The Jersey Shore kids will be shooting season four in their motherland (most of their motherland’s, anyway). Yep, they’re going to Italy.

According to MTV.com, while Jersey Shore is a popular program internationally, there are bound to be plenty of people oblivious to “The Situation” and his colorful cronies, as well as the circus of debauchery they bring with them to every locale. Who knows how the OGs of Italy will react to our self-proclaimed guidos and guidettes?
By the way, Vinny’s first generation family is down for the ride. They will be nearby to offer comfort food and some guidance on the cultural ways of “the beautiful country.”

Let’s just hope they don’t get into real trouble that may be handled differently overseas than in America (i.e. Snooki’s public drunkeness arrest).

In case you’re wondering, the Italian word for “grenade” is “granata.” Lastly, “gorilla juice head” in Italian is “gorilla di succo di testa.” (My google translator game for Android is on smash!)

The show begins filming in Spring of 2011 and will air later on this year.

Who’s excited? (*Raises hand)

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In an interview with USA Today, which we posted below, Snooki told the reporter, “I like to read books where I know the background of the story because I get confused when I read a lot.” This is who America gives book deals (she once said she’s only read two books in her life), but I digress.

Snooki’s novel (which was written with a collaborator), A Shore Thing has been released today and she can now add author to her resume. The book is a fictionalized account of two girls’ naughty summertime adventures at the Jersey Shore. Two girls are “coincidentally” reminiscent of Snooki and her partner in crime, Jenni “JWoww” Farley. Check out this video clip below where Snooki goes into more detail.

By the way, Jersey Shore Season 3 premieres on Thursday at 10pm on MTV.

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Snooki will be a huge part of MTV’s NYE celebration.

The Jersey Shore star will be placed inside of the ball that will be lowered into New York’s Time Square to help ring in 2011.

On her big role in MTV’s New Year’s Bash, Snooki told USA Today: “I’m gonna be like a friggin’ hamster. It’s the first time they’ve done it. I’m not sure how it’s going to work, but I think it’ll be fine….and if not, someone is going to be in big trouble!”

Wait. It gets better. While there Snooki will be trying to set a world record of great importance: “The largest gather of people fist pumping.”

Plus, MTV will be using Snooki’s appearance to introduce an extended first look at the upcoming season of Jersey Shore, which premieres January 06.

If I were going to kick off a New Year with a television personality, I’d probably opt for Anderson Cooper, Oprah, and NeNe Leakes, but I guess this works for most.

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One thing we can look forward to in January is more Jersey Shore shenanigans. Season three will return to MTV on January 6 sans Angelina. The new girl is Snooki’s childhood friend Deena. Besides the new chick everything else is still the same. The boys will be on a never ending quest for hook ups but this time they have a grenade whistle to keep them away from women they feel aren’t attractive. The girls will continue to fight–drama, drama, drama. Season two left of with Sammi having tension with Snooki and JWoww and now Deena is on in the action, siding with the latter two. Check out the video below:

You read the title correctly, which probably also means that the world is officially ending soon. Yes. Snooki has a book deal with Gallery  Books, an imprint on Simon and Schuster, despite the fact that she told The New York Times in July that she had only read two books in her life (Twilight and Dear John), which isn’t hard to believe.

The Jersey Shore star will write a novel titled, A Shore Thing, Gallery Books announced Wednesday.

“The book will tell the tale of a girl looking for love on the boardwalk,(one full of big hair, dark tans and fights galore),” said Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster.

Snooki said she’s been working on the novel for a while (like when they gave her the advance–side eye).

“This book will have you falling in love at the shore. It’s a sure thing!” she said in a statement.

Only in America can menial people become rich and famous for having obnoxious personalities and get perks like book, TV and movie deals. Only in America, smh. I admit, I do watch that nonsense on TV. But a book deal? And on Simon and Schuster? Really? That’s just criminal. (But I wonder who the ghost writer will be).

Will you read Snooki’s book?

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Of course you thought it was either Snooki or The Situation! Nope. It’s DJ Pauly D.

After weeks of record-setting ratings for Jersey Shore, MTV is now working on a possible spinoff for Pauly DelVecchio. According to The LA Times, the premise of the project has yet to be decided. However, rumor has it that the series would follow the 28-year-old DJ on gigs around the country (insert fist pump here). It hasn’t been greenlit yet but there’s a strong possibility considering Jersey Shore’s success this season.

According to TV Guide, the most recent episode of Jersey Shore drew 5.9 million viewers on Thursday and beat new broadcast programming like NBC’s The Apprentice, with a 3.1 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic, which is a big deal to TV big wigs.

If the Pauly D show gets picked up it will probably do just well for MTV as he is seen as a second favorite out of the men in the cast (The Situation is number one). In fact, they’re probably going to drain this gravy train until the food runs out. The Situation is busy taping Dancing With The Stars but we surely haven’t seen the last of him and Snooki can’t seem to stay in a relationship so she may get her “Snookin For Love” dating show after all. That could just be my need for a new reality TV fix talking (the more dysfunctional the better) but it’s not a far fetch.

Anywho, what do you think of a Pauly D. spinoff? Would you watch?

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Did you know in some states you can face charges for being annoying?

I didn’t, but go figure I would discover this random law in relation to a reality star.

Indeed, Snooki from the TV sensation (I will not roll my eyes, I repeat, I will not roll my eyes), Jersey Shore, went to court yesterday to face the following charges: Disorderly conduct, creating a public nuisance and being criminally annoying.

These charges all stem from a drunken show Snooki put on in Seaside Heights, N.J., in late July.

The 22-year-old born Nicole Polizzi has pleased not guilty to all charges.

After the incident happened, she did acknowledge that she was drinking tequila for several hours. She was so drunk that she doesn’t even remember being picked up by the po-po while wearing a t-shirt with the word “SLUT” splattered over it.

On these charges she said she was “too pretty to be in jail.”

For those of you worried about how this will affect your TV viewing habits, don’t worry; all she got was a $533 fine and two days of community service after her lawyer talked about her academic career prior to joining Jersey Shore and her love of animals.

Judge Damian Murray did throw shade at Snooki, though – calling her actions “rude and self-indulgent,” and said if her antics were scripted that she needed to decide “if it was worth trading your dignity for a paycheck.”

He called her a “Lindsay wannabe.”

See kids, judges read the blogs, too.

Now question for the readers: If you could charge any reality star with being criminally annoying, who would it be and why?

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But this time it’s not really their fault.

A woman who claims she was assaulted by the Jersey Shore kids’ bodyguards last fall has filed a claim against the entire cast of the show, according to RadarOnline.com. In addition to naming Snooki n’em, the suit also names MTV and its parent company (Viacom), as well as 495 Productions, as defendants. This isn’t the first lawsuit plaguing the show.

The alleged incident took place in September 2009, on the same night cast member Ronnie Magro was filmed punching a man who ended up unconscious. Magro was arrested for aggravated assault. In March, the couple involved in that brawl sued MTV for broadcasting what they claimed was an inaccurate depiction of a heated altercation they got into with Sammi Giancola and Magro. (The couple that sued clearly started it).

Last month, a Chicago-area woman filed suit against MTV, as well as Snooki and Jenni J-Woww, alleging that she was assaulted on camera when the cast and crew were in a Miami nightclub shooting a season two episode.

Clearly, drama follows these people. But as much as they can sometimes have nasty attitudes, people in general are being greedy. In the case of the most recent woman, why sue the cast if the bodyguards are the ones who attacked her?

One thing I’ve discovered from interviewing reality TV “stars” is that as much as they act a fool on camera, people who aren’t on the show can act just as crazy by shouting things at the cast and crew and trying to invade their space with antagonistic behavior. There’s something about being filmed and seeing people get filmed that brings out some folks’ inner bozo. However, when said idiots reap the consequences of their antics, the easiest thing to do is pretend to be the victim and try to milk the situation (no pun intended) for as much money as possible. Sad.

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Deena Nicole Cortese has joined the cast of Jersey Shore. The 23-year-old New Jersey native is a friend of Snooki’s from before the Jersey Shore craze. She actually auditioned for the show in the beginning, but didn’t make it. Now she’ll be replacing Angelina Pivarnick, who will not be returning for season three.

Cortese, had been rumored for months to be joining the series, but it wasn’t officially announced until last Friday. She also gained infamy because of a video that surfaced online where she used the n-word.

A video on TMZ, which was taken as part of a MySpace vlog blog in 2008, shows Cortese ranting about guys that she knows and at one point in the tirade Cortese warns them that she and her female friends are “gonna play you out n****.”

“I wasn’t expecting that right away,” said Cortese in response to the attention over the video blog. “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.”

(Side eye)

The show’s second season is currently airing on MTV and features original cast members. Cortese will be introduced when the show heads back to the shore. So far, her new roommates are fans.

“She fit right in,” Pauly D said. “We’re having fun with her.”

Cortese said she’s spent every summer on the Jersey Shore since she was 17 years old.

She looks like she fits right in–overtanned, Peggy Bundy bump, perfect.

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How far have we gone as a society when a reputable news outlet like The New York Times devotes a whole article—written extremely well, by the way—about why Jersey Shore’s Snooki is so popular. We all have our vices, mine is reality TV, but I was amazed that NYT went there. And the piece was good! Basically, the writer talked to Snooki’s father, hometown friends and even a college TV professor about the public’s baffling obsession with Snooki.

The piece started out with:

FLAKE, cow, loser, slut, idiot, airhead, trash, penguin, creep, moron, midget, freak, Oompa-Loompa, nobody.

Those are just some of several negative adjectives in general used to described the pint-sized self-proclaimed “Guidette” who is actually Chilean, that the public is obsessed with.

It’s another day in the kitchen of Andy Polizzi — volunteer firefighter, auto salvage manager and father of Nicole Polizzi, the 4-foot-9-inch Snooki, yowling star of “Jersey Shore” — and words cannot hurt him. Sticks and stones! After a season of the hit reality show about a bunch of Italian-Americans sharing a beach house, Andy is used to the terrible stuff that people say about his little girl, and if he had to, he looks built enough under his “Papa Snooks” T-shirt to take them down.

He has welcomed a reporter into his home, a ranch in the middle of the ranchlands and big riding-tractor front lawns of Marlboro, N.Y., across the river from Poughkeepsie, amid the orchards and dairy bars off Route 9W. There’s a swimming pool in the backyard stuffed with water toys and surrounded by a chain-link fence. Inside, the house has the snug plenitude of a man who likes his comforts close at hand. He has been divorced 10 years.

But he has to be honest, he said, folding his arms on the kitchen table: He doesn’t understand the public’s fascination with his daughter.

“When we go to venues, I like to stand out in the crowd,” he said. “She’ll be up there hooting and hollering, and I’ll say to someone, ‘What is it that draws you to my daughter? Be honest.’ Because it’s very hard for me to see what it is. She don’t sing. She don’t dance. I don’t want to say she don’t have talent …” He seemed to have his doubts. Then he shrugged. “Everyone basically says they can relate to her. I think Nicole’s just a likeable person.”

Her own father doesn’t understand it. By the way, Snooki is Italian by affiliation. She was born in Chile but adopted by the Polizzi’s at a young age.

The piece goes on to insinuate that Snooki is funny looking, comparing her body to an upside down turnip and bringing up one of The Situation’s early comments about her (“She looks like a spray painted chihuahua”), and mentioning her bad attitude but ironically, Robert J. Thompson, a professor of television and popular culture at Syracuse University has an answer to why people still can’t turn away:

“Everything about this show is super-sized — from the over-the-top hair to the over-the-top nature of the comments,” he said. “ ‘Jersey Shore’ is brilliantly cast and, of course, Snooki is the star. The name doesn’t hurt for a start. And she’s so loud [and] her dialect is ratcheted up 1,000 volts.”

Snooki’s father confirmed to the Times reporter that her loud behavior and attitude are genuine. But wait, it gets worse. An MTV exec went as far as calling her an icon:

“If you were to draw a cartoon of her, you would know immediately who she is,” said Chris Linn, the executive vice president for pilots at MTV. “She’s an icon.”

Wow. The crazy thing is, the TV professor and MTV exec are right. As much as people would hate to call her an icon, she actually is. Women can no longer get away with wearing a bump in their hair without being referenced to Snooki, she has been spoofed on Saturday Night Live (that’s when you know you’ve arrived) and even had some of the women on The View trying to look like her. It’s insane.

The Jersey Shore phenomenon is probably not going to jump the shark any time soon, especially with season two premiering on Thursday.

What do you think about the Snooki craze? Are her negative attributes so outrageous that she’s the break out star? Is she just plain awful or awesomely bad?

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