15 years prior to now, Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi exclaimed these phrases as MTV debuted a mannequin new current following the lives of seven 20-somethings picked to dwell collectively — all whereas having their debaucherous lives filmed for one epic summer time season in Seaside Heights.

What began with a gift the strong wasn’t sure would even make it to air grew to change into a juggernaut for the neighborhood, sparking six seasons, and a followup — Jersey Shore Family Journey — at current on Season 7, along with worldwide variations, spinoffs and imitations.

Inside the course of, Snooki, Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino, Jenni “JWoww” Farley, Pauly “DJ Pauly D” Delvecchio, Ronnie Ortiz-Magro, Samantha “Sammi Sweetheart” Giancola, Angelina Pivarnick and Deena Nicole Cortese grew to change into household names, whereas phrases like “Guido,” “Guidette,” “Grenade,” “GTL” and “Beat the Beat” took over the favored tradition lexicon.

In celebration of the current’s fifteenth anniversary, TooFab spoke with The Situation, Snooki and JWoww about filming that first season, the best way it felt to blow up in a single day, their wild experiences with celebrities — along with Jennifer Aniston — and whether or not or not they’ve one thing they actually need was not caught on digital digital camera.

The group first met on the Shore, not understanding how loads it may change their lives as quickly because it aired … or how shut they’d flip into. And referring to first impressions, Jenni has one she regrets all these years later.

“I always regret Nicole’s. I always say it’s enhancing, nonetheless she says, ‘No, it’s not, you really did that,’” recalled JWoww. “Nicole is offered in, nonetheless I’m like, ‘Dude, you appear as if a rabid chihuahua, you bought right here in with loads energy,’ and I kind of went like this [disgusted] to her. In reality, they confirmed it, and I was like, oh my god.”

“Nonetheless she nonetheless to at present, 15 years later, holds that in direction of me. She’s like, you weren’t my good good friend to begin with, it took me getting punched so as to be my good good friend,” added Jenni, who’s adamant she preferred Nicole sooner than that infamous Season 1 second. “I was intimated; I was like, woman, you had been very intimidating. You had been loud, you knew who you had been, and I’m introverted … she loves holding that in direction of me and I’m like I preferred you, that’s the reason I reacted to your punch. I preferred you sooner than that.”

Mike, within the meantime, admitted they’d been all “most likely incorrect about all people” when it obtained right here to their snap judgments.

“15 years later, all people had loads growth, loads change … That’s what’s so good about it and makes us so relatable,” he added. “That there was loads growth with all of us.”

When the cameras had been rolling on the first season, Mike admitted that, for him, he was merely “throughout the second” your complete time.

“I positively wasn’t making an attempt earlier the first season. I was so grateful and so excited to be getting my break, I assume,” he talked about, together with that none of them anticipated loads from it initially. “We had been really dwelling by the second, most likely. Then after I left, I knew we had filmed one factor explicit, and each factor exploded from there.”

“We didn’t study TV. We had been merely going for the free summer time season, free Shore house, merely to like have an outstanding time,” added Nicole. “I always wanted to be on a actuality current, and I was like, ‘Oh, that’s my probability to do it, and easily come residence and return to my common life.’ We don’t have a have a look at it how we do now, the place its our career … we had been newbies.”

Whereas Mike talked about they’d been all in it “for the drinks on the time,” Nicole joked she was “blissful for the $200 for the Shore retailer.”

Jenni admitted she was concerned the current wouldn’t work out whereas filming … and have change into rather more apprehensive when the first enterprise for the gathering didn’t air as supposed.

“On the end [of filming] we did a photoshoot and shook each other’s arms. We had been nonetheless on Blackberries, and we had been making an attempt to try to create these little Blackberry group messages; take into accout these?” she talked about of wrapping Season 1. “I take into accout Pauly giving his DJ enterprise card on account of that was the one technique to speak. It merely died down.”

Whereas Jenni talked about they’d been knowledgeable a enterprise was most likely going to air in the midst of the MTV Video Music Awards that September, it didn’t happen.

“I obtained all of my household and buddies to tune in and it under no circumstances aired. I merely remembering being, ugh,” she recalled. “They might not even inform us the title for it. So fast forward, I had MTV on, and I was cooking throughout the kitchen, and I hear my annoying ass voice on the television. I run spherical from the nook of the kitchen and into my entrance room, and was like, ‘What’s that this?!’ I might simply seen the first enterprise, which was chaos.”

“I merely take into accout Jersey Shore and I was like, ‘That’s what they named it?’ I had no idea,” she added. “I merely generally known as all my household and buddies once more and I was like, ‘See I knowledgeable you I was going to be on TV!’ and I hung up on them. No particular person believed me on account of we filmed it months prior. We ended Labor Day weekend, and it didn’t come out until December.”

Though Jenni talked about that they’d no idea the current was “going to be iconic,” she’s glad that’s how they felt filming the first batch of episodes — on account of they “actually obtained right here in with zero expectations and we had been merely ourselves.”

December 3, each factor modified for the strong, as a result of the current premiered on MTV. It was instantly iconic, making names of its stars — who had under no circumstances been throughout the spotlight sooner than.

“Fully petrifying,” Jenni talked about of their in a single day success. “It’s a should to understand we had Kardashian fame with no money. I was broke as hell.”

“I had people making an attempt through my house home windows, following me in my automotive, stealing my garbage; I’d rise up and different folks may be like little raccoons,” she recalled. “I’d be like, ‘What are you doing? Merely say hi there to me.’ I’d rise up in my second-story place, and there may be anyone in my window. It was merely madness.”

She added that their fame was pure and by no means due to the help of social media, as Instagram and Twitter had been solely of their early ranges when the current launched.

“I take into accout Ashton Kutcher signing us as a lot as Twitter … and [Nicole] was like, ‘It’s a should to sign as a lot as this issue generally known as Fb.’ I was like, ‘I don’t want to,’” Jenni continued. “She was all the time forcing me to be on social media, nonetheless in the mean time you merely rode the wave through old style media, magazines, paparazzi. There have been no cellphones and TikTok, points that made people well-known in the mean time. It was very charming, it was crazy.”

“We had been stoked,” Nicole talked about of that early fame. “I under no circumstances went to California sooner than. I under no circumstances really traveled sooner than, besides it was like Florida. So, I was like, ‘Holy crap, I’ll California. We’re not paying for one thing; each factor is like taken care of. We’ll meet celebrities’”

“I actually really feel like we had been all stoked on account of we clearly preferred consideration; we nonetheless love consideration. We had been like, ‘That’s good,’” she added.

“It positively exploded so shortly, nonetheless I assumed that we remained ourselves for a extremely very very long time,” added Mike. “Like we would exit, and we’d merely be centered on merely how we felt; being so blissful, being collectively. We had no idea what was about to happen, and each factor that obtained right here with it.”

As they grew to change into celebrities, moreover they obtained to fulfill a ton of them … first at crimson carpets hosted by MTV, sooner than getting invites to swanky events across the globe.

“So, I obtained to fulfill Leonardo DiCaprio at a membership, and we took a selfie. You probably can Google it, it’s in the marketplace,” JWoww boasted, sooner than spilling on her Jennifer Aniston encounter backstage at a particular MTV current.

“I merely take into accout her shaking my arms, with every arms, and looking out me throughout the eyes,” she recalled. “I merely take into accout my jaw totally dislocating and falling to the bottom. Nonetheless I all the time keep in mind she dealt with me so kindly — and she or he didn’t see the current at the moment, so it was merely her being like, ‘Oh, you’re [MTV programming president Tony DiSanto’s] good good friend, it’s so kind to fulfill you.’”

“Then she grew to change into a fan of the current after, and I was like, ‘I win at life,’” she exclaimed. “That’s most likely probably the most iconic issue that ever happen to me. She is so sweet, there’s nobody as sweeter.”

The Situation, within the meantime, title dropped Leo, The Rock and Jason Statham — all of whom he moreover spoke about in his e e-book.

“It merely all happen so shortly, and we had been merely being ourselves, being real. That’s what labored on the time, and that’s what nonetheless works in the mean time,” he added.

Considering plenty of the utterly wild experiences that had been captured on film — along with arrests, bodily fights, battles with substance abuse, and additional — it may very well be utterly truthful if the celebrities of Jersey Shore wished a couple of of those moments weren’t captured on digital digital camera.

“50% of it. That’s embarrassing, I would like that was under no circumstances there,” Nicole quipped when requested if there have been moments she wants didn’t make the final word decrease, sooner than explaining why she wouldn’t even have regrets.

“That’s what made us who we had been. We had been merely unapologetically ourselves,” she added. “I imagine that’s the explanation the followers preferred us on account of we had been just so precise and raw with each factor. Even when it was embarrassing.”

“Actuality TV is actuality TV. There isn’t any script, we’re the script,” added Mike. “Early on in our career, it’s extraordinarily life wish to see us make errors, see us succeed, see us fail. That’s all throughout the course of.”

Jenni, nonetheless, would pinpoint one issue she would change.

“I merely need the first season, I imagine I obtained really sick, we generally known as it the Seaside Swine Flu, the place it merely annihilated you,” she shared. “I appeared robust. In order that they didn’t play the reality that I had the flu. They solely carried out me making an attempt like a mess.”

“I merely take into accout being like, couldn’t you may have merely gotten your s–t collectively, Jenni? Like, do you have to would’ve acknowledged this freaking current would have been the first hit, may you may have washed your hair?” she laughed. “I appeared a hella mess, nonetheless as soon as extra I was great sick, they often solely had so little points to put in each episode. I is likely to be throughout the background making an attempt like an absolute disaster, which I regret.”

The current’s success launched the Jersey Shore aesthetic to the tons — and we nonetheless haven’t completely recovered. Because of the strong, the poof and blowouts gained popularity, whereas Ed Hardy and faux tans took over. And now, 15 years later, these late 2000s fashions are already making a comeback.

“[Her daugher] Meliani wishes a Juicy Couture for Christmas. I was like, ‘What’s occurring in life?’  Shout out to Juicy, can you please contact me? I don’t even know strategies to buy it anymore. I used to go in malls,” talked about JWoww of the mannequin’s iconic sweatsuits. “I’m like, do you buy it on-line now? I’m so historic; I want help.’”

“My 10-year-old wishes it. My eight-year-old wishes Ed Hardy. He’s mad at me that he seen episodes and pictures, and outfits that I wore that I haven’t obtained anymore,” she continued. “I’m like guys, I had bins of Ed Hardy. Bins! My mom and father talked about it best, to under no circumstances eradicate your stuff on account of it could come spherical as soon as extra. They’re correct.”

“I miss it,” Nicole talked about of that 2009 mannequin. “Pauly merely launched once more Ed Hardy on our ultimate journey to Jamaica. I went buying this morning and [remembered] all of the Juicy baggage I used to placed on. That was the most effective mannequin for me, like I merely preferred all of it. So no, that was really my favorite interval ever. The 2000s, the gaudiness, I miss it loads.”

Mike, who nonetheless loves a Versace print, talked about he does nothing nonetheless smile when he appears at outdated photographs. “I’m grateful for the great, grateful for the harmful, grateful for all of it!” he added.

Catch new episodes of Jersey Shore Family Journey every Thursday on MTV!