The “Jersey Shore” cast including Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi, “Pauly D” Delvecchio, Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino and Jenni “J-Woww” Farley only earned a few hundred dollars each per episode for the first season, but things are going to change. Thursday’s finale of “Jersey Shore” was watched by 4.8 million viewers, three times the audience of the season opener, so now cast members believe they’re worth up to $100,000 each to film the second season this summer. According to the NY Post’s Page Six, the cast is getting accustomed to their star status, earning up to $10,000 a night for personal appearances on the party circuit. Now they’re hanging together as a united front and are letting Britney Spears’ manager Larry Rudolph, who now is handling Pauly D. mange the negotiations, which is a shrewd move. A source close to the crew tells Page Six:
“They want $10,000 an episode, arguing that the stars from ‘The Hills’ get $100,000 per episode and that show doesn’t even rate as high. like the cast of ‘Friends’ and saying if they don’t all get the pay increase, none of them will return.”
A rep for MTV refused to comment on the negotiations to Page Six, but cooly remarked: “We have not yet confirmed a season two.”
Well odds are there will be a season two and the cast is going to get a huge raise, guaranteed!
