Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino gets an influx of photos of “Jersey Shore” fans dressed up as him — complete with a neck brace and sunglasses — so this year he decided to entertain them — by going as himself.
The now-infamous scene that inspired the costumes — of the reality star ramming his head into a concrete wall on the MTV series — aired over 13 years ago.“As we get closer to Halloween, I start to get inundated,” he told The Post.“I love my fans and I repost everybody … You’ll look at my Story and you will see all the neck braces and the sunglasses.”Sorrentino, 42, who has 3.4 million followers on Instagram, said he is always touched by those who dress up as him each year.
So he wanted to honor them with his costume choice this time around.“I wanted to surprise the fans and bring the look back with a slight twist,” said Sorrentino, who added a hospital gown to the ensemble.The shocking reality TV moment — which landed him in the hospital with a sprained neck and concussion — is from Season 4 of the show, when he was going through opiate withdrawal.
When his co-star Ronnie Ortiz-Magro picked a fight with him, he went into a rage, and ran head-first into the wall of the house they were staying at in Florence, Italy.“It is hard to watch because I was going through a lot of pain at the time.
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