MTV’s “Jersey Shore” Star Mike The Situation once threaten to leave the series and it was for a good reason!$
It was revealed that the cast wasn’t always getting fair pay being on the show.
Mike shared:
“The whole cast was in New York City, and we were just on a high from Jersey Shore and the ratings of the first season,” he told Entertainment Tonight.
“We were all in a room, and I guess the MTV lawyers … handed out contracts, and the contracts were the same … from the year before, [which] was a couple thousand dollars for the season, for the whole season, and we worked at the T-shirt shop.
Once they handed me that contract, I just looked at it, and I just knew something wasn’t right. I knew that we had created a TV show that was groundbreaking; it was new, it was fresh, and I didn’t think that it could be duplicated.”
Mike further shared that the network executives instructed him to “sign on the dotted line” or risk being replaced. “And in that moment in my life, I felt, I don’t know, I felt like I knew my worth, and I took the chance, and I said, ‘Go ahead and try to replace me,’ and I walked out the room.”
Now he’s making great money with the show thanks to him standing up for hisself!
The #1 cable series on Thursday nights, MTV’s Jersey Shore Family Vacation will return for its epic seventh season on Thursday, February 8th at 8 p.m. ET/PT on MTV.
Following last season’s shocking return of OG fan favorite Sammi “Sweetheart” Giancola, the infamous exes will finally reunite when Ronnie Ortiz-Magro joins the “Shore” family trip in Nashville. But the legendary family vacation doesn’t stop there, with the Mayor of Atlantic City honoring the gang, “MVP” trying to find zen in Tucson, and the group returning to where it all started, Seaside Heights. This season of Jersey Shore Family Vacation will bring shocking revelations, explosive confrontations, and reunions years in the making.
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