How long has jersey shore been on

Now the duck phone is the national symbol of 'Jersey Shore. Polizzi once told V Magazine that filming was "like being in jail for two months. They were allowed one phone call per week. The producers wanted all conversations to be public and the cast wasn't even allowed to write notes to each other.

In the V Magazine interview, Polizzi also said that they weren't allowed to read or watch television — they were completely cut off from the world around them. According to The Daily Mail, the producers encouraged cast members to sleep with each other and other people, but they made sure to keep themselves safe. The contracts the cast signed reportedly made it clear that the network was not responsible for anything that happened after hooking up, specifically things like contracting STDs.

The contract reportedly stated that any STD that might be contracted was not their responsibility and the network could not be blamed or sued for anything to do with them. There were other examples of MTV covering all of their bases: like any house guests getting carded before walking in.

Salsano told Vulture, "People are literally given a field sobriety test to get into the house. We have the same carding system they have at that club — that electronic thing where they run your ID — because we don't let anybody in the house that's not Also, if someone is that inebriated, we'd ask people to leave. Polizzi told V Magazine that producers were always around and that they had to tell them an hour before they wanted to go anywhere.

Salsano told Vulture that there were 42 cameras inside the house, the Shore Store, and on the boardwalk and that they "literally wired the entire town.

Salsano lived in the houses in Miami and Italy, watching the cast's every move in a control room. She had a camera feed in her living room and bedroom to always keep an eye on what was going on. Pauly DelVecchio told Vulture, "The only time you're off-camera is when you're in the bathroom.

Even if you're in the bathroom with somebody else, they say two is a party, so they film it. We took long showers to get away from cameras. During season four, the cast headed off to film in Italy. Apparently, a lot of what happened was not actually reality. One extra told The Daily Beast that "everything that happens here is completely scripted. When Polizzi got in a car accident with a police car, she reportedly had actually hit one of the members of the security team.

One police source in Florence said it didn't seem accidental at all. The Daily Beast also reported that MTV had rented out the pizza place the cast worked at during the season and that all of the customers were extras.

As the show became more popular, more security was needed. Security teams were brought in to protect the cast in public because swarms of people were everywhere. Police had to put up barricades around the house to keep people from going inside, and fans waited outside of it for hours.

At the Shore Shop, people would line up for hours to get in. Instead, she wanted to explore the heart, passion and sense of family she knew so well. She had spent her own summers at the Jersey Shore, so she knew the drill. Of course, MTV already had a successful show featuring housemates. Even though Sorrentino would go on to marry his college girlfriend, he served as the prototype for a guy who lived for the gym and hookups at the Shore.

Babies love me. Dogs love me," he said in his audition tape see video below. The competition series planned to have an all-male cast. One of the originals was actually named Joey Fistpumps. Cortese dropped out when her grandmother died, and another Staten Islander, Angelina Pivarnick , joined the cast. She put on a leopard dress and downed some Southern Comfort before her audition. In September , after she had filmed the show, Polizzi posted a YouTube video to her SnookTV channel with club music playing in the background.

You never know. Or it was me," Polizzi says. People love to watch that, especially on reality TV. I mean, I love to watch that stuff.

Train wreck TV? You have to celebrate their lives. The series premiered to an audience of 1. By the season finale the next month, the show had drawn 4. The premiere of the third season in attracted 8. Why did this reality series make such an impression? The answer was simple. Caution: video below contains profanity. On that show, Teresa Giudice would whip out wads of cash to pay for home furnishings.

She was disgusted by the idea of moving into a house that someone else had used. They were everyday, working-class kids that were living life in their own rules. They were the kids that you knew. They were the people that you related to. On January 29, , MTV announced that a second season of the series consisting of 12 episodes had been ordered and will air in the summer of MTV announced that the second season would follow all of the first season cast as they "escape the cold northeast and find themselves in a new destination.

It has been announced that a Season 4 will be filmed. On August 30, , MTV announced that the series will be cancelled after 6 seasons, the sixth and final season airs October 4, The series finale ended on December 20, with the episode, The Icing on the Cake.