Jersey Shore cast members on “strike”
More drama behind the scenes of MTV‘s Jersey Shore.
Word is (via TMZ) that most of the cast is refusing to show up for filming the “second” part of the second season, while Radar Online is saying that the network has given them until today to show up for work “or else”.
It’s sort of convoluted, but from the sounds of things, MTV is trying to pull a bit of fast one, referring to the next phase of production as the second half of the second season or 2B (even though it’s also been identified as “cycle three”) so they don’t have to re-enter contract negotiations with the cast. 2A is the part that was filmed down in Miami during the spring.
MTV is taking a divide and conquer approach, offering Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino a bonus of $60 000 to $1800 000, depending how ratings go for both parts of the second season, plus a huge salary increase of up to $45 thousand per episode for season three (or four, depending on how you look at it).
Confusing, isn’t it? No wonder Angelia (the boring one that split a couple of episodes into the first season) left again.
