From the day Jersey Shore premiered — Thursday, December 3, 2009 — to the day Family Vacation takes over the nation — Thursday, April 5, 2018 — the cast, for the most part, has stayed a family. However, with spouses and children now involved, the proud group of guidos have grown quite a bit.
Scroll through Us Weekly’s gallery to hear from each cast member about what’s different this time around. Jersey Shore: Family Vacation premieres on MTV Thursday, April 5, at 8 p.m. ET.
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From the day Jersey Shore premiered — Thursday, December 3, 2009 — to the day Family Vacation takes over the nation — Thursday, April 5, 2018 — the cast, for the most part, has stayed a family. However, with spouses and children now involved, the proud group of guidos have grown quite a bit. Scroll through Us Weekly’s gallery to hear from each cast member about what’s different this time around. Jersey Shore: Family Vacation premieres on MTV Thursday, April 5, at 8 p.m. ET.
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From the day Jersey Shore premiered — Thursday, December 3, 2009 — to the day Family Vacation takes over the nation — Thursday, April 5, 2018 — the cast, for the most part, has stayed a family. However, with spouses and children now involved, the proud group of guidos have grown quite a bit. Scroll through Us Weekly’s gallery to hear from each cast member about what’s different this time around. Jersey Shore: Family Vacation premieres on MTV Thursday, April 5, at 8 p.m. ET.
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Polizzi, 30, struggled being away from husband Jionni LaValle and two kids while filming, but her roommates helped to create the ultimate “mommy getaway” … which included a great amount of alcohol. “I can still drink, but my hangovers are the worst … we were all hungover for weeks,” she says.
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Alcohol-free for 28 months, the self-declared guido, 35, says he loved having his pals’ support as he “re-learned how to have fun sober.” In a longterm relationship with his college sweetheart, Sorrentino also had to learn to party while taken. “The Situation is always in high demand. It's my job to act accordingly and let people know The Sitch is a one-woman man,” he tells Us.
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“I have grown up a lot,” Guadagnino, 30, says, but that didn’t mean he ignored the “crazy” club scene in Miami. “I drank more than I have on any other vacation,” he admits. However, he made sure to take care of his body — a.k.a. GTL — while there. It also helps that now, “the girls love to clean and cook."
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Cortese is married and ready to start a family — but she still held her own in the house. “I still now how to party,” she declares. Formerly known as “the blast in a glass,” the 31-year-old is still her “old meatball self,” but the biggest difference this time was that all the cast mates really had time to miss each other. “We were all just so grateful to have this opportunity together again."
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“We’ll use cabs for life,” Farley, 32, says, adding that the cast never calls a car service or an Uber. However, one thing is definitely different this time around for the married mother of two: At clubs, men are scared off by her “big-ass engagement ring!"
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At 37, Delvecchio says he is in a different mind set this time around. "I’m looking for someone to share my life with now,” the single DJ shares, but that doesn’t mean he didn't frequent the smush room: “Sometimes you have to bring home the wrong ones to find the right one."
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“We drank more in this house than we ever have before,” he says. But on nights out in Miami, the new dad, 32, says when outsiders approached, the entire cast would “weed out the snakes in the grass" to screen for troublemakers.
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