Father of Sarah Palin's grandson plans to pose nude for magazine

Father of Sarah Palin's grandson plans to pose nude for magazine

Father of Sarah Palin’s grandson Levi Johnston is going for the ultimate exposure. Nineteen year old Levi will pose nude for Playgirl. On Wednesday his attorney has confirmed this news.

To groom himself for close-up, Johnston is receiving training three hours every day, six nights a week at an Anchorage gym with a local body builder.

However no formal agreement has been reached with the online magazine. According to Rex Butler, Johnston's attorney, the photo shoot is a "foregone conclusion”.

Johnston fathered a son with Bristol, eighteen year old daughter of Sarah Palin, the former Republican vice presidential candidate who resigned as Alaska's governor in the month of July.

The publication of the photographs could be a source of embarrassment for Sarah Palin, often mentioned as a possible 2012 presidential candidate. Her memoir, "Going Rogue," will be published next month and pre-sales already have made it a national best seller.

Just after Sen. John McCain chose Palin as his running mate in August 2008, Johnston was thrust into the national spotlight when Palin abruptly announced her unwed daughter was pregnant and the couple would marry.

The couple broke up after the birth of their son, Tripp, in the month of December. Since then the relationship between the Palins and Johnston has often been strained, mostly over visitation issues.

Palin's representatives did not respond to a request for comment on the Playgirl job.

Johnston also has been marketing himself for a possible modeling or acting career, spending time in New York and Los Angeles. His first television commercial, hawking Wonderful brand pistachios, debuted this week.

No date has been set for the Playgirl photo shoot, but Butler expects the world will get a gander of the finished product by the end of the year. It is reported that the Playgirl approached Johnston about posing in the buff.

Playgirl spokesman Vincent Stevens also remained unavailable for comment.

Butler said, "We told him he would have to do what actors and actresses do," "They get in the gym."

Levi Johnston has been working out with Marvin Jones, a former Mr. Alaska competitor who has put the teenager on a low-carb, high-protein diet.