'Jersey Shore' Gets Booted from Filming Location
by EG
Jersey Shore won't be able to call Seaside Heights, NJ home any longer. The town has said that it's "disinterested" in letting the bawdy reality series film within its borders, and the show has been denied permits to film there. Fortunately, there are other places in New Jersey that have no problems being associated with a lack of taste and discretion. Read on to find out where the show is moving to.
Via Us Weekly.
Wildwood to the rescue! The cast of Jersey Shore: Family Vacation is moving into a house in Wildwood, New Jersey, for the second season of the reboot because they can no longer film in Seaside Heights, a source exclusively tells Us Weekly.
“They have been filming here the second season but they haven’t officially moved into their house yet,” the source tells Us. “MTV couldn’t get Seaside to approve permits for filming so they’ll be moving into a house in Wildwood on July 15.”
The insider adds that the cast — Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi, Jenni “JWoww” Farley, Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino, DJ Pauly D, Vinny Guadagnino, Ronnie Ortiz-Magro and Deena Nicole Cortese — were off for the 4th of July, but resumed filming season 2 on Thursday, July 5. They are also set to film in Atlantic City, New Jersey, “in the next couple of days,” the source notes, adding that this will be their “first night away together” for the second season. Pauly also has his monthly appearance at the Atlantic City club Harrah’s on Saturday, July 7, which the cast may be in town to attend.
The Seaside Heights Borough Administrator Christopher Vaz tells Us that 495 Productions was recently “advised that the Borough remains disinterested in having the show filmed in Seaside Heights on any long term or regular basis.” According to Vaz, however, the production company was issued a “limited permit” on June 27 and 28 to be able to film at the Jersey Shore House, T-shirt store and Casino Pier.
“The subject of the filming was to stop by the house to celebrate two of the cast members’ birthdays and say goodbye to the house,” Vaz tells Us. “Then visit Casino Pier to observe the post-Sandy improvements before the cast moves to its new Jersey Shore home and location for the balance of the show’s filming season … We were swayed in large part by a desire to say ‘thank you’ to the cast for raising money during their Restore the Shore Telethon that was used to purchase our two performance stages and Boardwalk sun shade structures.”
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