Bristol Palin on her new reality show. "I wanted to show how down-to-earth my family and I are." So this is on the Sci-Fi channel?

"Let me get this straight. I'M the star of the show and I STILL have to push my own stroller?"

Courtesy of TV Guide:

When a planned reality show about Bristol Palin and her Dancing With the Stars friend Kyle Massey and his actor brother, Chris, fell apart, Lifetime offered the daughter of former GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin her own series instead. "I was game for it," says the 21-year-old single mom. "I wanted to show how down-to-earth my family and I are." (Translation: "I was desperate top get ANYTHING on the air after so many failures. If it takes riding my son's coattails to be on TV then so be it!")


The result: Bristol Palin: Life's a Tripp, a 14-episode show premiering June 19 that follows Bristol and her 3½-year-old son, Tripp, from their hometown in Wasilla, Alaska, to Los Angeles, where Palin takes a job with a nonprofit. (Is it ACTUALLY considered working at a non-profit if you are paid to be filmed "working " there?)


"My parents were skeptical at first," she admits. "But they know I'm responsible. I won't be getting drunk on TV. This isn't Jersey Shore. It's a family show." The most fun for her? "Watching my son grow up over the series — some of the stuff he says is hilarious!"

Pimping out your child to make money, now WHERE did Bristol ever learn that?

Does ANYBODY actually believe that this all happened without Sarah's "claw of manipulation" guiding the process? Yeah, not me either.

One has to wonder just what kind of "family show" this will be? (I assume something like the Addams Family only far creepier.)

Perhaps she will spend time teaching Tripp the importance of having a strong father figure in his life?

Or perhaps not.


What’s more, she has made sure that their son, Tripp, will at some point be treated to a worldview-shaping image of Dad as something akin to a date rapist. That’s the description of him immortalized in her memoir, one of her many efforts to monetize her surname. It recounts the loss of her virginity as a result of getting drunk and blacking out in the company of Levi, who pounced. What a gift that narrative is to Tripp, now being hauled into a TV reality show, “Bristol Palin: Life’s a Tripp,” already in production. Little children are known to thrive in such environments.

Or perhaps she will teach him how to dress in an appropriate manner before posting your picture on Facebook?

 Or not.

Well it is good to know she at least won't be getting drunk on the show. (You know like those Jersey Shore Twitter bitches!)

Been there, done that.

Yeah, you know I don't see ANYTHING positive coming out of this show for Tripp. Unless of course this finally wakes Levi the hell up and motivates him to start working to protect his son from this type of exploitation.

Or at the very least helps him get a lawyer to protect his slice of that reality show pie.

Hell his name is in the title! That should earn him at least SOME share of the profit.

Then, when he makes enough money, perhaps he can afford to buy a family that actually cares about HIM, and does not view him as a commodity to be monetized for the largest possible profit.

After all, a boy can dream can't he?