Cast Feud? Inside Sammi Sweetheart’s Reason For Ditching ‘Jersey Shore’ Reunion

The cast of Jersey Shore is reuniting for Jersey Shore Family Vacation, but Sammi “Sweetheart” Giancola won’t be heading to Seaside Heights. RadarOnline.com can exclusively reveal the reason Giancola won’t be joining her co-stars for the show’s highly anticipated return.

“Sammi is working on another project,” a source close to Giancola told RadarOnline.com. “I believe she is joining Celebrity Big Brother.”

But joining another show isn’t the only reason Giancola declined to return, as Us Weekly reported she doesn’t want to be in the same house as her ex-boyfriend Ronnie Ortiz-Magro.

“Everyone was invited to come on the show, but Sammi was the only one who didn’t want to,” the insider said. “A big reason for that was because she didn’t want to be around Ronnie.”

As Jersey Shore fans know, Giancola and Ortiz-Magro's tumultuous relationship was one of the main story lines on the series, which ran from 2009 to 2012. The couple ended their toxic relationship for good in 2014.

Along with Ortiz-Magro, Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi, Pauly “Pauly D” DelVecchio, Jenni “JWoww” Farley, Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino and Vinny Guadagnino will return to the shore house.

RadarOnline.com reported a reunion was in the works in July.

“Right now we are on board with getting the reunion started,” Cortese told RadarOnline.com. “We’re throwing ideas around. We want to be back in the house together.”

At the time, the cast hoped MTV would pick the reunion up.

“We’re mature, but we still like to have fun,” she said. “Just cause some of us are married and have kids doesn’t mean we don’t go to clubs. We all still enjoy ourselves and have fun and go out.”

Jersey Shore Family Vacation will air in 2018.

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