Real NJ Housewife Defends MTV's Jersey Shore
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New Jerseyites unite!
Real Housewives of New Jersey star Caroline Manzo is standing up for the cast of that other reality show set in her home state, MTV's Jersey Shore.
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"They are young kids doing their thing," Manzo told UsMagazine.com of Snooki, "The Situation" and the gang during Wednesday's Bravo Upfronts at New York's Skylight Studios.
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Manzo, a married 50 year-old mom of three, isn't offended by the drunken hot-tub antics on the show, which takes place in Seaside Heights, about 2 hours south of her Franklin Lakes home. "Let them be kids and one day they'll just look at it and realize."
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The Bravo star isn't worried that they give New Jersey a bad name, either. "They are not from Jersey so I don't care," she quipped. (Indeed, the MTV cast hails from Brooklyn, Staten Island and upstate New York.)
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Still, "there are clusters of kids like that," Manzo told Us. "They are not hurting anybody. It's their image -- nobody else's!"
The second season of Real Housewives of New Jersey is set to debut this June.
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6Hello DENELLE?? Stop lumpinf all"italians" together please...get your facts straight and don"t be simple..thx
she says this because if you sent the show her kids are just as bad, they didn't go to college still stay at home don't have real jobs or responsibility
yeah let the girl have fun let her do carwheels n show her butt and vejeje n make a fool of her self n making the noise when she cries ahhhiiii lol!!!
That's because they are trashy like her and her family. Trashy Italian Idiots, all of them.
WHO CARES WHAT THE WOMAN SAYS.
None of them are kids. I believe Mike is 28 yrs old. That's closer to being 30 yrs old than a kid. They are all just idiots with no direction in life.