Here's the Situation: 'Jersey Shore' Stars Want Raises

By PopEater Staff Posted Jan 24th 2010 09:29AM

The cast of 'Jersey Shore' has a case of 'Hills'-itis. Like their slightly less buff brethren in Cali, Snooki, Pauly D and Co. are reportedly playing hardball with MTV in order to beef up their salaries for season 2 of the hit show.

According to TMZ, sources connected with the negotiations reveal that the cast has rejected offers to give each 5 large, er, $5,000 per episode in addition to a $10,000 signing bonus. But with the show being such a big hit -- the season finale attracted 4.8 million onlookers -- they have demanded much bigger raises.

Sources say MTV bumped up the offer to $10,000 per episode, but they haven't responded. So, that's the situation regarding those lovable, mostly Italian-American 20-somethings.

Some members of 'The Hills' reportedly scored $100,000 per episode of that MTV franchise.

More from TMZ: "We've also learned MTV has a contractual hold on the cast for another year, so technically Snooki and company have no right to renegotiate -- but it's done all the time with hit shows."

Meanwhile, police say fans of the show deluged a New Jersey nightclub Friday night, forcing the closure of a thoroughfare and leading to the arrests of four people. Property owner Dick Grabowsky told the Newark Star-Ledger that about 2,000 people showed up at the 501 Lounge in Montclair on Friday night. He says the club has a capacity of 800.

Montclair Police Chief David Sabagh says fights broke out among the crowds who gathered for the advertised meet and greet with the cast of the hit reality TV show. Four people were arrested on charges of disorderly conduct and drunken driving.

Police closed a stretch of the main business strip outside the club for two hours.

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Sunday 24 January

By steve

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To the jersey shore crew just remember no matter how much money you get there's no cure for herpes.Those hot bodies aren't going to look good when you have the herpes cold sore on your faces or down below.

By BOBBY BRACIOLA

GIVE THEM THE 'SCAROLE THEY DESERVE! PAULY D AND THE KREWE WERE TOTALLY ENTERTAINING AND IT WAS GREAT TV. MTV KICKED NBC'S ASS THANKS TO THIS HILARIOUS GROUP OF GUIDS, PIMPS, HOS, SPACCONES, CAFONES, CHIACHIARONES AND PUTANAS! AIN'T IT OR WHA?!
SALUTI TO "THE SHORE". CIEN TANNI PAISANI!
CIAO,
BOBBY BRACIOLA

By Dano

Should rename the show....Jersey Thugs. The Italians have now gone to the level of blacks singing about killing and drugs...Now we have Italians teaching their own kind its fine to be a thug and to have sex with anyone at anytime. It is oke to go out clubbing...get drunk and beat the crap out of someone. What happened to the ole Catholic Italians...right there before your eyes...screwing on TV and drunk or drugged...way to go!

Monday 25 January

By Kerry

Italians were never good christians. Italians taught blacks n hispanics how to be thugs. they are the orginal drive by mobsters

By Ron

Yes lets give this bunch of LOSERS a raise. You do not need any talent today to make money on TV and this show proves that.

By Elizabeth

The show is ridiculously stupid anyways! snookie should get beat up more often!

By scott

they are a buntch of greaseball gavones...im ashamed to be italian..and 1 other thing..i'm live at the shore these bennys r freaks..funny we locals dont act like that...

By Shannon

Amazing the trash people are entertained by nowadays. Why in the hell anyone would want to watch spoiled douchebags act like the douchebags they are is beyond me.

By nate

who do these no count, no good idiots think they are? Fire the losers and hire new ones, there's got to be more of these type of idiots somewhere

By Derek

I think I'm not the only one here who thinks that MTV is the root of all evil and should be destroyed. It's a bunch of crap shows that all the pricks from middle school watch to know what's cool or not.

By tres'

they are retarded, who watches this crap anyways. they are walking skin cancers!

By danielandrewdavi

Well an Italian has a better chance then a Jew - thank God for that at least!

By Harley

Who the hell are these kids?

By Rob

It seems like everybody but Italian people like watching these aholes. The Networks figured out people in this country like watching garbage it started with O.J. Jerry Springer, Anna Nicole Smith progressed to Kate & Eight, Khardasians ,Octomom etc. It says someting about the culture in America or I should say lack thereof.

By Dom Rizzuti

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What a stupid show, they should be paying the network and us for forcing us to watch that illiterate and stupid stuff. I am an Italian-American and very unproud of that foolish bunch of air-heads.

By David

Why not pay them more....as stupid as the show is, they're amazingly popular and after all, they're the reason people watch the show. Pay them more...protect your investment, MTV....don't be greedy. Do the right thing.

By dppsus

Italians are better then MICKS and Krauts that for sure. Jealous jerks.

By mike hunt

Typical Italians full of Moor blood.

By Rick

What does that say about our society if that's a "hit show"..The trashier ya are the more likely you can get a show nowadays..Get rid of all this so called reality crap..

By Hannah

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I've got some real bad news for people who think "all Italians act like that." The DO NOT! I married into a large Italian family and not one of them are TRASH like these kids. MOST Italians are hardworking people who don't expect life to fall into their laps...these kids do not represent the Italian-American population. They are on a stinkin' "reality" show which is a joke as most of those are scripted. Some people are just trashy and it has nothing to do with their heritage.

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