Now that Kate Gosselin has dropped ten pounds, eighty-sixed the reverse mullet and joined the cast of Dancing with the Stars, Jon Gosselin is very, very unhappy. But don’t you worry — he’ll find his way back into the spotlight, even if he has to pull down his pants to do it. According to MSNBC

Playgirl magazine will not be [offering Gosselin] anything near the $100,000 Levi Johnston got for posing.

“We discussed it, and we’d offer him only $20,000,” Playgirl rep Daniel Nardicio told Life & Style.

His diminishing popularity has something to do with it. “His star is extinguishing, and honestly, it’d be more of a novelty than an actual sexy shoot,” Nardicio said.

I can’t believe Playgirl is balking at the chance to have Jon Gosselin pose nude. I’m sure there are a lot of gay men out there who would love to see a doughy, middle-aged Korean with bitch tits and stingray mouth artfully arrayed across the glossy pages of a magazine. The real trick here would be convincing the readers it’s not actually Margaret Cho. I can see how that might pose a problem.

Kate at a DWTS thing last night:

PHOTO SOURCE: Pacific Coast News

Levi Johnston’s long-awaited Playgirl pics are finally here, and the first thing you’ll notice about the photos is that there’s no full-frontal nudity at all. WTF?! I don’t know why the hell you would pose in magazine like Playgirl and not show off your wiener. That’s like an ice cream sundae without the cherry on top or Christmas without vodka. It’s just plain wrong if you ask me.

Several of the thumbs have full ass crack, so possibly NSFW:

Levi Johnston, best known as “the guy who knocked up Sarah Palin’s daughter,” will be posing nude in a photo shoot for gay men’s magazine Playgirl. The Daily Mail says

Levi Johnston, the ex-lover of Mrs Palin’s 18-year-old daughter Bristol, is training three hours a day, six nights a week at a gym in Alaska in preparation for the shoot.

Mr 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.

No date has been set for the Playgirl photo shoot, but it is expected to be previewed by the end of the year.

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

So Levi Johnston will be showing the world his johnson. Ha ha, get it? Johnston, johnson? It’s a wiener joke. I wouldn’t want a joke that subtle to slip right over your head.

Not showing his wiener in GQ: