Jersey Shore’s Sammi Giancola Admits She Was ‘Wrong’ for Blocking Snooki on Social Media

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Sammi “Sweetheart” Giancola is shedding more light on her past beef with Jersey Shore costar Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi.Sammi, 36, declined to participate when the MTV franchise was rebooted as Jersey Shore: Family Vacation in 2018.

She further distanced herself from her Jersey Shore days by temporarily blocking Snooki, 35, on social media because she thought Snooki was stealing her business idea, which she later realized wasn’t true.“Me and Nicole totally worked through our issues,” Sammi exclusively told Us Weekly on Thursday, August 3, while promoting season 6B of Jersey Shore: Family Vacation, which premieres Thursday at 8 p.m.

ET on MTV.Sammi went on to explain that when Snooki opened a shop location in Seaside Heights, New Jersey, she thought Snooki was “doing something similar” to what she’d done with her Sweetheart Coast storefront on the Ocean City, New Jersey boardwalk. “But that was not the case,” she said. “So, in the end, I actually was wrong and I told her, ‘I’m sorry.

I know you weren’t trying to copy off me.’”The Sweetheart Styles founder — who will make her return to reality TV after an 11-year hiatus in season 6B of Jersey Shore: Family Vacation — added that her decision to “exclude herself” from the friend group for a while was a “personal thing” that had “nothing to do with” her costars.“They just didn’t understand why I did that.