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 collection, Jersey Shore Household Trip, the truth star is trying 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 need to tune in 15 years after they first discovered all about GTL, fist-pumping, and guidos.

Jersey Shore first premiered in December 2009, and ran for six seasons. Practically six years later, Mike and (most of) the crew reunited for Jersey Shore Household Trip, which premiered in 2018. Season 8 of the spinoff collection — which premieres on Jerzday, Thursday, Might 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 recognize, I am a giant fan of the present, and all of my castmates. They’re brothers and sisters to me. However pay attention, every certainly one of ’em, they’re family names. They’ve tens of millions 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, wherein why our present has been so relatable to the viewer and to the followers, and so they’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 need to see after 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 recognize, ‘How’s Lauren?’ and ‘How’s the children?’ And it is so, so very particular,” he instructed TooFab. “It is undoubtedly a once-in-a-lifetime kind of present, and I am very blessed to be concerned.”

“I assume it is a reward for, you recognize, being authentically ourselves and in addition 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 can be experiencing some deja vu.

“I imply, you are simply tremendous grateful. You’ll be able to’t imagine that you just’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 recognize? 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 your pals who are actually just about household, doing, like, ‘Have a look at us. Have a look at us. Look, look what we did.’ You recognize?””

“And the story continues. It is a tremendous story, and I am very, very blessed to be part of it,” he added. “So you recognize, 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 many who could also be questioning, sure, the long-lasting duck cellphone is nonetheless there — together with a number of different Jersey Shore memorabilia, together with the well-known observe 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 observe, you recognize, the neck brace and the sun shades, you recognize. Jersey Shore has had a giant half in tradition and actuality TV, and you recognize, we’ve got 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 recognize, the highschool courses to look at the outdated or the unique Jersey Shore, after which whenever you go to varsity, you’ve the observe in your lobby, you recognize what I imply? On a sheet,” he stated. “And also you see it all over the place. You recognize, 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 probably the most through the years, Mike named himself.

“Large 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 recognize, I am opening up my very own remedy facilities this 12 months referred to as the Archangel Facilities. You recognize, I had this bestselling autobiography, which was killing the sport the previous 12 months. So, it has been fairly a trip.”

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

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

“My life story is now different individuals’s survival information,” he defined. “And I really feel like I discovered, you recognize, my manner in life, and others can too. If Mike The Scenario 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 children watch it someday.

“I believe that I am going to most likely let my youngsters watch the present, Jersey Shore Household Trip, after they flip 16 or 18, which is the Household Trip collection,” he instructed TooFab. “Because it pertains to perhaps the uncensored Jersey Shore model, perhaps they gotta flip 21 for that.”

“As you guys all know, Large Daddy Sitch may be very pleased 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 bigger than the setback. I am a sober legend within the streets.”

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

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