Sarah Palin is facing several challenges these days, what with her pile of legal bills, self-reinvention campaign, the whole not-being-governor thing and her daughter Bristol’s pesky ex-boyfriend, Levi Johnston, who seems to want to bask in the limelight as long as possible. Most recently, Johnston, 19, made an appearance at Sunday’s Teen Choice Awards … as the date of comedian Kathy Griffin, 48.

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“She gave me a call and offered me a date, so I took it,” Johnston, 19, told MTV News, adding that the event was “funner” than ones he’s been to in the past. “I don’t need to meet anybody else — I’ve got her.”

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