Ay! Oh! Snooki may not have found true love at the Jersey Shore, but heavily-trafficked social networking site Facebook.com proved a worthy matchmaker for the pint-sized Princess of Poughkeepsie. That’s where the MTV reality personality met her new man, Gold’s Gym personal trainer and bodybuilder Emilio Antonio Masella, 21.
In an exclusive chat with PEOPLE Magazine, the New Haven, Connecticut native reveals that the lovebirds met online several months before Snooks found fame for falling down drunk at bars all over Seaside Heights. “We met on Facebook over a year ago,” the buffed-up “guido” gushed. “We started talking online again before the show even started airing and started hanging out again.”
Emilio — who’s already met Snooki’s parents — says the Nicole Polizzi he knows is quite different from the 22-year-old self-proclaimed guidette that viewers have fallen in love with on the show. “Honestly, I think that what they show on the show, that’s not really her…..She’s actually really sweet and down-to-earth but the show makes her look like she’s a crazy party girl. It doesn’t show her other side.”
“She really just speaks what on her mind — she tells it how it is, which is nice,” he added. “She’s actually really sweet and down-to-earth but the show makes her look like she’s a crazy party girl. It doesn’t show her other side.”
Jersey Shore fans may soon get an up close and personal look at Emilio — the tanned greaser is hoping to join his girl on the forthcoming second season of the MTV smash, which will reportedly shoot in Miami’s South Beach.