Jersey Shore cast: Where are they now as Mike Sorrentino turns 40?
From rehab to their own dating shows and stripping in Vegas, take a look at the cast of Jersey Shore, the first reality TV show of its kind and where they are now
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Jersey Shore was a landmark show for reality television when it first aired in 2009, and it has since set a benchmark that spin offs like Geordie Shore have tried to emulate.
The show followed a group of young party-goers as they fought and laughed and drank in various cities around the world, including Seaside Heights, New Jersey in season one, South Beach, Florida in season two, and Florence, Italy in season four.
But, as one of the shows most famous stars from the show, Mike Sorentino turns 40, where have the cast ended up after their rise to fame?
Mike Sorrentino, 40
Arriving in the show aged 27, Mike enjoyed several years of fame before he went into rehab in March 2012 for an addiction to subscription drugs, according to Us magazine. He stayed for a few weeks, and then readmitted himself again in 2015 after a relapse. Since that stint however, he has remained sober.
Mike Sorrentino with the mother of his baby
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A controversial figure, he was indicted for tax fraud in 2014, and pled guilty to one count of tax evasion.
He spent roughly eight months in prison from January 2019 until September 2019. He married his high school love Lauren Pesce in November 2018 and they had their first child Romeo in May 2021.
Since the show, he has landed his own reality television show called the Sorrentinos, which follows he and his family’s life after he shot to fame. He also appeared on Season 11 of dancing with the stars.
According to Celebrity Net Worth, his net worth is around $300,000 (£247k).
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Nicole ‘Snooki’ Polizzi, 34
Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi
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Nicole, better known as Snooki, started the show aged 22, and met her future husband Jionni LaValle in season 3 in a club in 2010.
The pair got engaged in March 2012, before getting married in 2014. They had their first son Lorenzo in 2012 followed by a daughter named Giovanna in 2014, and then a second son called Angelo in May 2019.
She now has her own podcast called “It’s Happening” with Snooki and Joey, which she creates with her co-star and best friend Joey Camasta. The pair discuss current trends, gossip and are visited by celebrity friends.
Vinny Guadagnino, 34
Vinny Guadagnino
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Vinny was 22 when he joined the reality show, and quickly became best friends with Paul “Delvecchio” a friendship which is still strong today. They went on to host a dating show called Double Shot of Love in 2019, which aired for three seasons so far and featured 20 women competing for the attention and affection of both Pauly and Vinny.
In April 2019, Vinny started a residency as a guest dancer at Chippendales in Las Vegas and later revealed he’d lost a ton of weight on the keto diet.
He recently said that he is “very single” but that he meets lots of women whilst stripping in Vegas with the Chippendales.
Jenni ‘JWoww’ Farley, 37
Jenni “JWoww” Farley
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Jenni entered Jersey shore when she was 23, and met future husband Roger Mathews in 2009 at a nightclub. They married in October 2015, had a daughter called Meilani in July 2014, followed by their son Greyson in May 2016. She revealed in November 2018 that Greyson had been diagnosed with autism.
She told Entertainment Tonight that she and her ex-partner co-parent their two children very well, and that they balance each other out.
Jenni also opened The Greyson Mathews Sensory Room at New York City’s indoor arena, the Barclays Center in honor of her son who she revealed had to leave there previously after becoming overly stimulated because of his autism.
Her and her Roger filed for divorce September 2018, and she then began dating wrestler Zack Clayton Caprinello in April 2019. They got engaged in March 2021.
Angelina Pivarnick, 36
Angelina Pivarnock was 23 when she started Jersey Shore, and married Chris Larangeira in November 2019, but filed for divorce in February 2022 citing “irreconcilable differences” which caused a “breakdown of the marriage for a period of at least six months.”
She made headlines this week after admitting on the new season of Jersey Shore: Family Vacation on MTV on Thursday, that she had a fling with fellow reality Acapulco Shore star, Luis ‘Potro’ Caballero whilst he was filming ‘All Star Shore’ in Spain.
Paul ‘DJ Pauly D’ Delvecchio, 41
DJ Paul “Pauly D” DelVecchio
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A show veteran, Paul was 29 when he started Jersey Shore, and now has a child with a woman he had a one-night stand with, Amabella Sophia Markert, who was born in June 2013.
He has been in a relationship with Nikki Hall since 2020.
He is reportedly the richest cast member by some distance, with a net worth estimated at $20 million (£16.5m), partially due to his DJ career. He has also launched clothing and tanning lotion lines.
Ronnie Ortiz-Magro, 36
Ronnie Ortiz-Magro
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Perhaps the most controversial cast member, Ronnie Ortiz-Magro joined the show at 24.
In 2017 his girlfriend Jen Harley became pregnant with their daughter Ariana Sky, who was born in April 2018. The relationship was very rocky and repeatedly made headlines, as they both accused each other of physical abuse.
He also spent a month in a treatment facility for alcohol and depression.
Later in their relationship in 2019, he was charged with seven misdemeanours including domestic violence, child endangerment, false imprisonment and resisting arrest, which he pleaded not guilty to.
However, he was told to stay at least 150 yards from Harley and his daughter. He eventually accepted a plea deal in May 2020, was placed on probation for 36 months, ordered to serve 30 days of community labour and pay $20,000 (£16.5k) to a woman’s shelter.
In June last year he proposed to his girlfriend Saffire Matos, who he remains engaged to.
Samantha ‘Sammi Sweetheart’ Giancola, 35
Known as Sammi Sweetheart, Samantha began her Jersey Shore journey at 22, after a fling with Sorrentino, she got into a relationship with co-star Ronnie Ortiz-Magro. Their messy on and off relationship lasted the whole series, and though they moved in together after the show ended, they then split up.
She began dating Christian Biscardi in April 2017 and he proposed in March 2019, but their wedding, due April 2020 was postponed due to the pandemic. They then split in July 2021, and she is now dating Justin May.
Deena Nicole Cortese, 35
Deena Nicole Cortese
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The latest addition to Jersey Shore, Deena joined in season three though did actually attempt to join the cast in season one, but she was rejected. This was despite close friend and cast member Snooki trying to get her on board.
She married Chris Buckner 2017, and had a son called Christopher in 2019 and a second named Cameron in 2021.
Deena made some headlines when she, Snooki and Jenni Farley to gave a speech for Angelina Pivarnick’s wedding, and made many jokes about Angelina which reportedly made her storm out in anger.
She did defend herself and urged that the speech was not intended to be malicious, but not everybody was convinced.
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