Jan 25, 2011 13:34 GMT  ·  By
Bristol Palin goes in rumor control mode, talks new boyfriend, wanting to change Tripp’s name to Palin
   Bristol Palin goes in rumor control mode, talks new boyfriend, wanting to change Tripp’s name to Palin

She rarely talks about her personal life and whether she’s dating anyone or not, but, during a recent radio show, the co-hosts managed to get Bristol Palin to confirm that she was in a relationship, possibly with a pipeline worker.

A few days ago, rumor broke that Bristol and a 20-year-old Alaska pipeline worker were dating and becoming quite serious about it too.

When KWHL’s The Bob & Mark Show hosts asked her whether there was any truth to that rumor, she first tried to avoid answering it, saying, “Are you guys getting personal with me, really?”

Afterwards, as the audio clip embedded below will confirm, one of the hosts suggested to Bristol a way to answer the question without actually putting too much out there.

“Yeah, you know what, I’m seeing a guy and he’s really great and Tripp loves him and we’re having a really good time and we’re really good friends,” he told her to say.

Bristol seemed ok with that – but she did, however, adapt all this to make sure she didn’t give out too many details.

“Yeah, we can go with that. I’m thrilled. I love the town that I live in. I love my house. Tripp’s happy; he’s healthy,” she gushed.

In the same interview, she addressed another rumor as well, the one according to which she wanted Levi Johnston to sign over parental rights over Tripp so that she could change his name to Palin.

That’s old news, she said, an issued she’d talked to Levi countless times and not recently, as some media outlets made it sound.

“Yeah, I’ve asked Levi to do it many different times, just get it out of the way, just sign over his parental rights, but I don’t know if he will or if he wants to right now,” Bristol revealed.

“‘He’s always going to be your son, you can see him whenever you want to,’ but he just doesn’t want to sign him over because it looks bad on paper,” she added.

She also said that, since she did Dancing With the Stars, Levi visited Tripp about three times at the most – for a few hours, not whole weekends.

For the full interview, check out the video below.