Anderson Cooper and Snooki go on a spray-tan date [Video]

For Anderson Cooper and Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi, a little spray tanning goes a long way in the healing department.

Though Cooper ripped the tiny tinted reality star in April for being a no-talent, overpaid hack, it seems the tides have turned with the advent of his softer, sweeter daytime talk show, "Anderson."

So much so that Cooper simultaneously got quality time with the Snookster and a decent chance to show off his rockin' (albeit white) guns and torso.

"Oh my God, you're pale!" Snooki screamed upon greeting Anderson at New York's Beach Bum tanning. It didn't take long for the broadcast journalist to peel off his top, inspiring further Polizzi cries along the lines of, "I had no idea that Mr. Anderson had muscles! When he took off his shirt he had huge, like, peanut muscles."

Those peanuts would be Mr. Cooper's biceps, which thanks to the magic of tanning serum get some definition in the video below. We're thrilled to know these two can work out their differences. That, or Anderson is hiding a longtime addiction to the spray.

 

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Left photo: Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi. Credit: Andrew H. Walker / Getty Images

Right photo: One of these people is Anderson Cooper. One of these people is made of wax. Have a fab time figuring it out from there. Credit: Lucas Jackson / Reuters

Abercrombie would pay 'Jersey Shore' cast to take off its clothes

The situation: Abercrombie & Fitch is too good for the "Jersey Shore" and is willing to make a "substantial payment" to cast members not to wear its clothes.

Abercrombie & Fitch, the Ohio-based clothing retailer that has previously been in hot water for its racy T-shirts, racy catalogs and questionable employment practices, asked "Jersey Shore" star Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino in a statement Tuesday to stop wearing its digs on TV because his character may be sullying its name. 

"We are deeply concerned that Mr. Sorrentino's association with our brand could cause significant damage to our image. We understand that the show is for entertainment purposes, but believe this association is contrary to the aspirational nature of our brand, and may be distressing to many of our fans," an Abercrombie & Fitch representative said in the statement. "We have also extended this offer to other members of the cast, and are urgently waiting a response."

So that means no high-priced A&F graphic tees or college-friendly sweats for Pauly D, Snooki, JWoww, Vinny, Ron, Sammi and Deena either. Conveniently, the company's offer and the attendant publicity coincide with late summer's back-to-school shopping crush.

In an interview with New York magazine last summer, The Situation sounded off on the "Jersey Shore" effects on merchandise.

"The show went international, and I read that it's very big overseas, especially 'The Situation' -- my name, or my character -- is known worldwide now," he said. "Abercrombie & Fitch, their most popular shirt, they told me, is 'Fitchuation.' I mean, where did they get that from? Obviously from myself."

Sorrentino earned roughly $3 million last year from the show and pushing merchandise for various brands -- still, might it pay for the Sitch to ditch A&F during his "gym, tan, laundry" routine? Like, more than it would pay if he were hired as their spokesmodel?

Hey, we don't hear Ed Hardy complaining about the cast wearing its ornate digs on the show. 

The MTV series, which broke MTV's ratings record with its recent fourth-season premiere, is currently filming the antics of the hard-partying, gym-loving, partially Italian American cast in Florence, Italy.

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Photo: Abercrombie & Fitch has made an offer to Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino -- shown in a Cohesive & Co. suit at GQ's Men of the Year party in March -- and the rest of the "Jersey Shore" gang to stop wearing its "aspirational" clothes. Credit: Charles Sykes / Associated Press

Snooki's Italian car accident: License lost; lawsuit possible

Looks like the "Jersey Shore" gang might need to have their pasta delivered to the crib -- at least one cast member is no longer allowed to drive.

Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi was behind the wheel of a Fiat Multipla in Florence, Italy, on Monday afternoon when she crashed into the back of a police car (a police car, Snook?). Co-star Deena Cortese was in the passenger seat, as the whole gang is filming the current season of the MTV reality show in Italy.

The officers involved in the crash, a male and female, suffered minor injuries such as cuts and bruises, according to Us Weekly. Polizzi was taken into custody but not formally arrested. MTV Productions and the police confirmed that she wasn't under the influence.

So what's -- as the guidette would say -- the big freakin' deal? Polizzi automatically lost her privilege to drive in the country, and although she wasn't arrested, she could face civil charges from the officers hurt in the incident.

This hasn't been the only speed bump for "Jersey Shore" abroad -- the Us Weekly report also notes that the entire gang has amassed over 300 euros worth of parking violations. Not to mention emotional ones, as last week Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino and Ronnie Ortiz-Magro got into a nasty brawl.

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Photo: "Snooki" Polizzi stops for some comments outside of her hotel in Florence, Italy. Credit: Elisabetta Villa / Getty Images 

'Jersey Shore's' Ronnie and The Situation reportedly brawl in Italy

"Jersey Shore's" Ronnie Ortiz-Magro and Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino got into an all-out fistfight in Italy, according a report.

Though the cause of the Monday night brawl is unclear, it may have been sparked by a fight between Ronnie's on-again, off-again girlfriend Sammie Giancola, TMZ reported. All that Ron-Ron Juice must have gotten him amped because Sitch got pummeled quite a bit. We imagine their cameramen got it all on tape.

Ronnie's knuckles were cut and bleeding and Sitch's eye was surrounded by red marks poorly concealed by a hoodie, the site reported. The two arrived separately at their apartment hours after the brawl. See the photos here.

The Situation has earned a reputation as "The Snitchuation" on the show because of his frequent tattletale tactics and instigating innuendos. Some "Shore" fans have probably been waiting for this moment for a while, but we're not sure if that warrants a beating.

The cast is shooting the fourth season of the hard-partying MTV reality show in their ancestral land, filming the series in Florence, Italy's Renaissance City. And Ronnie and Sitch aren't the only ones wreaking havoc in the old country.

Deena Cortese, the self-proclaimed "blast in a glass," was spotted plunging into Florence's Arno river after climbing a ledge, and the cast has incited a crosstown pizza battle, according to the New York Post. Florence's Mayor Matteo Renzi has barred the meatball-lovers from filming in bars, clubs and drinking in public. They also can't film at historic landmarks like the Uffizi Gallery and Boboli Gardens.

It remains to be seen how that will affect the next season.

Do you think "The Situation" deserved his beating? How do you think the next season of "Jersey Shore" will compare to previous seasons? Tell us in comments.

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Photos: Left, Ronnie Ortiz-Magro. Credit: Ethan Miller / Getty Images. Right, Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino. Credit: Charles Sykes / Associated Press. Lower left: "Jersey Shore" cast in Italy. Credit: Fabrizio Giovannozzi / Associated Press

Pregnant 'Jersey Shore' alum Angelina Pivarnick no longer engaged

Angelina Pivarnick is still pregnant, but the "Jersey Shore" alumna and Dave Kovacs are no longer engaged. The couple have broken off their brief engagement, which followed an even briefer romance. 

Kovacs, whose ex-fiancee confirmed earlier this week that she was pregnant, said they broke up when he found out Pivarnick was being unfaithful. Guess that will make her a single mom, just like January Jones.

"I'm going through a really tough time right now," Kovacs told RadarOnline. "I have ended things with Angelina."

Her former beau, who proposed to the terribly tan villainess in February, claimed that he discovered texts from various men when he went through her phone. (Um, Sammie-Ronnie much?)

"I got a text from a firefighter who actually apologized for sleeping with Angelina, saying he just found out she was engaged," Kovacs said. According to Radar, she'd been going on secret trips to Long Island to meet up with said firefighter.

"I actually found a pair of guy's underwear in her car," he added. "I truly fell in love with this girl and wanted to have a family and grow old with her."

Shady, but such is life at the shore. No wonder her castmates banished her twice. But -- is it wrong to wonder whether he is indeed her baby daddy?

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Photo: Angelina Pivarnick. Credit: Emily Shur / MTV

'Jersey Shore' villainess Angelina Pivarnick is pregnant

Holy juice-headed meatballs, Snooki! Former "Jersey Shore" housemate Angelina Pivarnick is pregnant!

The self-proclaimed "Kim Kardashian of Staten Island" and fiancé Dave Kovacs are expecting a little tan bundle of joy, TMZ reported.

Pivarnick did not say when the baby is due, but till then, no more Ron Ron Juice for this girl.

Kovacs proposed to the onetime shore house villain in February at Style360 Sachika's Fashion Show after only a few months of dating. She had previously been linked to "The Bachelor" alum Justin Rego.

Her baby daddy got down on one knee during the red carpet walk-up to the event — popping the question for all the lined-up cameras to see. Strategic, much? And he gave her a 2.5-carat platinum ring to seal the deal.

No word yet on when she plans to get married, but we have a feeling it'll probably be publicly displayed as well. 

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Photo: Angelina Pivarnick. Credit: Emily Shur / MTV.

Anderson Cooper picks on Snooki for being Snooki

All the people who are paying Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi to be Snooki have been added to Anderson Cooper's "Ridiculist."

"Snooki is one impossibly lucky, unusually spunky, freakishly tan, beer-guzzling, juicehead-hugging, muscle-loving, Botero body, pint-sized moneymaking machine," Cooper said Tuesday on his CNN show, "Anderson Cooper 360.° (Watch the full rant above.)

News that she and her castmates are reportedly collecting $100,000 per episode for the fourth season of "Jersey Shore" prompted Cooper's tirade. He wasn't a fan of Snooki making $32,000 for her appearance at Rutgers University -- $2,000 more than author Toni Morrison -- or that she got paid $25,000 for club appearances. Guess he didn't realize the guidette was also getting her own spin-off.

He put the club fee less than delicately as the "Show Up and Throw Up Fee."

"$25,000 to show up and hopefully throw up because frankly if you go to a club to see Snooki, that's really all you want to see," he said.

The host played montages of Snooki sensibilities and compared her literature to Morrison's.

"Any juicehead will get some nut shrinkage. And bacne," he quoted from Snooki's book "A Shore Thing."

But the comments didn't seem to faze the pickle-loving meatball.

"Every1s askin me about Mista Anderstand Cooper. He called me freakishly tan AND I'm lucky? Gotta love this man! ..." she tweeted.

Word on the street is that the silver-haired fox himself hobnobs with the likes of "D-Lister" Kathy Griffin and Atlanta Housewife NeNe Leakes, and is a self-proclaimed reality television fan.

So, does anyone feel kind of bad for the Snooks that she was singled out for his diatribe instead of other absurdly popular reality stars like Kim Kardashian or Heidi Montag? Tell us in comments.

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'Jersey Shore' spinoffs multiply: Snooki, JWoww are moving in together [Poll]

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Snooki and JWoww of "Jersey Shore" are moving in together! The ultra-tan duo said MTV is working on a spinoff project just for them.

Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi and Jenni "JWoww" Farley had already been in cahoots about a  move-in before the network made it official.

"It's pretty much just the concept of me and Jenni being on our own without our roommates," Snooki told MTV News.

The third-season scene of the besties returning to JWoww's broken home with then-boyfriend Tom seemed a bit more real than usual "Shore" fare, so a spinoff almost seems natural.

"It was a concept before the show," JWoww said. "We legitimately just wanted to buy a house together. She wanted to get out of her dad's, and I wanted to move out of the home that everyone could see on TV, so they were like, 'Let's shoot it!' "

Perhaps they were getting sick of all the apocalyptic Ronnie and Sammi drama. The location for the 12-episode series has yet to be announced.

But these Seasiders aren't the only ones with a spinoff. Housemate DJ Pauly D (Paul DelVecchio) has his own 12-episode run -- cameras are set to capture the spike-haired stud's journey to become "one of the country’s most in-demand DJs."

His show is supposed to be like a "reality 'Entourage,' " according to our friends at Show Tracker. Perhaps mixed in with a lot more yelling of "CABS ARE HEEEERE!"

Nicole 'Snooki' Polizzi talks at Rutgers for $32,000 about what it takes to be Snooki

Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi, isn't cheap, just ask Rutgers University, which was charged $32,000 this week for an on-campus appearance by the "Jersey Shore" star.

Students complained about whether it was a wise use of the school's money and perhaps it could have found a better entertainer than Snooki, but 1,000-plus people still showed up Thursday to hear the MTV reality star in a Q-and-A at the Livingston Student Center.  

"The students canvassed for who they wanted here and had the funds available," Rutgers spokesman Steve Manas told Reuters. The money came from the university's Programming Assn.'s mandatory student activity fees.

Even Pulitzer Prize-winning author Toni Morrison cost $2,000 less when she's set to speak at the New Brunswick, N.J., university's commencement ceremony May 15.

First the SATs ask about reality television, then the Snooks gets berated for essentially putting on a show (not teaching a class, people). So much for higher education.

Reports indicated the self-proclaimed meatball and Wrestlemania headliner talked about her hair, fist pumps and, of course, GTL. (For the uninitiated, that's "gym, tan, laundry.") Her advice to students: Study hard, but party harder. Watch a video of students fist-pumping on stage below.

"The poof is its own living form, it's my trademark but people always expect it," she said. "It's a summer hairstyle, so if I want to Snook the night, I'll wear the poof."

Snooki went to school to be a veterinary tech before appearing on the hit reality show, which just wrapped its third season. The fourth season is set to tape in Italy, where cameras will follow her, Pauly D and company as they go back to their ancestors' homeland. 

"If I'm ever annoyed at the camera, I'll spray hairspray for five years," she said. "The only real way to get away from the camera is showering, so we take really long showers."

Sound advice for aspiring reality stars, no?

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Photo: Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi participates in a Wrestlemania XXVII press conference at the Hard Rock Cafe on Wednesday in New York.  Credit: Evan Agostini / Associated Press

Snooki wrestles like a pro on 'WWE Monday Night Raw'

Snooki has taken her "guidette" antics into the wrestling ring, body-slamming "WWE Monday Night Raw" wrestlers boardwalk-style.

We believe she finally realized she didn't get this famous for being classy.

Wearing a leopard blazer, booty shorts and knee-high boots ringside, Snooki, a.k.a. Nicole Polizzi, was challenged by wrestler Michelle McCool, who is nearly a foot taller. McCool shoved the "Jersey Shore" star, and Snooki, without saying a world, launched her little meatball self into the ring to body slam Layla, another wrestler. Snooki grabbed Layla's hair and banged her head against the mat -- likely taking out her frustration over being punched in the face and being done so wrong by so many un-cuddle-friendly guys at the shore house.

The pro wrestlers scrambled out of the ring in shock as Snooki primped between poundings.

"You think that this is a nightclub on a boardwalk, little girl?" asked WWE star Vickie Guererro, who then challenged Snooki to compete in Wrestlemania XXVII on April 3.

"I will see you there, baby," Snooki said.

Well, if selling books and Snooki slippers doesn't work out for her, she's always got that low center of gravity to fall back on. And who wouldn't pay cash money to see Snooki versus the Rock? Hey, it could happen.

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