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If Jersey Shore is getting any new stars in time for a prospective
Season 6, the latest addition will have been spawned for the job.
Snooki
is pregnant, everybody. At least, that's what the New York Post is
claiming, reporting her wee one is just three months along — and
reportedly fathered by the 24-year-old's boyfriend and sometime Jersey
Shore co-star Jionni LaValle.
Snooki has denied pregnancy rumours
in the past — notably just this month — when she went on Good Morning
America to brush off a story published in Star magazine. "I definitely
do want kids, but I'm not pregnant," she told GMA's Lara Spencer Feb. 2.
"Being pregnant should be a real thing and a happy thing," she
continued.
And, as per the Post's suggestion, it should also be
something that scores a modest payout from a celeb glossy. Making a
pregnancy announcement isn't something to treat carelessly, though. It
isn't as easy as getting arrested for a drunk-and-disorderly. But the
Post reports Snooki sold her baby news to Us Weekly after shopping the
story to various mags, and she's looking to rebrand herself as a
celebrity mommy — "the next Kourtney Kardashian," according to the
Post's source.
Behind the scenes, though, MTV is supposedly
scrambling to figure out a strategy. Snooki and her Jersey Shore
castmate JWoww have already begun filming their spinoff show, but a
pregnancy wasn't part of the plan.
"MTV went into crisis mode
after they found out," one source told the Post. "They're trying to hide
it because it would greatly affect the creative direction of the show."
Snooki
and JWoww spoke to Us Weekly the other day about the spinoff. "We want
it to be different than Jersey Shore, so it's not always going to be at
the club, drinking and partying. You guys know we can drink, you know we
can party, " JWoww told Us Weekly.
"You've only seen the party side of us," Snooki interjected. "You haven't seen this side of us, which is sober and normal."
Snooki
continued: "Me and Jenni are in serious relationships, so obviously
we're not going to be wanting to go to the Shore all the time. We want
to settle down."