Sammi “Sweetheart” Giancola lastly signed onto Jersey Shore: Household Trip for its sixth season, the place she crossed paths with ex-boyfriend Ronnie Ortiz-Magro.
“I knew the second I made a decision to return again that there shall be a risk that Ron shall be right here,” Sammi, 36, completely advised Us Weekly on Thursday, August 3. “You already know, he’s a part of the household too. I positively knew that. It was identical to, ‘OK, I can deal with it — no matter comes my method.’”
Us confirmed in March that Sammi — who opted to not seem on the primary 5 seasons of the Jersey Shore spinoff — signed on for season 6. Two months later in Could, the primary clip of season 6 dropped and teased Sammi’s entrance. The footage additionally revealed that her ex Ronnie, 36, deliberate to return again after his 2021 exit. (He beforehand took a step again from the MTV present in mild of his home violence scandal, wherein he was arrested and in the end launched on a $100,000 bond in April 2021.)
“It’s positively nerve-wracking … however I take care of it,” Sammi advised Us on Thursday of reuniting with Ronnie, noting their first Household Trip encounter was caught on digital camera.
Sammi and Ronnie dated on and off between 2009 and 2014 and their tumultuous relationship was captured on six seasons of the OG Jersey Shore. After they referred to as it quits for good, the jewellery designer succinctly advised Us on Thursday that she’s not all for turning into platonic friends.
“I’m good, we will maintain it shifting. We’re coworkers. You’re simply any individual I dated in my 20s. Like, and we will maintain it shifting at that,” Sammi stated. “Lots of people are, like, after I inform them my age now, they’re like, ‘Wait, you dated him whenever you have been 22 and also you’re 36 now?’ Like, loads of time has gone [and] I’ve dated different individuals. I imply, there’s simply loads of life that goes on in between all these years.”
Sammi ‘Sweetheart’ Giancola and Ronnie Ortiz-Magro Erik Pendzich/Shutterstock; Kristina Bumphrey/StarPix/Shutterstock
Sammi — who’s at the moment relationship Justin Could — did notice that she is glad to see Ronnie’s self-improvement develop. “He’s engaged on himself to be a greater particular person, that’s all that issues,” she added.
Whereas Sammi has closed the door on her relationship with Ronnie, Household Trip season 6 was the precise time to reunite with costars Paul “Pauly D” Delvecchio, Vinny Guadagnino, Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi, Jenni “JWOWW” Farley, Angelina Pivarnick, Deena Cortese and Mike “The Scenario” Sorrentino.
“I really feel prefer it was simply the right time to return again now in my life and that’s why I’m right here. I used to be like, I missed everyone. Why not come again?’” she stated on Thursday. “On the time when everyone determined to return again [for Family Vacation], I used to be like, ‘I don’t know if I’m able to put myself in an atmosphere with an ex or attainable poisonous conditions.’ So I used to be like, ‘Let me chorus from doing that. I’m engaged on myself and I’m glad proper now. I’m content material. I don’t have to put myself in an atmosphere that I’m like form of not sure of.’”
Sammi ‘Sweetheart’ Giancola and Ronnie Ortiz-Magro on the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards Matt Baron/BEI/Shutterstock
Sammi added that she made the choice to return again “alone,” however her family members, together with boyfriend Justin, have been her No. 1 cheerleaders. “My household and boyfriend have been tremendous supportive in each side of my life,” she stated. “And I used to be like, ‘OK, I really feel good proper now’ and it was simply my very own resolution that I made.”
Jersey Shore: Household Trip season 6 premieres on MTV Thursday, August 3 at 8 p.m. ET.
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With reporting by Christina Garibaldi
