Politics & Government
Point Pleasant Beach To 'Jersey Shore' Cast: Get Lost
Local officials are taking action to get the "Jersey Shore" cast to leave after Snooki raised some commotion during a recent video incident.
POINT PLEASANT BEACH – Point Pleasant Beach officials want the "Jersey Shore" cast to leave after Snooki, the show's most famous character, raised some commotion during a recent incident. The incident was captured on video that is shown below.
Mayor Stephen Reid said the borough's counsel and police chief were attempting to contact the show's producers to let them know that Point Pleasant Beach has an ordinance saying you cannot film on public or private property without a permit.
As of Wednesday, he said, the borough had not received a response.
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Reid told Patch that 495 Productions, the producer of “Jersey Shore” and its spin-off “Jersey Shore Family Vacation,” did not notify the borough that they were filming in town.
Reid said the borough never would have given them a permit to film and the show is not welcome in Point Pleasant Beach. He said the borough is trying to find out what it can do.
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"If they are filming in the town, they have to get a permit for filming," Reid said.
The cast was recently filming in Point Pleasant Beach, and drama involving longtime cast member Snooki was caught on video. A neighbor, Frankie Adao of the UNnormalized podcast, provided the video to TMZ.
"Stop taking to me. I'm leaving," Snooki can be heard yelling. "Leave me the -- alone."
"This is why I didn't want to do this ---," she continued, walking away from the house that is on the boardwalk in Point Pleasant Beach. The cast filmed on Aug. 7 at Jenkinson’s Pavilion Bar and Restaurant.
"I want to go home to my kids. That's where I belong."
Adao said on his YouTube channel that production ran after her, trying to calm her down.
TMZ says the cast eventually made up, and they're later seen walking in front of the rest room at Jenkinson's with cameras on them.
Here is the video – the fight is at 0:23 and the cast is seen at Jenkinson's at 1:54 (viewer discretion advised for language):
"Jersey Shore: Family Vacation" had recently picked Lavallette to film some of their latest escapades, Mayor Walter LaCicero confirmed to Patch. It was the third New Jersey town in a matter of weeks that was approached by the MTV show.
However reluctantly, Lavallette officials were ready to hear what the "Jersey Shore" crew was ready to do. "They sent a letter asking if they could film here," LaCicero said. "We said we would need specifics about when and where."
But the producers never got back, though LaCicero said there was little the town could do if the show wanted to film on private property.
Public property is a different story, and Lavallette didn't appear to be ready to open its doors to the party-driven show.
"The reputation that the show has is not something we were interested in," LaCicero said.
As far as he's concerned, "It's a dead issue."
What the show was planing to do in Lavallette is not known. Last month, the Hamilton Township Committee voted to table a proposal from 495 Productions to film episodes of "Jersey Shore Family Vacation" in the Mays Landing section of the town, according to The Press of Atlantic City.
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The committee was supposed to vote on the plan this month, but it's not known when, or if, it will come to a vote.
MTV wanted a "staycation episode" at an Airbnb rental property with some of the cast members for the next season, according to The Press of Atlantic City. The dates considered were Aug. 6 and 7 or Aug. 19 through 23.
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The cast of "Jersey Shore" had been filming "Jersey Shore Family Vacation" out of Manalapan and other locations; specifically, 18 Kinney Road in Manalapan.
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