral bid for a reality show titled, “Loving Levi: The Road to the Mayor’s Office.”

The program’s production company described the show as “a real inside look into who [Johnston] is as a father, a skilled hunter, an avid dirt biker and his journey down the road of small-town politics … right after he gets his high school diploma.”

Will you be “Loving Levi” on TV?

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America’s Alaskan Sweethearts are no more.

Bristol Palin has broken up with Playgirl model Levi Johnston just weeks after the couple announced their engagement.

“It’s over. I broke up with him,” Palin tells People.

She claims the on-again, off-again relationship took a nosedive on July 14, the same day they made their planned nuptials public, when Johnston supposedly confessed that he may have fathered a baby with another woman. “There’s been no remorse,” Palin says.

She and Johnston have a 19-month-old son, Tripp.

Palin was also offended by Johnston’s decision to star in a music video she felt attacked her mother, former governor Sarah Palin, with whom Johnston has fought in the press.

“The final straw was him flying to Hollywood for what he told me was to see some hunting show but come to find out it was that music video mocking my family,” says Palin, adding, “He’s just obsessed with the limelight and I got played.”

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In today’s lineup, T.I. gets hitched, Anna Nicole Smith gets snitched, and Aerosmith won’t be ditched.

1. T.I. married longtime girlfriend Tameka Cottle in Miami Beach. (Just Jared)

2. Steven Tyler‘s “American Idol” gig wouldn’t affect Aerosmith touring. (TMZ)

3. Levi Johnston‘s ex, Lanesia Garcia, denies that he is the father of her baby. (Us Weekly)

4. Prosecutor claims Anna Nicole Smith was a co-conspirator in prescription drug case. (AP)

5. Al Gore cleared of sexually abusing a massage therapist. (People)

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Levi Johnston will star in a music video for “After Love” by Brittani Senser, playing a lover driven away from his girlfriend by her mother.

“He’s looking forward to doing it,” confirms Johnston’s attorney, Rex Butler. “It will give him an opportunity to act a little bit in front of a camera.”

The video’s premise — a young couple finds their romance threatened by an interfering mother — bears more than a passing resemblance to the star’s personal life.

Last week, Johnston and Bristol Palin announced their surprise. engagement. Bristol’s mother, Sarah Palin, has sparred publicly with future son-in-law Johnston, already the father of her grandchild.

Senser, an R&B and pop performer from Minneapolis, will reportedly shoot the video with Johnston in August after they attend the Teen Choice Awards together.

Johnston has said he’d like to pursue acting. He already appeared in Playgirl magazine to enormous publicity.

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Us Weekly may have paid Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston $100,000 to reveal their engagement, according to a report.

Sources for the New York Post estimate the hefty sum, and the paper suggests the cash led Palin to conceal the couple’s reconciliation during an interview with rival People, letting Us Weekly land the bombshell exclusive.

While speaking with People, Palin was vague when describing her status with Johnston. “We’re not totally back together, but I’m not ruling it out… I don’t want to get into what’s in store for our future because, who knows?”

Us Weekly‘s cover announcing the pair’s romantic reconciliation and engagement, previously hidden from Bristol’s mother, Sarah Palin, made huge waves on Wednesday.

A spokesperson for Us Weekly has denied the $100,000 payment claim.

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In a shocking turn of events, Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston, who called off their engagement just two weeks after their son Tripp was born in December 2008, are now going for it.

“We got engaged two weeks ago,” Palin says in the new issue of Us Weekly.

But she didn’t tell her famous mom.

“It is intimidating and scary just to think about what her reaction is going to be. Hopefully she will jump on board,” she said.

Three months ago, while trying to work out the custody of their son, Palin and Johnston reconciled.

“I really thought we were over,”Johnston told Us, recalling, “We both just started talking — and then we took Tripp for a walk.”

“When he left that night,” interjects Palin, “we didn’t hug or kiss, but I was thinking how different it was. He texted me: ‘I miss you. I love you. I want to be with you again’ … I was in shock.”

Equally shocking is them getting back together after Johnston and vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin publicly sparred for months.

Sarah Palin told reporters that Johnston, who posed for Playgirl, would “say and do anything for even more attention.”

She later told Oprah Winfrey that she thought his “aspiring porn” career was “heartbreaking.”

But this morning Sarah Palin issued a statement: “Bristol at 19 is now a young adult. We obviously want what’s best for our children… Bristol believes in redemption and forgiveness to a degree most of us struggle to put in practice in our daily lives.”

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According to the magazine, “ABC offered him $500,000 to be on Dancing With the Stars next season — but he turned down the opportunity.”

Really?

Gosselin told Us Weekly, “After seeing what the show did to Kate [Gosselin] and the kids, I wouldn’t put them through that again.”

Gossip Cop, however, was told by a source involved with the dance competition show that the reportedly cash-strapped father of eight wasn’t even offered a $500,000 gig to turn down.

“If they’re saying they’re being offered, they’re not being offered,” said the production source, who noted Levi Johnston and others have pulled the same ploy.

A rep for ABC would only say, “We never comment on casting rumors.”

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“The Twilight Saga: New Moon” opens tonight (have you heard?), and in light of Robert Pattinson being “confronted” (in good fun) on “The Today Show” this morning with a series of crazy rumors, Gossip Cop decided to compile a little trip down memory lane with our Top 20 Wrong “Twilight” Rumors from the last few speculation-saturated months.

There were, of course, the endless (endless, endless) Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart romance rumors, the problems with obnoxious paparazzi, issues with fake photos, crazy casting rumors involving “Harry Potter,” then ridiculous romance rumors involving “Harry Potter,” fake “Twilight”-bashing Tweets from Lauren Bacall (no, really), and more.

But here are the 20 that together helped to define the “Twilight” Tabloid Experience between the summer and tonight’s theatrical release. They’re fun, they’re wild, they’re crazy… and they’re wrong.

20. Robert Pattinson + Megan Fox = ???

Teen Choice Awards co-presenters make mistake of co-presenting in same time zone. All hell breaks loose.

19. Kristen Stewart “Tweets” Up a Storm

Unfortunately, it seems only one magazine has access.

18. Taylor Swift “Teaches” Taylor Lautner in Hotel Room

They supposedly jam until the wee hours while guests cover ears and mag’s fact checkers cover eyes.

17. “Looking Like Hell,” Cast of “Eclipse” Placed on “Lockdown”

Star magazine insists out-of-control stars get curfew. We think the editors need more sleep.

16. “Breaking Dawn” Production Rumors Just… Won’t… Stop

Every few days “news” of a fourth movie taking shape trickles from the Northwest. And one day it’ll be true. But not yet.

15. Kristen Stewart Scream 2009 Rumors… She Didn’t Go

Everyone kept insisting she’d attend the awards. We trusted our “no” sources. Disappointing news can be accurate news.

14. Robert Pattinson is a Teleporter

Outlet doesn’t get memo to wait until actor is in New York to generate fake New York rumors.

13. “Snobby,” “Miserable” Kristen Stewart is “Eclipse” “Outcast”

Actually, the entire smear piece could be placed inside quotation marks and then dumped in the water outside Vancouver.

12. New York Daily News Fakes Jennie Garth Quotes

Transcript shows paper exaggerated Peter Facinelli’s wife’s comments “outing” Robsten, but not as ridiculously as…

11. Site Fakes and Creates Chris Weitz Quotes

Blog manufactures director’s statement “outing” Robsten, fails Comedy 101.

10. Robsten’s Fantasy Island

Not satisfied with mainland rumors, tabs conjure an exaggerated couple’s getaway, albeit one more plausible than…

9. Taylor Lautner “Proposes” to Taylor Swift

We’d like to propose that certain outlets just take a “Twilight” timeout.

8. Phony Interview with Robert Pattinson Goes Everywhere

Gossip Cop actually called the perpetrators on this one – and got results.

7. Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart “Keeping a Safe Distance”

Perez Hilton manages to pick up wrong story and make it 10,000 times wronger.

6. OK! Magazine Loves Robsten Rollercoaster a Little Too Much

We just got motion sickness reliving the tab’s topsy-turvy approach to reality.

5. Robert Pattinson’s Alleged Steroids Use

Mangled, out-of-context Kristen Stewart quotes generate ‘juiced’ rumors.

4. Robert Pattinson on Verge of Rehab

“His shirt was once buttoned all weird.” We’re not making this up.

3. Robert Pattinson “Injured” on “New Moon” Set

A blog alarms everyone by showing the actor bloodied… and fails to mention that it was makeup for a scene.

2. Robert Pattinson “In Mix” to Play Levi Johnston

No comment.

1. Robert Pattinson Impregnates Kristen Stewart

Due any day now…

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Glaring omissions? Personal favorites? Let us know in the comments section!

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This is the weirdest, wildest, silliest Robert Pattinson rumor we’ve seen, and it comes just hours before his small, under-the-radar film “New Moon” has its world premiere in Los Angeles. But even though it’s completely ridiculous, it really made Gossip Cop laugh, and we thought you’d get a chuckle from it, too.

Pop quiz: What happens when you take the two biggest stories of the week and crash them into each other?

Robert Pattinson playing Levi Johnston!

[stunned silence]

[uncontrollable laughter]

No, really. As Sarah Palin‘s promotional tour for her memoir “Going Rogue” heats up (like with today’s hyped “Oprah” appearance), so too do rumors that Hollywood wants to turn the former Alaska governor’s life into a feature film.

That would presumably mean casting someone to play Johnston, erstwhile Bristol Palin baby daddy and current Playgirl attraction.

Who?

“Robert Pattinson’s name has been thrown into the mix,” writes Michael Essany for Examiner.

WHAT??!?!???

Um, who exactly is saying this?

“Some say [the film] could star Robert Pattinson as Levi Johnston,” continues Essany.

Ah. “Some.” Gotcha.

Then the writer actually says of this, um, surprising potential casting move, “Possible? Yes.”

No. Not possible. It’s made up. It’s fiction. It’s not happening. It’s never, ever, ever happening.

“With this rumor likely resulting from the hype surrounding this weekend’s release of ‘New Moon,’ there’s obviously a great effort underway to get Robert Pattinson’s name in any headline possible,” concludes the Examiner piece.

Gossip Cop doesn’t even know what to say beyond…

“Wow.”

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As part of Sarah Palin’s promotion for her new book, “Going Rogue,” the former vice presidential candidate sat down with Barbara Walters for an interview that will begin airing on “Good Morning America,” starting Tuesday, and can bee seen in its entirety on “20/20” next Friday.

In the interview with Walters, Palin said she didn’t know that her daughter Bristol was having sex until she found out the teen was pregnant. Palin told Walters, “Truthfully, we were devastated.”

Last December Bristol gave birth to Palin’s first grandson, Tripp, when she was still in high school. The father, of course, is Levi Johnston, who is slated to bear all in the pages of Playgirl.

Be prepared for more little nuggets from Palin’s interview to become public over the next few days. 

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