Levi Johnston, the 19 year-old baby daddy of Sarah Palin’s daughter, Bristol, is still working hard to capitalize on his relationship with the former first family of Alaska. Johnston has a new interview in Vanity Fair in which he dishes the dirt on the Palin family, essentially saying they’re not effectively parenting their kids because they don’t cook, and reveals that Sarah initially schemed to hide her daughter’s pregnancy from the public. In the advance segment of Levi’s interview available online, he also claims that Palin quit her job as Alaskan governor because she wanted to make some easy money from a book deal. It looks like that worked out well for her, considering that she’s rumored to have received an over $10 million advance.

On how Sarah and husband Todd don’t cook, which makes them bad parents
The Palin house was much different from what many people expect of a normal family, even before she was nominated for vice president. There wasn’t much parenting in that house. Sarah doesn’t cook, Todd doesn’t cook—the kids would do it all themselves: cook, clean, do the laundry, and get ready for school. Most of the time Bristol would help her youngest sister with her homework, and I’d barbecue chicken or steak on the grill.

On Sarah’s plan to hide Bristol’s pregnancy
Sarah told me she had a great idea: we would keep it a secret—nobody would know that Bristol was pregnant. She told me that once Bristol had the baby she and Todd would adopt him. That way, she said, Bristol and I didn’t have to worry about anything. Sarah kept mentioning this plan. She was nagging—she wouldn’t give up. She would say, “So, are you gonna let me adopt him?” We both kept telling her we were definitely not going to let her adopt the baby. I think Sarah wanted to make Bristol look good, and she didn’t want people to know that her 17-year-old daughter was going to have a kid.

On Sarah planning to quit as governor of Alaska once her party lost the Presidential election
Sarah was sad for a while. She walked around the house pouting. I had assumed she was going to go back to her job as governor, but a week or two after she got back she started talking about how nice it would be to quit and write a book or do a show and make “triple the money.” It was, to her, “not as hard.” She would blatantly say, “I want to just take this money and quit being governor.” She started to say it frequently, but she didn’t know how to do it. When she came home from work, it seemed like she was more and more stressed out.

[From Vanity Fair]

I feel like Levi is really grasping at straws by claiming that working parents need to do laundry and cook for their grown teenagers. Sarah and Todd’s children are 20, 18, 13, 7, and one. The older kids can easily cook and do laundry and the thirteen year-old can at least do laundry. Levi isn’t saying much else that we haven’t already heard from him, and he seems to be trying to extend his time in the spotlight by any means possible. He seems like a decent kid, but judging from his appearance on Larry King with his buddy Kathy Griffin filling in as host, but he really doesn’t have the chops for any kind of media career. On CNN, he just kind of sat there laughing and taking Kathy’s lead.

Vanity Fair has a behind-the-scenes video with Levi, shown below, in which he laughs and plays along with his more outspoken manager, Tank Jones. From the way Jones talks for Levi, you get the impression that he needs someone with a more outgoing personality to take over for him.

At around 3:29 into the video (thanks to HuffPo for pointing this out), Jones asks Levi if he’s ever thought about doing Playgirl, saying that he was talking to some people at the magazine. Since this is Levi’s manager, you can assume that this exchange was approved by Levi. Levi says “I’d do it… if it would get me out of here.” Tank then counsels Levi that “you’ve gotta have some johnson” to earn a spread in that magazine. Levi is a little coy about whether he rates in that area, saying “you’re just gonna have to see.” That seems like a logical next step for Levi, since interest in him, and the Palins, is rapidly waning. I wouldn’t mind seeing some more of that, but I wouldn’t run out and get Playgirl specifically for Levi, either.