“We’re collectively, lightning in a bottle, the Avengers of actuality TV, however extra in order that I really feel like authenticity has been key, unapologetically ourselves always,” The State of affairs tells TooFab.
Over 15 years in the past, Mike “The State of affairs” Sorrentino and his roommates graced the small display for the primary time on MTV’s Jersey Shore, which might finally grow to be a popular culture phenomenon, and make him and his castmates family names.
Now, as Mike and his co-stars — Pauly “DJ Pauly D” Delvecchio, Vinny Guadagnino, Angelina Pivarnick, Jenni “JWoww” Farley, Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi, Deena Nicole Cortese, Samantha “Sammi Sweetheart” Giancola and Ronnie Ortiz-Magro — return to the place all of it started in Seaside Heights, New Jersey for Season 8 of the present’s reunion collection, Jersey Shore Household Trip, the truth star is trying again at his journey on the franchise and reflecting on its legacy.
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In an interview with TooFab, Mike, 42, opened up about what he believes makes followers nonetheless need to tune in 15 years after they first realized all about GTL, fist-pumping, and guidos.
Jersey Shore first premiered in December 2009, and ran for six seasons. Almost six years later, Mike and (most of) the crew reunited for Jersey Shore Household Trip, which premiered in 2018. Season 8 of the spinoff collection — which premieres on Jerzday, Thursday, Might 29 — marks the fifteenth anniversary and general season of the present.
When requested what he believes is the present’s “secret sauce,” Mike stated, “I believe that, you already know, I am an enormous fan of the present, and all of my castmates. They’re brothers and sisters to me. However hear, each considered one of ’em, they’re family names. They’ve hundreds of thousands of followers on each platform. I really feel like we’re collectively, lightning in a bottle, the Avengers of actuality TV, however extra in order that I really feel like authenticity has been key, unapologetically ourselves always, wherein why our present has been so relatable to the viewer and to the followers, they usually’ve grown up with us and we’re like brothers and sisters.”
Mike — who shares Romeo, 3, Mia, 2, and Luna, 13 months, with spouse Lauren Sorrentino — famous how he will get approached by loving followers when he goes out in public.
“You need to see once I go for, like, a CVS run. Individuals are coming as much as me like I am their brother or their son or their uncle, hugs, and, you already know, ‘How’s Lauren?’ and ‘How’s the youngsters?’ And it is so, so very particular,” he advised TooFab. “It is undoubtedly a once-in-a-lifetime sort of present, and I am very blessed to be concerned.”
“I assume it is a reward for, you already know, being authentically ourselves and in addition being so relatable and sharing our lives with America for thus lengthy,” he added.
For the brand new season of Jersey Shore Household Trip, followers will see Mike and the gang going again to the OG shore home in Seaside Heights — and it seems many viewers will likely be experiencing some deja vu.
“I imply, you are simply tremendous grateful. You’ll be able to’t consider that you just’re on this experience and it has lasted 15 years, and that the general public and followers have grown up with you,” Mike shared. “It is kind of like a pinch-me second, you already know? And now you are again within the shore home. It smells the identical, it seems to be the identical. And also you’re simply your mates who at the moment are just about household, doing, like, ‘Take a look at us. Take a look at us. Look, look what we did.’ You recognize?””
“And the story continues. It is an incredible story, and I am very, very blessed to be part of it,” he added. “So you already know, Seaside has a really particular place in our coronary heart, and really glad that we celebrated our fifteenth anniversary there, and we closed out this season over there as nicely.”
And for individuals who could also be questioning, sure, the long-lasting duck cellphone is nonetheless there — together with just a few different Jersey Shore memorabilia, together with the well-known be aware Snooki and JWoww wrote to Sammi to disclose Ronnie had allegedly cheated on her.
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“The duck cellphone is there and it’s intact,” Mike stated. “It is part of tradition at this second. Together with the be aware, you already know, the neck brace and the sun shades, you already know. Jersey Shore has had an enormous half in tradition and actuality TV, and you already know, we’ve got fairly the story.”
Mike described the present as a “ceremony of passage,” noting that it has tagged together with followers as they’ve grown up — and has gained new viewers alongside the way in which.
“It is for, you already know, the highschool courses to look at the outdated or the unique Jersey Shore, after which once you go to varsity, you could have the be aware in your lobby, you already know what I imply? On a sheet,” he stated. “And also you see it in all places. You recognize, it is so loopy what this present become. And now, that is the fifteenth anniversary. So for followers, who’ve grown up with us and new followers, they love us and we love them too.”
As for who he believes has modified essentially the most through the years, Mike named himself.
“Huge Daddy Sitch has had fairly the journey,” he stated. “I am now 10 years clear and sober. I am 10 years this yr, and a loyal, devoted husband, dad of three. You recognize, I am opening up my very own therapy facilities this yr referred to as the Archangel Facilities. You recognize, I had this bestselling autobiography, which was killing the sport the previous 12 months. So, it has been fairly a experience.”
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“I might undoubtedly assume I might vote myself solely due to the, you already know, the sobriety journey,” Mike continued. “I used to be most likely one of many wildest forged members … to now [being on] this wonderful sober journey that I am on to be the mature good pal that I’m to my roommates.”
The Actuality Test writer stated he is “turned my ache into goal,” including that his story “has helped others.”
“My life story is now different individuals’s survival information,” he defined. “And I really feel like I discovered, you already know, my method in life, and others can too. If Mike The State of affairs can do it, and be 10 years clear and sober, so are you able to.”
Mike went on to open up about how he’ll see the present 15 years from now, and shared whether or not he’ll let his children watch it in the future.
“I believe that I am going to most likely let my kids watch the present, Jersey Shore Household Trip, after they flip 16 or 18, which is the Household Trip collection,” he advised TooFab. “Because it pertains to possibly the uncensored Jersey Shore model, possibly they gotta flip 21 for that.”
“As you guys all know, Huge Daddy Sitch may be very happy with his story, as I am now 10 years clear and sober, my rise and fall and rise once more is the instance,” he continued. “And the epitome of the comeback is bigger than the setback. I am a sober legend within the streets.”
“So, I am very proud that, you already know, my kids have, you already know, an excellent instance to develop as much as or no matter,” he continued. “And once more, you already know, in case you guys do not know, Huge Daddy Sitch has an autobiography within the streets, Actuality Test: How I Overcame Habit, Loss, and Jail in all varieties. And we bought seven figures for the yr in product sales, and we self-published. So everybody loves comeback story.”
Jersey Shore Household Trip premieres Thursday, Might twenty ninth at 8 p.m. ET/PT on MTV.
