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 began in Seaside Heights, New Jersey for Season 8 of the current’s reunion assortment, Jersey Shore Family Journey, the reality star is wanting once more 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 want to tune in 15 years after they first found all about GTL, fist-pumping, and guidos.

Jersey Shore first premiered in December 2009, and ran for six seasons. Virtually six years later, Mike and (most of) the crew reunited for Jersey Shore Family Journey, which premiered in 2018. Season 8 of the spinoff assortment — which premieres on Jerzday, Thursday, May 29 —  marks the fifteenth anniversary and common season of the current.

When requested what he believes is the current’s “secret sauce,” Mike talked about, “I really feel that, you perceive, I’m an infinite fan of the current, and all of my castmates. They’re brothers and sisters to me. Nevertheless hear, every actually one in all ’em, they’re household names. They’ve tens of hundreds of thousands of followers on every platform. I actually really feel like we’re collectively, lightning in a bottle, the Avengers of actuality TV, nevertheless additional so that I actually really feel like authenticity has been key, unapologetically ourselves all the time, whereby why our current has been so relatable to the viewer and to the followers, and they also’ve grown up with us and we’re like brothers and sisters.”

Mike — who shares Romeo, 3, Mia, 2, and Luna, 13 months, with partner Lauren Sorrentino — well-known how he’ll get approached by loving followers when he goes out in public.

“It’s best to see as soon as I’m going for, like, a CVS run. Individuals are coming as a lot as me like I’m their brother or their son or their uncle, hugs, and, you perceive, ‘How’s Lauren?’ and ‘How’s the children?’ And it’s so, so very specific,” he suggested TooFab. “It’s positively a once-in-a-lifetime type of current, and I’m very blessed to be involved.”

“I assume it’s a reward for, you perceive, being authentically ourselves and likewise being so relatable and sharing our lives with America for thus prolonged,” he added.

For the model new season of Jersey Shore Family Journey, followers will see Mike and the gang going once more to the OG shore dwelling in Seaside Heights — and it appears many viewers will possible be experiencing some deja vu.

“I indicate, you might be merely great grateful. You probably can’t think about that you just’re on this journey and it has lasted 15 years, and that most of the people and followers have grown up with you,” Mike shared. “It’s kind of like a pinch-me second, you perceive? And now you might be once more throughout the shore dwelling. It smells the similar, it appears the similar. And likewise you’re merely looking at your mates who for the time being are nearly family, doing, like, ‘Take a look at us. Take a look at us. Look, look what we did.’ You acknowledge?””

“And the story continues. It’s an unbelievable story, and I’m very, very blessed to be a part of it,” he added. “So that you perceive, Seaside has a very specific place in our coronary coronary heart, and actually glad that we celebrated our fifteenth anniversary there, and we closed out this season over there as successfully.”

And for a lot of who may be questioning, positive, the enduring duck phone is nonetheless there — along with a few totally different Jersey Shore memorabilia, along with the well-known remember Snooki and JWoww wrote to Sammi to reveal Ronnie had allegedly cheated on her.

“The duck phone is there and it’s intact,” Mike talked about. “It’s a part of custom at this second. Along with the remember, you perceive, the neck brace and the sunglasses, you perceive. Jersey Shore has had an infinite half in custom and actuality TV, and also you perceive, now we’ve got pretty the story.”

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

“It’s for, you perceive, the highschool classes to take a look at the earlier or the distinctive Jersey Shore, after which when you go to varsity, you could have the remember in your foyer, you perceive what I indicate? On a sheet,” he talked about. “And likewise you see it everywhere. You acknowledge, it’s so crazy what this current turned. And now, that’s 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 most likely probably the most by means of the years, Mike named himself.

“Large Daddy Sitch has had pretty the journey,” he talked about. “I’m now 10 years clear and sober. I’m 10 years this yr, and a loyal, devoted husband, dad of three. You acknowledge, I’m opening up my very personal remedy services this yr referred to as the Archangel Amenities. You acknowledge, I had this bestselling autobiography, which was killing the game the earlier 12 months. So, it has been pretty a journey.”

“I’d positively suppose I’d vote myself solely because of the, you perceive, the sobriety journey,” Mike continued. “I was possibly one in all many wildest strong members … to now [being on] this glorious sober journey that I’m on to be the mature good good buddy that I’m to my roommates.”

The Actuality Take a look at author talked about he’s “turned my ache into goal,” together with that his story “has helped others.”

“My life story is now totally different of us’s survival data,” he outlined. “And I actually really feel like I found, you perceive, my strategy in life, and others can too. If Mike The State of affairs can do it, and be 10 years clear and sober, so can you.”

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

“I really feel that I’m going to possibly let my youngsters watch the current, Jersey Shore Family Journey, after they flip 16 or 18, which is the Family Journey assortment,” he suggested TooFab. “As a result of it pertains to probably the uncensored Jersey Shore mannequin, probably they gotta flip 21 for that.”

“As you guys all know, Large Daddy Sitch could possibly be very happy together with his story, as I’m now 10 years clear and sober, my rise and fall and rise as soon as extra is the occasion,” he continued. “And the epitome of the comeback is bigger than the setback. I’m a sober legend throughout the streets.”

“So, I’m very proud that, you perceive, my youngsters have, you perceive, a superb occasion to develop as a lot as or irrespective of,” he continued. “And as soon as extra, you perceive, within the occasion you guys have no idea, Large Daddy Sitch has an autobiography throughout the streets, Actuality Take a look at: How I Overcame Behavior, Loss, and Jail in all varieties. And we provided seven figures for the yr in product gross sales, and we self-published. So everyone loves a superb comeback story.”

Jersey Shore Family Journey premieres Thursday, May twenty ninth at 8 p.m. ET/PT on MTV.