While it may seem that summer began with the Gosselin divorce and ended with Michael Jackson's burial, Memorial Day and Labor Day are what actually mark the bookends of traditional summer.

Certainly a lot happened in Celebrity Love land in between, and some of the most gobsmacking shockers came from the world of politics—where conflict is all in a day's work. YourTango's Celebrity Editor Kristine Gasbarre (independently registered, for the record) has highlighted the best of the worst for you. As we kiss this summer goodbye, we can thank these politicans' slip-ups for … Read More

Levi Johnston is burning the last of his bridges with the Palin camp.

In an interview with Vanity Fair (on stands September 8), Johnston spills the beans on Sarah Palin's worry that her teenage daughter Bristol's pregnancy would hurt her campaign for Vice President. Huffington Post via Vanity Fair quotes Johnston with the following:

Sarah told me she had a great idea: we would keep it a secret—nobody would know that Bristol was pregnant. She told me that once Bristol had the baby she and Todd would adopt him. That way, she said, Bristol and I … Read More

Set your DVRs, y'all: Bristol Palin’s ex-boyfriend, Levi Johnston, talked to Tyra Banks for the episode of her talk show to air Monday, and said that his son's grandmother, Sarah Palin, allowed him and Bristol to share a bedroom while they were dating, and that she knew they were having sex, despite the Alaska governor's well-documented abstinence-till-marriage stance. 

Us Weekly reports that Johnston, 19, tells Tyra that he's "sure [Palin] probably knew" he and 18-year-old Bristol were not reading their Bibles and discussing Keynesian economics when he stayed overnight at the family's Wasilla home. "Moms … Read More

Breakups stink. And when you're in the midst of one, it often feels as though no one in the world could possibly understand your anguish. But rest assured, gentle readers: almost everyone can. Indeed, anyone who's ever been in love has experienced heartache, including Marilyn Monroe. And Halle Berry. And the commander-in-chief of Alaska. So lick those wounds, broken-hearted beauties, and learn a few lessons from some of the rich and famous who've been through the ringer and managed to survive.Lesson 1: If you want to make your ex embarrassed and un-datableYou should: Publicly tarnish his nameLearn from: The … Read More

Doggone it! According to Radar, Bristol Palin and her boyfriend/ baby's daddy Levi Johnston (AKA Sex On Skates) have decided to quit dating.

As you may recall, Bristol Palin shocked the world (or the US of A) when it was revealed that she was a pregnant teen during her mother's vice presidency bid. Sarah Palin was (is) against abortion and comprehensive sexual education, so the revelation that her daughter was semi-secretly pregnant swung wide of irony and into karmic kismet territory. Liberal-leaning folks were a little too happy and conservatives were a little too spin-doctor-y.

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Do you remember when that woman from Alaska ran for backup president? And liberals were really nervous about her convictions on things like reproductive rights and what I call "abstinence-only sexual education" in places that I call "public schools?"* And now said woman's teenage mother of a daughter isn't so sure that it's the right call (per Jossip).

Before I get too far into this, can we just all agree that the best way to prevent sexually transmitted disease, pregnancy and some amount of teen hysteria is to remain celibate? There is at least one recorded case … Read More

 If you married right out of college, is your marriage doomed to fail?  The LoveFeed dishes advice on how to grow up without growing apart. 

The LoveFeed is YourTango's daily round-up of love, sex and relationship news and trends. New episodes Tuesday-Saturday. 

Last February brought rumors of how Jennifer Aniston likes her eggs –frozen. However, it doesn't look like she'll be dipping into her rainy-day stock, since recent reports say she'd rather have her eggs fertilized. In fact, Star has reported that she's been taking some serious steps to ready her almost-forty body for child-bearing with John Mayer. (The sooner the better!)

Star's story says that the couple is crossing their fingers for twins. (Sadly, it will still take about a dozen additional children to one-up Brangelina, especially since Angelina has a kid for ever year she … Read More

Second to black protestant teens, white Evangelical Christian teens have sex earlier than any other cultural or religious teen group, according to a government study of adolescent behavior called Add Health.

Next week's New Yorker magazine explores the possible explanations behind this surprising statistic in an article titled "Red Sex, Blue Sex." For better or worse, Bristol Palin, Sarah's 17-year-old expectant daughter, has become the poster child for all that fails in the abstinence-only, virginity-pledge system. As the article points out, virginity pledge groups work only when participation is kept below 30 percent of a specific … Read More

The country that brought loopy eyeliner, messy beehive hairdos and people named "Posh" and "Becks" to American culture has finally come up with something reasonable.  Let's hope this one gets imported -- right, mate?  

Sex education will now be obligatory for public school students in Britain in order to address the teen pregnancy rate, says Schools Minister Jim Knight.  Britain, which has the highest teen pregnancy rate in Western Europe, decided nine years ago to cut the teen pregnancy rate in half by 2010.  Compulsory sex ed is one step in its master plan -- and … Read More