Aye! Oh! The kids from Jersey Shore have signed on for a second season of drunken outbursts at the beach, MTV president of programming, Tony DiSanto, said Friday. MTV has renewed Jersey Shore for 12 episodes that will begin airing this summer.
All six housemates — including fan favorites Paul “DJ Pauly D” DelVecchio, Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi, Michael “The Situation” Sorrentino — have signed on for second season of the controversial reality smash that has become a phenomenon. The show followed the over-the-top cast of twenty-somethings as they spent a summer in Seaside Heights, New Jersey’s famous beachside getaway as they fought and flirted with one another — and everyone else in a 30 mile vicinity.
“Our audience has fallen in love with ‘Jersey Shore’ and its amazing cast who have really grown together as a family,” DiSanto said in a statement. “That bond gives the show its heart, and we’re thrilled to reunite these friends.”
The next season of the Shore won’t follow the gang back to their old beach house in Seaside Heights, DiSanto said. According to a statement from MTV, the group will “escape the cold northeast and find themselves in a new destination.”
Earlier this week, a New York Post report claimed the cast banded together — after earning earning just a few hundred dollars per episode during the first season — and requested $10,000 per episode for the second Jersey Shore season.
MTV didn’t disclose the financial terms of the agreement.