{"id":113797,"date":"2025-08-27T13:14:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T13:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/113797\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T13:14:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T13:14:10","slug":"jersey-shores-sammi-sweetheart-giancola-welcomes-baby-with-justin-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/113797\/","title":{"rendered":"Jersey Shore&#8217;s Sammi &#8220;Sweetheart&#8221; Giancola Welcomes Baby With Justin May\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>9. In season one, the cast really did work at the T-shirt shop, with Vinny telling Vulture, &#8220;We did the first season for nothing, zero dollars, except whatever we made at the Shore Store.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>10. Shop owner Danny Merk even revealed their salary to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vulture.com\/article\/jersey-shore-mtv-oral-history.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Vulture<\/a>: &#8220;They started off at $10 an hour, then it went to $15, and then I think I gave them 20 bucks an hour at the very end.&#8221; The hardest worker? If you asked Merk, he&#8217;d say Pauly D, with Jenni and Sammi proving talented at the cash register. Meanwhile, he says the worst employees were the Situation and Snooki. <\/p>\n<p>11. After the monster success of the first season, the cast reportedly got a major pay raise, earning $10,000 per episode, per the New York Daily News. By the series&#8217; end in 2012, they were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/general-news\/three-days-life-a-drama-210816\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">bringing in $100,000 per ep, according to The Hollywood Reporter.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>12.\u00a0 Ever wonder where GTL came from? You can thank production, who found the cast&#8217;s daily routine of going to the gym, hitting the tanning salon and doing laundry so tedious and mundane they were afraid they didn&#8217;t have a show. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We were writing on a dry-erase board\u2014because we always were like, &#8216;OK, so-and-so went here, so-and-so went here&#8217;\u2014and every day we&#8217;d write &#8216;gym, tanning, laundry,'&#8221; Salsano revealed to Vulture. &#8220;Then we got lazy and just started writing &#8216;GTL.'&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"9. In season one, the cast really did work at the T-shirt shop, with Vinny telling Vulture, &#8220;We&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113798,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,88],"class_list":["post-113797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}