With the season finale of Jersey Shore garnering 4.8 million viewers (MTV’s highest rated show ever) the bags of breast implants and tanning oil known as its cast have enough bargaining power that they’ve rejected MTv’s initial salary offer of $5,000 an episode for the second season. MTV has reportedly capitulated and issued a second offer of $10,000 an episode (and a $10,000 signing bonus) but the cast has not yet accepted the offer.
The cast is under a contractual obligation to provide MTV with a second season, so they don’t really have the right to negotiate, but they’ve never been ones to let nasty little things like laws get in their way.
The show’s ridiculously high ratings give them a pretty big stick to hit MTV execs over the head with. But there are also (unfortunately) thousands of other Jersey juice heads aspiring to the poof crown and MTV wouldn’t have a hard time replacing them.
Personally, I’d have no problem with a completely new cast, if only so I can eventually use the word “situation” again without throwing up in my mouth a little every time I say it.
They should give a cut to the guy who punched that bimbo. Bitch slappin’ = ratings.
who the F watches this crap?
they aren’t even really from new jersey. they are new yorkers. giving a bad name to NJ…
They’re not all New Yorkers…I think only 1 or 2.
Most of my friends watch this show. I don’t know they are my friends.
I’m fucking addicted to this show. It’s tackiness on steroids (hehe see what I did there??), it’s surreal, it’s stupidly fun to watch and I must admit I sit there and just let my jaw drop when Ronnie D says something as “my goal in life is to open my own UV parlour”. I don’t watch it because I can relate to them – my life couldn’t be any more different to theirs, I just watch it because it’s mystifying.
I understand why Italian Americans or just Americans in general feel ashamed, but believe me – there are people like them in every single country of the world; just google “chavs” for England, “racaille” for France or “canis” for Spain, just to name a few.
it wouldn’t be the same with a new cast.. I HATE MYSELF FOR WATCHING THIS SHOW
i vote for a new cast. i love these guys – no, i really hate hate hate them but they’re so horribly amusing – but they’re such terrible excuses for human beings, and so goddamn annoying and cocky, and they so much represent all that i hate in this world, that i really don’t want to see them get that much moolah. if i dye my skin orange and get fake boobs, can i get 10k an episode too?
and imagine what they’d spend it on – multiple personal tanning beds and a lifetime supply of hair gel, probably.