Jersey Shore’s Sammi ‘Sweetheart’ Giancola and Ronnie Ortiz-Magro‘s Relationship Timeline: From the Infamous Note to Their Dramatic Breakup

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Jersey Shore's Sammi ‘Sweetheart’ Giancola and Ronnie Ortiz-Magro‘s Relationship Timeline: From the Infamous Note to Their Dramatic Breakup

Sammi "Sweetheart" Giancola and Ronnie Ortiz-Magro’s tumultuous relationship was one of the biggest storylines throughout the original MTV series. While Sammi was originally flirting with Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino in the 2009 premiere, she ultimately found a connection with Ronnie. The duo began dating in season 1, leaving the shore house as a couple at the end of their trip. It wasn’t until the January 2010 reunion that they broke up for the first time — live on camera. Throughout the rest of the series, Sammi and Ronnie continued to break things off and get back together. However, during the Jersey Shore series finale in 2012, the reality stars left the show together with plans to move in together and settle down. Less than two years later, Ronnie confirmed that he and the New Jersey native called it quits for good. Following their split, Sammi got engaged to longtime boyfriend Christian Biscardi in 2020. In July 2021, she revealed that she was single. She later moved on with her current partner, Justin May. [sendtonews type="float" key="V4yrTd16EJ-2829902-14453"] Ronnie, for his part, dated Jen Harley on and off from 2017 to 2019, with the couple welcoming daughter Ariana in 2018. Following their rocky romance, he moved on with Saffire Matos in 2020 but the twosome called it quits two years later. In April 2021, Ronnie was arrested for domestic violence in Los Angeles and later released on $100,000 bond. Keep scrolling to relive Sammi and Ronnie’s romance: If you or someone you know are experiencing domestic violence, please call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233 for confidential support.

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Jersey Shore's Sammi ‘Sweetheart’ Giancola and Ronnie Ortiz-Magro‘s Relationship Timeline: From the Infamous Note to Their Dramatic Breakup

Sammi "Sweetheart" Giancola and Ronnie Ortiz-Magro’s tumultuous relationship was one of the biggest storylines throughout the original MTV series. While Sammi was originally flirting with Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino in the 2009 premiere, she ultimately found a connection with Ronnie. The duo began dating in season 1, leaving the shore house as a couple at the end of their trip. It wasn’t until the January 2010 reunion that they broke up for the first time — live on camera. Throughout the rest of the series, Sammi and Ronnie continued to break things off and get back together. However, during the Jersey Shore series finale in 2012, the reality stars left the show together with plans to move in together and settle down. Less than two years later, Ronnie confirmed that he and the New Jersey native called it quits for good. Following their split, Sammi got engaged to longtime boyfriend Christian Biscardi in 2020. In July 2021, she revealed that she was single. She later moved on with her current partner, Justin May. [sendtonews type="float" key="V4yrTd16EJ-2829902-14453"] Ronnie, for his part, dated Jen Harley on and off from 2017 to 2019, with the couple welcoming daughter Ariana in 2018. Following their rocky romance, he moved on with Saffire Matos in 2020 but the twosome called it quits two years later. In April 2021, Ronnie was arrested for domestic violence in Los Angeles and later released on $100,000 bond. Keep scrolling to relive Sammi and Ronnie’s romance: If you or someone you know are experiencing domestic violence, please call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233 for confidential support.

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2009

The pair started dating in the inaugural season of the MTV series and found themselves in a love triangle with Mike. While the New York native attempted to interfere in Sammi’s relationship with Ronnie numerous times, she made it clear she was only interested in Ronnie.

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January 2010

After they dated for the entirety of season 1, Sammi and Ronnie called it quits for the first time during the live reunion special. A clip was shown of Sammi confiding to Mike about how she flirted with a police officer after she saw Ronnie dance with another woman at a nightclub. Mike told Sammi Ronnie wasn’t worth the trouble and gave her a small kiss.

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April 2010

After not speaking since their on-camera breakup, Ronnie returned to the show single. However, the then-couple got back together right away. After a wild night out with the roomies, JWoww and Snooki decided to intervene and anonymously wrote the infamous note that called out Ronnie’s bad behavior at the club where he "made out with two girls and put his head in between a cocktail waitress' breasts." Sammi took Ronnie’s side and tension between the women began to brew.

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2011

Despite making up, the pair continued to fight in season 3 which led to several physical altercations between them. In one instance, Sammi punched Ronnie in the face after he reconciled with JWoww over the note incident. 

In another episode that same season, Ronnie destroyed Sammi's belongings which led them to break up for a second time. Sammi left the shore after the argument but eventually returned. Though she almost rekindled her romance with Ronnie at the time, Sammi confessed she previously hooked up with a friend of Mike’s before she was with the Bronx native.

In season 4, the reality stars jetted off to Italy, where Ronnie and Sammi continued to get back together and break up multiple times.

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December 2012

On the series finale of Jersey Shore, Sammi and Ronnie decided to leave the show as a couple with the hopes of moving in together in the future.

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August 2014

Ronnie exclusively told Us that he and Sammi split for good. “Me and Sammi aren’t together anymore,” he said to Us at the time. “We just grew our separate ways. She’s still a great person. I love her as a person and I care about her but we went our separate ways. That’s it.”

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2018

Four years after the reality show ended, the Jersey Shore cast reunited for a new series, Jersey Shore Family Vacation — without Sammi. A source exclusively told Us at the time that a “big reason” for her decision was because “she didn’t want to be around Ronnie.”

She further explained her decision not to return in a lengthy Instagram March Instagram statement. “I am at a completely different place in my life right now focusing on my businesses and relationship,” Sammi wrote at the time. “I am not the same person as I was when I was 22. At 31, I am currently extremely happy in every aspect of my life and want to avoid potentially TOXIC SITUATIONS.”

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March 2023

Five years later, Sammi announced she was joining the upcoming season of the Jersey Shore reboot. “OK, I can finally say… I’m backkk! ☺️,” she captioned a selfie from the set.

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April 2023

Ronnie — who took a break from filming the spinoff due to his mental health — was reportedly spotted filming the series after news broke that his ex-girlfriend was making a comeback.

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August 2023

Sammi exclusively told Us that it was “nerve-wracking” to reunite onscreen with Ronnie on Family Vacation. “I knew the moment I decided to come back that there will be a possibility that Ron will be here,” she explained. “You know, he’s part of the family too. I definitely knew that. It was just like, ‘OK, I can handle it — whatever comes my way.’”

Sammi went on to note that she hopes they will continue to build a better relationship as friends. “We’re coworkers. You’re just somebody I dates in my 20s. Like, and we can keep it moving at that,” she shared. “A lot of people are, like, when I tell them my age now, they’re like, ‘Wait, you dated him when you were 22 and you’re 36 now?’ Like, a lot of time has gone [and] I’ve dated other people. I mean, there’s just a lot of life that goes on in between all those years.”

At the end of the day, Sammi is glad to see her ex continue his journey of self-improvement. “He’s working on himself to be a better person, that’s all that matters,” she told Us.