'Jersey' Girl No Longer Snookin' for Love
Snooki finally found what she searched the entire "Jersey Shore" for all summer -- a musclebound juice-head to call her own!
We got Snicks outside LAX this weekend, where after confirming she'll be back for Season 2, she also added she's got a boyfriend ... and he's cut just the way she likes it.
Now if she could just figure out how to properly use that damn duck phone ...
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'Jersey Shore's' Angelina I'm Coming Too!
Angelina Pivarnick says she'll be back for Season 2 of "Jersey Shore" -- and she's ready to get her claws on J-WOWW's extensions.
The "Kim Kardashian of Staten Island" says J-WOWW should prepare for a War on the Shore for dissing her last week on TMZ -- threatening "I don't wanna fight with people in the house, but if I have to, I have to."
FYI -- In a poll from a previous post, 87% of you guys sided with J-WOWW ... and said "ban" Angelina from Season 2.
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'Jersey Shore' Cast -- All for One, One for All
The "Jersey Shore" cast will all be paid the same for season 2 of the MTV show, sources connected with the negotiations tell TMZ.
We're told it was important the producers wanted to avoid infighting among the cast ... at least on the subject of money -- so Pauly D, The Situation, Snooki and the gang will all be paid exactly the same.
As we first reported, the cast negotiated their deals like the cast of "Friends" -- either they all got paid the same ... or nobody got paid.
We already posted that Vinnie took the $10,000 per episode offer, so we're assuming the price was right for the rest of the cast as well.
A rep for MTV had no comment.
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'Jersey Shore' Cast Inks Season 2 Deal
"Jersey Shore" fans rest easy -- the deal has been made and the whole gang will be back for Season 2.
MTV made it official late last night, right before the Friday deadline we told you about.
Pauly D, The Situation, Snooki, J-WOWW, Sammi, Ronnie and Vinny will return this summer, but not to New Jersey. The network says the crew will "escape the cold Northeast and find themselves in a new destination."
Warm weather cities -- you have been warned.
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J-WOWW Shore Hates a 'Jersey' Cast Member
J-WOWW will be back for Season Two of "Jersey Shore" -- but there's one former cast member she doesn't want to see fist-pumping beside her at Karma next summer.
Last night at Glo on Long Island, the house's most voluptuous lady told us she hopes Angelina -- the motormouthed tyrant who bailed on the show after a few episodes -- stays the hell away from "Jersey" next season ... something we think the rest of the cast members could actually agree on.
So we gotta ask...
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'Jersey Shore' Cast, MTV Strike Deal
The entire "Jersey Shore" cast has agreed in principle to come back on board for Season 2 ... sources connected with the negotiations tell TMZ.
As we first reported, MTV gave The Situation, Snooki, Pauly D and the rest of the crew a deadline of today at the end of business, or else they'd all be replaced. We know the offer on the table was $10,000 per episode ... we do not know the magic number that ended the stalemate.
We're told lawyers are trying to work out specific language and terms and they're all hoping they can put a bow on it tonight.
UPDATE: We've learned Vinny accepted MTV's $10,000 per episode offer. We're told one of the terms the lawyers are hammering out is the number of appearances the cast can make outside the show. Cast members -- especially Snooki, Pauly D and The Situation -- want the right to appear at as many as four clubs and other venues a week ... where they've been raking in good money in appearance fees.
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The Situation Stomachs the Competition
"Jersey Shore" housemates J-Woww and The Situation took their "guido" tour to Mansion in Miami on Wednesday, where they judged something called the ABSolutely best hard body contest.
If all the original "guidos" and "guidettes" don't re-up their contracts quick, MTV will have plenty of new Situations to deal with.
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'Jersey Shore' Cast Starting to Fold
Two of the cast members of "Jersey Shore" have agreed to MTV's offer of $10,000 an episode, but the others are still holding out ... sources connected to the negotiations tell TMZ.
Ronnie and J-WOWW have accepted MTV's offer. A well-placed MTV source tells TMZ the network is drawing a hard line at the close of business tomorrow -- the rest of the cast members must either accept the offer or MTV replaces them.
Earlier in the week we told you MTV's original deadline was Monday night -- but the network continued negotiations and now they say it's do or die.
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Pauly D's DJ Fee -- Spinning Out of Control
Pauly D isn't just trying to land $10,000 an episode for Season Two of "Jersey Shore" -- it's also become his going rate for a night's work on the turntables.
TMZ has learned the Cadillac tattooed "guido" is trying to solidify DJing residencies across the country. His plan: To provide the fist pump soundtrack once every six weeks at three different clubs -- for anywhere between $10,000-$25,000 a gig.
FYI -- Before becoming The Situation's summertime wingman, Pauly D was pulling in $1,000 a night, 4-5 nights a week in Providence, RI.
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'Jersey Shore' -- MTV Tries to Divide and Conquer
The stars of "Jersey Shore" have been negotiating with MTV like "Friends"... but the network could be turning them into enemies with some serious brinkmanship.
Sources tell TMZ the network has told the cast if they don't accept MTV's deal by the end of business Monday, they will be replaced. And, MTV has told them it does not have to be a package deal -- the cast members who accept the offer will stay ... those who do not can have a nice life.
As we first reported, MTV offered each cast member a $10,000 signing bonus and $5,000 per episode. We're told the cast rejected the offer and made it clear they would all stand together and hold out for their price, though they didn't say what it was.
MTV made a new offer of $10,000 an episode -- there are 12 episodes in the new season -- but so far the cast hasn't responded.
We're told MTV already has replacements if Snooki, Pauly D, The Situation and the others don't accept the offer on Monday. But, we're told, MTV is happy to mix and match if some of the cast accepts the offer and others don't.
As for who's being the most hard-headed in the negotiations -- The Situation and Pauly D.
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'Jersey Shore' Kids Drive Hard Bargain
The "Jersey Shore" kids didn't fall off the pizza delivery truck yesterday -- TMZ has learned they have rejected MTV's salary offer for Season 2.
Sources connected with the negotiation say MTV offered Snooki, Pauly D, "The Situation" and the others each a $10,000 signing bonus and $5,000 an episode.
We're told the cast rejected the offer and made it clear -- they were negotiating "Friends" style ... everyone would get the same amount and it had to be a lot higher than MTV's offer.
Sources say MTV came back and doubled the offer -- $10,000 an episode. The cast hasn't responded to the offer.
It's still a bargain. The season finale of "Jersey Shore" was off the charts with 4.8 million viewers.
And, with some members of "The Hills" scoring north of $100,000 an episode, the "Jersey Shore" kids, frankly, should be holding out for a hell of a lot more than $10k.
We've also learned MTV has a contractual hold on the cast for another year, so technically Snooki and company have no right to renegotiate -- but it's done all the time with hit shows.
An MTV spokesperson would not comment on the negotiations and said the network has not made a decision on bringing the show back for Season 2. We're also told MTV has received thousands of tapes from would-be Guidos and Guidettes.
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'Jersey Shore' Guys Hit Vegas
After delivering huge ratings for the "Jersey Shore" finale, Mike "The Situation" and DJ Pauly D took their act to JET in Las Vegas on Friday night.
Judging by the bevy of women by their side all night -- and the 276 photos we got to prove it -- it appeared to have gone well.
'Jersey Shore' Party Shut Down
Everyone loves "The Jersey Shore" -- but not everyone can fit inside a small New Jersey club, so they had to shut the club down.
Law enforcement in Montlcair, NJ tells TMZ the event at the 501 Lounge got waaaaaay overcrowded, so the fire department shut the whole club down.
A source inside the club tells us J-WOWW and Vinny were there for the event and they actually had to be hidden away in a closet while the club was cleared out.
They escaped unscathed.
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Jersey Whore -- Ronnie Gets With Other Woman
"Jersey Shore's" Ronnie might have some serious 'splaining to do -- cause dude was super close to some chick in a bar this week who wasn't his girlfriend Sammi "Sweetheart."
Anthony Pisciotto Jr., owner of OnCampusDrama.com, shot these pics of Ronnie oozing his Ron Ron Juice all over a couple of non-Sammi guidettes on Long Island.
TMZ spoke with a rep from the bar -- the Dublin Down Tavern -- who confirmed Ronnie was there on Tuesday hosting an event ... but his GF was nowhere to be found. No word on who the mystery woman is.
FYI -- Ronnie's Facebook profile still says that he's in a relationship. Check back tomorrow.
Never fall in love on the "Jersey Shore."
UPDATE: Apparently Ronnie and Sammi broke up during the taping of the "Jersey Shore" reunion show, which aired last night ... looks like it didn't take long to move on.
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Ronnie Still On Hook for 'Jersey Shore' Knockout
Ronnie from "Jersey Shore" went on a radio show and proclaimed that his sucker punch case had been officially dismissed -- unfortunately for him, someone's info is waaaayyy off.
It's all over an incident featured on the MTV reality show -- where Ronnie was arrested after bragging about knocking out some guy in "one shot." Yesterday, Ronnie and GF Sammi "Sweetheart" were on B100 in Davenport, Iowa, where they said, "The case is dismissed, all the charges were dropped."
But according to the Ocean County Prosecutor's office, the investigation is ongoing -- and the fist pumping reality star still faces a charge of 3rd degree aggravated assault.
Despite the victim -- a guy named Stephen Izzo -- telling TMZ he's going to show up to Ronnie's court date in a couple weeks, we're told no date has actually been set.
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'Jersey' Knockout Victim -- One Huge Racist
The guy Ronnie cold-cocked on "Jersey Shore" has unleashed a hateful, n-word riddled statement on his Facebook page -- verbally attacking the Black MTV security guards he fought on last week's episode.
Stephen Izzo -- the guy who got his ass kicked -- took to the Internet after the episode aired ... and typed the following disgusting tirade:
"lets get something straight what u didnt see is i never fought ronnie i was fighting...those N**GER bouncers when that bitch ran over and snuck me..then got stomped out by those 3 n**gers as he ran away."
Izzo also uses several other slurs in various updates to his profile, including the word "mulian" ... which is a misspelled racist Italian-American term for Black people.
UPDATE: Izzo tells TMZ, "First of all these guys pushed my female friend on the ground. But I was on a show that uses the derogatory slang word for Italians, 'guido.' I am not a racist, I was using a slang word just the same as the way guido is used on the show."