The Jersey Shore family has expanded quite a bit over the years.
31.07.2023 - 16:27 / variety.com
Emily Longeretta The sweetest bitch is back. Sammi “Sweetheart” Giancola, the only original “Jersey Shore” cast member to skip the 2018 revival, is ready to be part of “Jersey Shore: Family Vacation.” “I needed the time to regroup and figure out my own life,” Giancola, 36, tells Variety of choosing not to come back until now. “I wasn’t in a good head space.
I just couldn’t do the show back then. And I’m happy that I’m able to be able to come back and do it now.” Giancola was one of the original “Jersey Shore” cast members, starring alongside Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino, Jenni “JWoww” Farley, Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi, Paul “Pauly D” DelVecchio, Angelina Pivarnick, Vinny Guadagnino and Ronnie Ortiz-Magro. Deena Cortese joined in Season 2.
The original show aired for six seasons from 2009 to 2012 and was revived with “Jersey Shore: Family Vacation” in 2018. Giancola was the only cast member that did not return, despite being repeatedly told that the door was open. “I missed filming all those years.
Why not come back and try it again, give it a shot, and see if I like it,” she continues. Spoiler alert: She liked it a lot. Pivarnick was the only roommate that knew Giancola was returning, so the others’ reactions when she walks in the house are genuine.
Over the last five years, her former cast mates said they continuously asked her to come back some claimed she’d blocked them on social media — something she denies. “I didn’t have any bad blood with anybody through the years, I was just living my own life,” she explains. The new season will also reunite Giancola with returning star Ortiz-Magro, who left the show last year to seek treatment for his mental health.
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reunited on the red carpet at the show's season six midseason premiere Wednesday, and the epic moment marked the first time Sammi «Sweetheart» Giancola has been on a carpet with her castmates since the show's original iteration,, came to an end in 2012.Paul «Pauly D» DelVecchio, Nicole «Snooki» Polizzi, Michael «The Situation» Sorrentino, Jenni «JWoww» Farley, Vinny Guadagnino, Angelina Pivarnick and Deena Nicole Cortese were all in attendance for the big night.It's remarkable to see how much the cast has grown and evolved since the world first met them over 13 years ago, when Jersey Shore premiered in December 2009.In January 2010, the cast came together for that year's Golden Globes Nominees and Presenters Day event, posing together for one of the cast's first public media gatherings, where they were all smiles, excited to be a part of a hit show.How time flies!On Wednesday, the group dressed in their Jersey finest — and Snooki even called back to the show's early days with her signature half-up half-down hairstyle, complete with the pouf — a pinned-back bouffant at the top of her head.Of course, Pauly D had to sport his go-to blowout, taking us all back to 2009, when fans were first introduced to the MTV series.A post shared by Nicole «Snooki»
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The Jersey Shore gang is back!
reunited on the red carpet at the show's season six midseason premiere Wednesday.The epic moment marked the first time Sammi «Sweetheart» Giancola has been on a carpet with her castmates since the show's original iteration,, came to an end in 2012.Paul «Pauly D» DelVecchio, Nicole «Snooki» Polizzi, Michael «The Situation» Sorrentino, Jenni «JWoww» Farley, Vinny Guadagnino, Angelina Pivarnick and Deena Nicole Cortese were all in attendance for the big night.The group dressed in their Jersey finest, with Snooki taking it back to the show's early days with her signature half-up half-down hairstyle, complete with the pouf — a pinned-back bouffant at the top of her head.