LOS ANGELES - Levi Johnston was looking and acting mighty "Hollywood" Monday when he arrived -- late -- for his "After Love" video shoot with Minnesota's Brittani Senser.
Johnston's gray sports coat was so shiny his dark glasses might have been needed to reduce the glare off that garment and his, ah, thin gold chain. You could almost hear former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, maternal grandmother of Johnston's baby boy, sarcastically pretending to be him and asking: Does this make me look cheesy or what?
Senser's Minnesota team was busy explaining away Johnston's tardiness after one member of the entourage said Johnston's being late was just "Levi being Levi."
Moments later, someone else averred that Johnston wasn't late, the director of the video had changed the time Levi needed to be there. Uh-huh. Nobody gave the woman who appeared in charge of makeup that memo, as she repeatedly came outside inquiring about Johnston's ETA. "He needs to go directly to makeup," she said urgently.
Janet Charlton of janetcharltonsholly wood.com, who put me up during my brief West Coast jaunt, spent part of her workday Monday calling me with updates on Web reports about Johnston's movements around L.A., allegedly while being tailed by paparazzi. Charlton said if the paps really want you, they don't lose you. So it looks like the shooters weren't too interested in this country boy Thrilla from Wasilla.
You will only see one camera guy with Johnston in my WORLDWIDE EXCLUSIVE VIDEO of Levi's arrival at the manor where part of the music video was shot. I assume that camera guy was affiliated with this purported reality show (which we hope will be more successful than one of Johnston's marriage proposals); the show will capture Johnston making his own mayoral run in Wasilla, where Grandma Palin got her start in politics.
He should be a shoo-in for Palin's support when she realizes that a run for public office by the high school dropout is likely to be the most ambitious chapter in Johnston's young life -- since, that is, he became an accidental relative by conceiving a baby with Palin's daughter Bristol, leaving her an unwed teenage mother.
TMZ was very interested in my Johnston arrival footage. By turn, I'm intrigued by somebody from Senser's camp apparently leaking (and probably for a price) the purported story line of her music video (www.tinyurl.com/22vy3ro), which contributed to the demise of Levi's second engagement to Bristol.
