What can we expect from Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi's pal Deena Cortese — who is joining season 3 of MTV's Jersey Shore?
"I bring a lot of energy to the house," she told reporters Friday during a Television Critics Association junket in Los Angeles. "All I want to do is play games and have a good time. I go out, I party, I do my thing. I think everybody would agree — I keep up my part in the house. I clean. I do what I have to do. It is like a family."
So far, she added, "I'm having a blast." When she began shooting last month at the Seaside Heights, NJ, pad, Cortese, 23, said, "I was a little nervous because I was like, 'I don't know what I'm up against.' But all these people are beautiful inside and out. They welcomed me like family and now I consider them like my brothers and sisters. They watch out for me, and watch out for them."
Would she hook up with any of the guys? "Whatever happens, happens," she said. "I think they're all good looking."
She said she is still getting used to being in the public eye.
Earlier in the month, video of her spewing a racial slur hit the web.
"I wasn't expecting that right away," she said. "That video, I literally didn't mean any disrespect to anyone. If I did offend anyone, I apologize. It's just a slang word I said and didn't mean it. I didn't want to offend anyone. It wasn't disrespectful at all."
She said she doesn't mind being in the public eye, though, since shooting the show has been a dream: She said she's spent every summer on the Jersey shore since she was 17 .
"The Jersey Shore is my life," she said. "Like, I go down there every summer. This is what I do always, so when Nicole told me, 'Yo. Come to the house and you live down there.' I was like, 'You know what? I'm so down!'"
Said Paul 'Pauly D' Del Vecchio: "She fit right into the family, so we welcomed her with open arms."
