Sarah Palin Slams Levi Johnston as 'Ricky Hollywood' on 'Oprah'

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Sarah Palin may have half-heartedly invited Levi Johnston to join her family for Thanksgiving, but that hasn't stopped her from trash-talking him in her highly-publicized interview with Oprah Winfrey. Predictably, the subject of Levi's upcoming Playgirl spread was raised, and Palin didn't hold back her comments.

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She said (via Gothamist.com): "I call that porn, yes. So it’s a bit heartbreaking to see the road that he's on right now. By the way, I don't know if we call him Levi -- I hear he goes by the name ‘Ricky Hollywood’ now -- so, if that’s the case, we don’t want to mess up this gig he's got going. Kind of this aspiring, aspiring porn -- the things that he's doing. It's kind of heartbreaking."

Palin may call it porn, but not everyone would agree: As it turns out, the shoot won't be full-frontal, as previously reported. Palin's "Ricky Hollywood" reference comes from a recent interview Levi gave to the Daily Beast, in which he and his manager Tank Jones came up with the alter ego. You see, Levi isn't really the guy you see going on talk shows and wearing flashy clothing -- that's just his entertainment persona.

In the article, Tank said, "What we did was, we came up with an alter ego, Ricky Hollywood. Ricky Hollywood would iron his shirt.”

Levi replied, "Yeah, right! OK, well, I’d iron it. He doesn’t know how to iron." Huh?

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