Bristol Palin wants everybody to know that she CHOSE to leave Hollywood in order to go back to being a "home town girl." NOT because she is a loser who could not make it as reality TV star!

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I still find it rather humorous that the Palins HAVE to try and put out their own version of why Bristol is back living at home, rather than let people reach the rather obvious conclusion that her reality show bombed and her mother's disappearance from the political stage has made her a virtual non-entity.

By the way you may have noticed pictures of Gino Paoletti flash across the screen during the video. Apparently, according to my sources in Wasilla, he is back with Bristol, who has worked her way through all of the other desperate men in town, and decided that Gino is the best she can do.

He has been seen around "The Silla" decked out in designer clothes, acting like a man of means instead of a glorified Palin boy toy, and Tripp is now being encouraged to call him "Dad." Just in case you thought having Tripp back in Alaska meant he might spend more time with Levi and his family.

Not hardly.

Speaking of Levi, I recently had an interesting conversation with a friend of my daughter's, who just so happened to have flown back from Arizona on June 16 of this last year.

While on this flight she noticed that Levi was sitting in the very back row of the commercial jet with Tripp. (This would have been the day AFTER Bristol put her Arizona house up for rent.) Now from what I heard Bristol was NOT on this flight, which leads me to believe that, for whatever reason, she decided not to come to Alaska yet and told Levi if he wanted to see Tripp he would have to come and get him.

However, and this is the confusing part, Sarah was also on this flight sitting directly across the aisle from Levi and Tripp.

My daughter's friend said that she would never have recognized her, or even noticed her, except that she kept hearing this young girl yelling. The young girl turned out to be Piper, who the friend recognized and that led her to take a closer look at who Piper was bitching at and realized it was Palin attempting to remain incognito behind a straw hat and oversized sunglasses.

The friend then noticed that Trig was on the the plane as well, but sitting with an older woman, and NOT with the Grizzled Mama. The friend said she assumed the older lady was a nanny, and she was very good with Trig who was well behaved during the entire flight. Piper on the other hand acted like a spoiled brat, and Sarah did NOTHING to effectively correct her behavior or quiet her down.

Apparently Palin did not even acknowledge Levi and Tripp, never speaking a word to either one.  But the friend said that Levi was very good with Tripp and that he also was quiet and well behaved during the flight.

One has to wonder how long THAT will last now that he rarely sees his dad, and is being encouraged to call his mom's bed warmer "Dad?"

P.S. One more thing. They were flying coach.