South Beach :: where the Jersey Shore boys are
When three of the male principals from MTV’s reality hit The Jersey Shore drift into a Williamsburg photo studio for a 10 a.m. call, it’s Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino who arrives last and leaves first. Sorrentino just wrapped the show’s second season and while he’s in the room, he’s the only one who’ll wrestle with the giant elephant also present: that only half the cast will be returning for season three.
"Yo, is there some story about me on Perez Hilton today?" the breakout, 28-year-old star asks his self-appointed "wrangler" John, who just shrugs. Sorrentino shoots him his "hook a brother up" look and John leans into his PDA cellphone to comb the Internet.
Sorrentino needn’t worry. He’s all set to start shooting The Jersey Shore’s third season back in Seaside Heights as soon as the Miami season premieres this week. But this morning, the daily blogosphere is predicting the other two cast members at the studio will be kicked to the curb by MTV executives. (As it turns out just one has been cut :: the network announced on July 20, 2010 that Angelina "Jolie" Pivarnick, the self-described "the Kim Kardashian of Staten Island" is the only cast member not returning for Season Three.)
Jersey Shore kids have arrived
With his roomies, Sorrentino is one of the freshly-minted faces the MTV machine prints like money. The motley housemates hark most closely to MTV’s 18-year-old, reality mothership, The Real World, only with more hair and fisticuffs. These three borough residents were plucked from obscurity and plopped into a kitted-out beach house in the grotty summer resort.
Two months ago, while addressing journalists at the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, The President excluded both "The Situation and House minority leader John Boehner" from the indoor tanning tax in his Health Care bill. With porn parodies and a branded Abercombie & Fitch bestseller already under their belts, The Jersey Shore kids finally arrived on the national stage.
"I have no control over what other people do," Sorrentino says. He’s wearing a pair of outsized, white sunglasses and dragging on a Parliament outside the studio. It’s the first of many cigarette breaks he’ll take this morning. "All I can control over is, you know, I’m The Situation -- the leader of the group -- I’m best at being me. That’s all I can control."
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