http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2009/oct/31/ed-pilkington-interview-levi-johnstonWhen Sarah Palin's daughter Bristol became pregnant during last year's White House race, her then boyfriend Levi Johnston shot to fame. Now he is trading insults with her mother and about to strip off for a magazine
Ed Pilkingston in Anchorage
The Guardian, Saturday 31 October 2009
For a man who is to be crowned by the Gawker websites at an awards ceremony in New York next month as America's biggest emerging sex symbol, Levi Johnston cuts a very modest figure when you meet him in person. He is wearing a pair of black canvas work trousers that are splattered with mud, a scraggy T-shirt advertising Browning rifles and a khaki cap from under which a splodge of rather greasy dark hair curls up. He badly needs a shave.
To be fair, he has just got back from what he calls a "suicide trip", meaning a spontaneous hunting expedition, to the Alaskan outback. He and three buddies tracked and killed two black bears, skinning the hide off the 7ft-long animals to turn them into trophies (they didn't keep the meat because he says its "not very good").