The family vacation is coming to a close, but MTV allegedly forgot to tell the family, according to Jenni “Jwoww” Farley!
As The Ashley previously reported, MTV announced the ninth and final season of “Jersey Shore Family Vacation” in March, marking the end of a 17-year run for all variations of the Jersey Shore franchise.
While the currently airing season is set to showcase the original cast one last time, Jenni recently revealed that she and her roomies were allegedly not informed that this would be their last season.
In a new interview with Skeery Jones for iHeart Radio’s Z100 New York, Jenni asked, “Do you want the tea?” (Of course we do!)
“We didn’t know [the show was ending],” she revealed, stating that the cast had to film three different “endings” for the season.
“So you’re gonna see a [version of the] show that we ended up, in interview, cutting three different ways. We cut it continuing the show, like, not saying a goodbye [but rather a] ‘see you later.’ [We did] an undetermined one, and then a goodbye, which made me sob like a maniac,” she said.
Jenni insisted that, while filming Season 9 of ‘Jersey Shore Family Vacation,’ the cast “had no intention of [it] being a goodbye show or season.”
Although she didn’t make a definitive claim, Jenni suggested that the uncertainty of ending the show had to do with the (at the time) pending Warner Bros. merger with Paramount Skydance. MTV– the company responsible for all iterations of ‘Jersey Shore’– is currently owned by Paramount and operated under their Paramount Media Network division.
While the future of the long-running franchise remains unknown at this time, Jenni said the cast has not lost hope that they will find a new home on another network.
“We have faith between Paramount+ or Hulu … it’s not over,” she said.
(For the record, Paramount+ is, of course, owned by Paramount, while Hulu is owned by The Walt Disney Company.)
Jenni reiterated that the cancellation of ‘Jersey Shore Family Vacation’ was not a group decision and claims that she and her co-stars are still working to find a way to keep the family vacation going.
“Driving here, I must have had 180 missed texts, no lie, [from] the group chats,” she said. “Three different group chats: one with the production company, one without [the production company], and [one with] the girls, obviously.
“We all were like, ‘What is happening? What’s the update? What are the ratings? Where are we going? Who does Ronnie [Ortiz-Magro] have to hook up with to make this happen?’” Jenni continued.
Despite the multitude of unknowns, Jenni maintained throughout her Z100 interview that fans have not seen the last of the ‘Jersey Shore’ crew. Some of Jenni’s co-stars made similar statements in a video back in March while reacting to the news that Season 9 would be the “last hurrah for a cultural icon.”
“Final? Who said anything about final?” Pauly D questioned. “We’re just getting started!”
In the same video, the cast assured fans that they have “a lot more messiness” for viewers to look forward to and that even though the network is changing, they are still the same people that fans fell in love with back in 2009.
“I promise you, the story will continue,” Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino told fans. “The comeback is always greater than the setback.”
New episodes of ‘Jersey Shore Family Vacation’ air Thursdays on MTV.
Watch a clip from Jenni’s Z100 interview below.
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(Photos: MTV; Instagram)
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Is anybody still watching this? I quit after Jen and Ronnie
They need to move on