Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi says a Jersey Shore producer advised police to arrest her on the seaside for public intoxication whereas cameras rolled in the summertime of 2010.
Polizzi, 36, recalled the notorious second on the Wednesday, August 28, episode of the podcast “Therapuss with Jake Shane,” saying that she had “began to black out when the cops had been handcuffing me,” and shared a “little secret” from behind the scenes of the hit MTV actuality collection, which aired from 2009 to 2012.
“These cops weren’t on shift for the city,” Polizzi advised host Jake Shane. “They had been on shift from manufacturing to ensure they’re defending us from loopy individuals. … So I don’t even assume it’s authorized as a result of they weren’t working for the city, however I watched the video again and one of many producers stated, ‘Simply arrest her.’”
On July 30, 2010, Polizzi was arrested and booked in Seaside Heights, New Jersey, for disturbing the peace, disorderly conduct and felony annoyance. That September, expenses had been dropped and she or he was fined $500 and ordered her to do two days of group service.
MTV shook up actuality TV — and launched followers to the GTL life-style (a.okay.a. gymnasium, tan, laundry) — in 2009 with the premiere of Jersey Shore. The collection rapidly made family names out of stars Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi, Vinny Guadagnino, Jenni “JWoww” Farley, Angelina Pivarnick, Paul “DJ Pauly D” Delvecchio, Ronnie Ortiz-Magro, Samantha “Sammi Sweetheart” […]
Months later, MTV aired the drama in an episode of Jersey Shore known as “The place’s the Seaside?” during which Polizzi drank by way of her work shift on the Shore Retailer following an evening of partying together with her castmates.
“I awakened that day and I used to be ingesting nonstop,” Polizzi stated on “Therapuss.” “So you already know if you get up and you are feeling just like the shakes are coming? You’re like, ‘I’m going to s—t, I’m going to throw up, however I’ve to be on digital camera and I’ve to go [to] this shift,’ so I awakened nonetheless in my get together gown with my blanket on strolling to my shift.”
Her boss, Danny Merk, had advised her, “Oh, you’re late, you’re going to get fired.”
When she reported to her job, she consumed 4 Loko, a Lengthy Island Iced Tea and a beer, which she chugged to chase away “the shakes.”
When Jersey Shore premiered on MTV in 2009, viewers acquired to observe the private lives of eight housemates from New Jersey — and lots of followers are nonetheless maintaining with the group. Sammi “Sweetheart” Giancola and Ronnie Ortiz-Magro‘s on and off relationship rapidly grew to become a largestory line as they tried to make issues work. Following […]
“I used to be like ‘I can’t do that,’” she recalled. “In order that’s once I ran. I simply ran to the bar. I took pictures simply to start out feeling higher after which I simply didn’t cease. I felt good, I used to be like, ‘I’m not going to return to work. I used to be assembly all these random individuals. I believe I made out with an outdated man. … It was a nightmare, however I had a good time.”
She continued, “I knew the seaside was proper there, however my drunk self was like, ‘How do I get on the seaside?’ … As a result of there’s solely a specific amount of entries to get on the seaside. I couldn’t discover them anyplace, so I used to be like, ‘The place’s the seaside? How do I get on the seaside?’ And the man’s like, ‘Proper there,’ and I’m like, ‘I do know, moron. How do I get on the seaside?’”
Flash-forward 14 years: Polizzi is mother to son Lorenzo, 11, daughter Giovanna, 9, and son Angelo, 4, with husband Jionni LaValle, whom she met whereas filming Jersey Shore in 2012. The couple married two years later. She presently seems on the spinoff Jersey Shore: Household Trip.
