Mike Sorrentino Talks Jersey Shore’s Legacy on fifteenth Anniversary

Now, as Mike and his co-stars — Pauly “DJ Pauly D” Delvecchio, Vinny Guadagnino, Angelina Pivarnick, Jenni “JWoww” Farley, Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi, Deena Nicole Cortese, Samantha “Sammi Sweetheart” Giancola and Ronnie Ortiz-Magro — return to the place all of it started in Seaside Heights, New Jersey for Season 8 of the present’s reunion sequence, Jersey Shore Household Trip, the fact star is wanting again at his journey on the franchise and reflecting on its legacy.

In an interview with TooFab, Mike, 42, opened up about what he believes makes followers nonetheless wish to tune in 15 years after they first realized all about GTL, fist-pumping, and guidos.

Jersey Shore first premiered in December 2009, and ran for six seasons. Almost six years later, Mike and (most of) the crew reunited for Jersey Shore Household Trip, which premiered in 2018. Season 8 of the spinoff sequence — which premieres on Jerzday, Thursday, Could 29 —  marks the fifteenth anniversary and general season of the present.

When requested what he believes is the present’s “secret sauce,” Mike stated, “I believe that, you realize, I am an enormous fan of the present, and all of my castmates. They’re brothers and sisters to me. However pay attention, each considered one of ’em, they’re family names. They’ve hundreds of thousands of followers on each platform. I really feel like we’re collectively, lightning in a bottle, the Avengers of actuality TV, however extra in order that I really feel like authenticity has been key, unapologetically ourselves always, through which why our present has been so relatable to the viewer and to the followers, they usually’ve grown up with us and we’re like brothers and sisters.”

Mike — who shares Romeo, 3, Mia, 2, and Luna, 13 months, with spouse Lauren Sorrentino — famous how he will get approached by loving followers when he goes out in public.

“You must see once I go for, like, a CVS run. Persons are coming as much as me like I am their brother or their son or their uncle, hugs, and, you realize, ‘How’s Lauren?’ and ‘How’s the youngsters?’ And it is so, so very particular,” he advised TooFab. “It is positively a once-in-a-lifetime kind of present, and I am very blessed to be concerned.”

“I assume it is a reward for, you realize, being authentically ourselves and likewise being so relatable and sharing our lives with America for thus lengthy,” he added.

For the brand new season of Jersey Shore Household Trip, followers will see Mike and the gang going again to the OG shore home in Seaside Heights — and it seems many viewers will probably be experiencing some deja vu.

“I imply, you are simply tremendous grateful. You’ll be able to’t imagine that you simply’re on this trip and it has lasted 15 years, and that the general public and followers have grown up with you,” Mike shared. “It is kind of like a pinch-me second, you realize? And now you are again within the shore home. It smells the identical, it appears to be like the identical. And also you’re simply taking a look at your mates who at the moment are just about household, doing, like, ‘Take a look at us. Take a look at us. Look, look what we did.’ You understand?””

“And the story continues. It is an incredible story, and I am very, very blessed to be part of it,” he added. “So you realize, Seaside has a really particular place in our coronary heart, and really glad that we celebrated our fifteenth anniversary there, and we closed out this season over there as properly.”

And for individuals who could also be questioning, sure, the enduring duck cellphone is nonetheless there — together with a number of different Jersey Shore memorabilia, together with the well-known word Snooki and JWoww wrote to Sammi to disclose Ronnie had allegedly cheated on her.

“The duck cellphone is there and it’s intact,” Mike stated. “It is part of tradition at this second. Together with the word, you realize, the neck brace and the sun shades, you realize. Jersey Shore has had an enormous half in tradition and actuality TV, and you realize, we’ve fairly the story.”

Mike described the present as a “ceremony of passage,” noting that it has tagged together with followers as they’ve grown up — and has gained new viewers alongside the way in which.

“It is for, you realize, the highschool courses to look at the previous or the unique Jersey Shore, after which while you go to varsity, you will have the word in your lobby, you realize what I imply? On a sheet,” he stated. “And also you see it all over the place. You understand, it is so loopy what this present became. And now, that is the fifteenth anniversary. So for followers, who’ve grown up with us and new followers, they love us and we love them too.”

As for who he believes has modified essentially the most through the years, Mike named himself.

“Massive Daddy Sitch has had fairly the journey,” he stated. “I am now 10 years clear and sober. I am 10 years this 12 months, and a loyal, devoted husband, dad of three. You understand, I am opening up my very own therapy facilities this 12 months known as the Archangel Facilities. You understand, I had this bestselling autobiography, which was killing the sport the previous 12 months. So, it has been fairly a trip.”

“I might positively suppose I might vote myself solely due to the, you realize, the sobriety journey,” Mike continued. “I used to be most likely one of many wildest forged members … to now [being on] this wonderful sober journey that I am on to be the mature good good friend that I’m to my roommates.”

The Actuality Examine writer stated he is “turned my ache into objective,” including that his story “has helped others.”

“My life story is now different folks’s survival information,” he defined. “And I really feel like I discovered, you realize, my method in life, and others can too. If Mike The State of affairs can do it, and be 10 years clear and sober, so are you able to.”

Mike went on to open up about how he’ll see the present 15 years from now, and shared whether or not he’ll let his youngsters watch it someday.

“I believe that I will most likely let my kids watch the present, Jersey Shore Household Trip, after they flip 16 or 18, which is the Household Trip sequence,” he advised TooFab. “Because it pertains to possibly the uncensored Jersey Shore model, possibly they gotta flip 21 for that.”

“As you guys all know, Massive Daddy Sitch could be very happy with his story, as I am now 10 years clear and sober, my rise and fall and rise once more is the instance,” he continued. “And the epitome of the comeback is larger than the setback. I am a sober legend within the streets.”

“So, I am very proud that, you realize, my kids have, you realize, an excellent instance to develop as much as or no matter,” he continued. “And once more, you realize, in case you guys do not know, Massive Daddy Sitch has an autobiography within the streets, Actuality Examine: How I Overcame Habit, Loss, and Jail in all kinds. And we bought seven figures for the 12 months in product sales, and we self-published. So everybody loves a great comeback story.”

Jersey Shore Household Trip premieres Thursday, Could twenty ninth at 8 p.m. ET/PT on MTV.