SURELY you jest, Dina.

Lindsay Lohan’s mother, Dina Lohan, says her wild-child daughter won’t appear on Dina’s new reality show - because it wouldn’t be good for her career.

What?!

“I told Lindsay I don’t want her on the show right now,” Dina Lohan tells TV Guide about “Living Lohan,” premiering May 26 on E!

“Doing reality TV would almost be taking a step backward as far as her career goes.”

The eight-episode E! series will follow Dina and her other daughter, starlet-in-training Ali, as they move from Long Island (Merrick) to the Palms hotel in Las Vegas so Ali can record her new album in the desert air.

The series is the latest sideshow in the media circus otherwise known as the Lohan family.

That includes not only Lindsay’s well-documented boozy troubles - which have been tabloid fodder for years now - but her dad, Michael Lohan, who’s had his own brushes with rehab and the law.

Michael Lohan won’t be featured in the show.

“We kept personal family issues with their dad off-limits,” Dina says. “No one wants to bash anyone.

“So we didn’t go there.”

And, Dina says. what you hear isn’t necessarily the way it really is behind-the-scenes.

“I just want to get the message across that we are a normal family,” she tells TV Guide.

“People believe I’m this crazy party mom, [but] I have never partied with Lindsay.

“If another manager goes with their child to a record-release party, it’s not in the papers,” she says. “I’m a female, so I get targeted.”

Okkkaaayyy . . . but why do a reality show?

Well, according to Dina - you guessed it - it’s the bad old media who’s to blame for the family’s less-than-stellar public image.

“I did this to defuse the rumors about my family,” she says. “The media has just been so horrific to us over the past two years.”