The Jersey Shore family has expanded quite a bit over the years.
01.08.2023 - 22:35 / perezhilton.com
Sammi “Sweetheart” Giancola is reminiscing on the Jersey Shore reunion!
As fans saw in the trailer for Jersey Shore: Family Vacation‘s new season, Sammi has indeed returned to the show, shocking her former castmates Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino, Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi, Jenni “JWoww” Farley, Paul “Pauly D” DelVecchio, Deena Cortese, Angelina Pivarnick, and of course Ronnie Ortiz-Magro. While on a vacation in the mountains, the Shore family had a huge surprise when they heard the 36-year-old would be back for the full new season!
In case you need a refresher, you can see THAT clip (below):
But what was it like for Sammi to make her big return? Well, it wasn’t as drama-filled as she expected, that’s for sure!
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While speaking to People on Monday, she dished she actually “missed” being on the show “for so long” and now that she’s “happy” in her life, she decided to return — but that didn’t help her apprehension to face her former co-stars after so long:
She said nothing major happened between herself and the group, they just “went their own ways”:
Luckily for Sammi, it wasn’t as hard as she thought it’d be! She said everyone was just as she remembered them:
Sweet!
One person she definitely didn’t keep in touch with, though, was Ronnie — she admitted she hadn’t seen or spoken to him in over a decade when they met up again for the revival series:
Ouch! Now Sammi has a “loving” and “very supportive” relationship with Justin May, who she “absolutely” adores:
And Ron is just “just some guy I dated in my 20s at this point.” But she still “wishes him the best”, as she told PageSix on Monday:
Sammi told People she wouldn’t change a single thing about her past,
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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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