• Bristol Palin explains the F-bomb her 3-year-old dropped on ‘Life's a Tripp'

    By Peter Paras, E! Online

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    Bristol Palin.

    On the latest episode of “Bristol Palin: Life's a Tripp,” the titular single mom warns her 3-year-old that God is watching. But in this case, you're going to have to be the judge.

    "Go away, you (bleep)!" a cranky Tripp yells at his mom and Aunt Willow -- and, despite the effort to bleep it out, it sounded like the toddler used an anti-gay slur (in addition to smacking his aunt and telling both women he hated them).

    In the face of major backlash from the blogosphere, Bristol took to her blog to insist that her son may have said a bad word, but it wasn't that bad word.

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    "As I've said before, I sometimes struggle to raise Tripp," Sarah Palin's eldest daughter wrote Monday. "However, he does NOT use slurs. On the most recent episode of Life's a Tripp, the Huffington Post is reporting that my son said the word 'f----t.'

    "This is not true," she continued. "Let me be clear. I'm not proud of what he did say. Sadly, he used a different 'f word.'"

    Life's a Tripp showrunner Matt Lutz backs up Bristol's story, telling Gawker (which heard the more patently offensive of two evils) that Tripp said "f--k" and not "f----t."

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    Lutz says he was in the room when the word was uttered and he has gone through the raw footage multiple times.

    "Lifetime filmed over 12 months (on and off) and they caught a moment on film that would cause any parent to be red in the face," Bristol's statement continued. "Tripp is always surrounded by adults -- around the campfires with cousins and their friends, at the shop with my dad and his snowmachine buddies. He's apparently picked up some language that I'd prefer he not use. On national television or at home.

    "I do oppose gay marriage, as I've written about before (and the HuffPo points out). I guess the temptation to label my three year old son is just too great for the lefty papers to resist. However, one of my new Twitter followers made an excellent point. He tweeted that the left tries to hold my three year old son more accountable than their adult spokespeople."

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    But while Bristol maintains that Tripp dropped a four-letter word, she has traveled the apology route for a family member's use of the other F-word before.

    "Willow and I shouldn't have reacted to negative comments about our family. We apologize," she wrote on Facebook in November 2010 after Willow caught heat for calling a former classmate a "f----t" after he bashed their mom's show Sarah Palin's Alaska.

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  • What F-bomb did Bristol Palin's 3-year-old son drop on 'Life's a Tripp'?

    By Courtney Hazlett, TODAY

    Tripp Palin, Bristol's son and the youngest member of the Palin family, is at the center of the latest family controversy. As seen in an episode of Lifetime's "Life's a Tripp,"  the 3-year-old, in the midst of an argument with his mom and aunt Willow Palin yells to Willow "Go away you f-----." The word itself is bleeped out, and based on Willow and Bristol's mostly amused reactions, it's difficult to know what exactly he said.

    "What did you just say?" Bristol asked, while giggling, after Tripp's outburst. In a voice over, Bristol addressed the situation saying, "I'm doing a terrible job disciplining Tripp. I know he's going to continue to push the boundaries and push the limits."

    The video, which you can watch here, prompted many to speculate that Tripp used an anti-gay slur, but "Life's a Tripp" showrunner Matt Lutz told Gawker it was not, just the use of another F word (the one that rhymes with "luck," so to speak).


    Ultimately, we're reminded that this isn't the first time the Palin family has come under fire for using the anti-gay slur. During the premiere of "Sarah Palin's Alaska" in 2010, Willow  addressed a critic of the show by writing on her Facebook page, "Haha your so gay. I have no idea who you are, But what I've seen pictures of, your disgusting ... My sister has a kid and is still hot." She followed that up with another comment that read, "Tre stfu. Your such a f----."

    Bristol, speaking for herself and Willow, later apologized.

    As for the current incident, Bristol has made no mention of it on her Facebook page, or her Twitter account.

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  • 'Life's a Tripp' offers 'no-holds-barred' look at Bristol Palin's life

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    Bristol Palin is ready to make her private life public in "Life's a Tripp."

    By Reuters

    Bristol Palin says she is just a "grounded, normal mom", and is hoping her new reality TV show will prove it. "Life's a Tripp", which premieres on the Lifetime channel on Tuesday, June 19, is being promoted as an inside look at the life of "America's most famous teen mom" in the face of intense media scrutiny.

    It follows the eldest daughter of polarizing conservative politician Sarah Palin as she embarks on her latest adventure - a move from her Wasilla, Alaska hometown to a Los Angeles mansion owned by a family friend, and back again -- along with her young son Tripp.

    Palin burst onto the national scene four years ago in what she now calls "one of the most intense and embarrassing ways possible" as the accidentally pregnant, unmarried 17-year-old daughter of the 2008 Republican vice-presidential candidate.

    She has since parlayed her notoriety into a lucrative career as a speaker on teen pregnancy prevention, a somewhat tongue-tied stint on "Dancing With the Stars", a 2011 memoir, a controversial blog, and now her own 10-episode reality show.


    "Bristol really didn't hold back. As the series progresses, she really opens up her life to us," Matt Lutz, one of the show's producers, told Reuters.

    "We see her relationship with her son, with her family, her boyfriend, we see her struggles as a single mom, and struggling dealing with her ex-fiancé Levi Johnston and his role in Tripp's life. It's really a no-holds-barred look at Bristol's life," Lutz said.

    Volunteering, shopping, fighting 

    Early episodes of the show see Bristol doing volunteer work for a few weeks at small Los Angeles charity "Help the Children", while her 17-year-old sister Willow takes care of 3-year-old Tripp -- until Willow gets fed up and packs her bags for Wasilla.

    In between times, the sisters hang out at cafes, take Tripp to playgrounds, argue over childcare and disparage L.A.'s trashier clothing styles while shopping.

    Bristol Palin also rides a mechanical bull during a night out with friends in a Hollywood bar, and she runs into a heckler who calls her mother evil and a whore.

    The heckler this week filed a lawsuit accusing Palin of defamation for citing the 2011 incident in her decision to leave Los Angeles and accusing Lifetime of filming him without permission.

    Clearly ill at ease in the Hollywood spotlight, Palin moved back to Alaska after about three months of filming, and the show returns with her to follow her life back home.

    The larger Palin clan of five children and mom Sarah, who were seen in last year's reality series "Sarah Palin's Alaska", are also featured, producers say.

    "Once we head back to Alaska, you see her in her natural environment with her family. I think the later episodes are more representative of her life but the first few are her having an experience and an adventure in Los Angeles," said Lutz.

    That adventure wasn't Bristol Palin's first solo effort. She bought a house in Phoenix, Arizona in late 2010 but rented it out after a few months before selling it in the spring of 2012.

    The series has a nomadic history of its own. It was first planned as a show about Palin sharing an L.A. apartment with her "Dancing With the Stars" pal Kyle Massey and his actor brother Chris and was expected to air on the BIO channel in 2011.

    BIO scrapped it and Lifetime took over, retooling it as a series focusing on Palin and her son.

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  • Bristol Palin gets her own reality TV show

    By Us Weekly

    Bristol Palin is returning to reality TV!

    Two years after competing on ABC's "Dancing With the Stars," single mom Palin, 20, is set to appear in her own 10-episode Lifetime reality series, "Bristol Palin: Life's a Tripp."

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    "From the first moment she was thrust into the public eye, Bristol and her son have been the subjects of a huge amount of curiosity and misunderstanding. This show will reveal the real Bristol Palin and her journey as a daughter, a mother and a young woman making her way in the world, the network's Executive Vice President, Programming Rob Sharenow told Us Weekly in a statement Wednesday.

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    Palin's docuseries -- costarring her 3-year-old son with ex Levi Johnston -- is expected to premiere later this year.


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