“Someone’s all the time at odds with any person, you recognize, about one thing. And subsequent factor you recognize, you bought conflict,” says The State of affairs, who additionally reveals who introduced essentially the most drama, teases the forged’s journey to Jamaica, and weighs in on the chance that followers will see Ron and Sam making peace as soon as and for all.
In line with Mike “The State of affairs” Sorrentino, in Season 8 of Jersey Shore Household Trip — which marks the fifteenth anniversary of the sequence — the forged will discover themselves in fairly a, nicely, state of affairs.
In an interview with TooFab, the truth star teased what followers can count on to see from the brand new season, wherein he 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 OG shore home in Seaside Heights, New Jersey.

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“I imply, to say that this season is a ten, this season is a ten,” Mike mentioned when requested to fee the season from one to 10 — ten being essentially the most chaotic and dysfunctional. “What’s nice is you get to see how we navigate by way of it, you recognize, and likewise to say that we have now a state of affairs. We certainly have a state of affairs this season, for positive.”
The 42-year-old named himself because the peacekeeper of Season 8, and defined why.
“I believe that I all the time attempt to hold the peace,” Mike mentioned. “You already know, I am all the time doing the sit-downs. You already know, I am all the time making an attempt to be the glue to this household, and see how we are able to push this household downstream in order that we are able to make extra reminiscences, and make this present final, as a result of if persons are simply at odds with one another, you recognize, you simply by no means know. Someone would possibly stop. Simply to be sincere with you. These guys are very unpredictable.”
As for who followers can count on to see beginning essentially the most drama, Mike named Angelina, however famous that “typically folks say it is me.” He then added, “However in the event you do not stir the pot, sauce is gonna burn, proper?”
The daddy of three famous that there’s a “superb line” between sustaining the peace in the home and calling his associates out on their conduct.
“It’s a superb line to be holding the peace to additionally declaring one thing that could be misplaced, and I am very well-known for pointing issues which might be kind of out of the place,” Miike advised TooFab. “I’ve a nickname referred to as the Investigation, and every so often, we bought to deliver out the boards.”
As proven within the epic trailer for Jersey Shore Household Trip Season 8, the crew took a bunch journey to Jamaica — and based on Mike, the journey introduced its fair proportion of drama, to no shock.
“It is undoubtedly a great present, you recognize?” he mentioned. “There is not any quick[age] of drama, let’s consider, yeah. And once more, the forged, though they’re household, any person’s all the time at odds with any person, you recognize, about one thing. And subsequent factor you recognize, you bought conflict, and so and so is doing this, and so and so is quitting. It is simply, it is actually loopy. I actually cannot inform you guys an excessive amount of.”
“However I do say that after we go in a foreign country, issues begin to go sideways,” he added.

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As followers know, Mike discovered himself entangled with authorized troubles prior to now, and served eight months in jail for tax evasion in 2019. Within the wake of his costs, he was beforehand compelled to give up his passport, and final 12 months, he was lastly permitted to journey internationally, with him and his spouse, Lauren Sorrentino, taking the chance to make a journey to Italy.
And as proven within the new season, Mike and his Jersey Shore crew had been in a position to make a journey collectively abroad for the primary time.
“We have not been in a position to journey in a foreign country for about you recognize, no less than a decade, as a result of Uncle Sam had taken away my passport,” he advised TooFab. “You already know, we had a bit little bit of a state of affairs, issues budgeting, and so forth. So we solved these conditions, and we bought the passport again. And now we’re in a position to journey freely by way of the cabin.”

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Mike additionally weighed in on one other thrilling second teased within the trailer: Exes Ronnie and Sammi presumably making peace as soon as and for all.
“Hear, I am a fan on the subject of the present, and a few of the forged members, so [the] dynamic between Ron and Sam has been fairly particular to be sincere with you,” he shared. “It is really a sight to see, a sight to behold, as a result of we by no means thought they might even be beneath the identical roof.”
“And now, for this season, you see a few of these interactions. You are like, ‘Oh, we bought a state of affairs!’ You already know? So that you guys are gonna need to test it out,” he added. “I am very, very pleased with each of them. You already know, due to how far we have come and the story that we do have, and it is our fifteenth anniversary. So it is fairly cool to see.”
The trailer for Season 8 additionally revealed Mike rocking a brand new coiffure — and getting jokingly grilled by his associates, who deliver up a rumor that he bought “hair plugs.”
“Nicely, you recognize, plainly I’ve a enterprise within the entrance and celebration within the again proper now,” he mentioned when TooFab introduced up the second. “However hear, a gentleman by no means tells. You already know I can’t verify or deny, however shout out to my physician, Dr. Mike in Tinton Falls, New Jersey. Wonderful man.”
“I all the time attempt to, you recognize, deliver one thing new each season, whether or not it is a haircut or a brand new challenge that I am engaged on. You are solely nearly as good as your final present,” he added. “And, boy, have we had some superb reveals now that being our fifteenth anniversary.”
Jersey Shore Household Trip premieres Thursday, Could twenty ninth at 8 p.m. ET/PT on MTV.
