Sammi “Sweetheart” Giancola says Ronnie Ortiz-Magro feels more like a colleague than an ex-boyfriend as she makes her return to the new season of “Jersey Shore Family Vacation.”
“It’s just like a co-worker at this point,” Giancola tells Page Six’s Evan Real and Danny Murphy as part of our new video series, “24 Hours.”
After taking an 11-year hiatus from the hit MTV show, Giancola gushes that she’s “personally in a great place” after reuniting with Ortiz-Magro, with whom she had a tumultuous five-year relationship.
“I’m kind of, like, moved on from that vibe. Yeah. You know what I mean? Like that vibe. So I kind of do my own thing and, like, keep it at that,” she says of her ex.
While she keeps tight-lipped on her interactions with her ex, she says she “wish[es] him the best” as long as “whatever he’s doing is positive.”
Ortiz-Magro, 37, also returned to the show in a reduced role after a brief hiatus to focus on his sobriety and mental health.
“A lot of people forget I dated him when I was in my younger 20s,” she points out. “I’m 36, I dated multiple people after him, I’ve gone through life, so yeah it’s just like a co-worker at this point.”
Giancola gave the show another chance after becoming “more mature” and having the ability to “handle situations differently than when I was 22 years old.”
“I’m just hoping that all goes well this time around. And if it doesn’t,” she says with a laugh, “I’ll just leave again.”
Giancola and Ortiz-Magro had a volatile relationship when they dated on-and-off for five years before calling it quits for good in 2014.
The reality TV alum was persuaded to return to the “Jersey Shore” spin-off by Angelina Pivarnick.
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“I like that I was actually able to pull it off and everybody else couldn’t,” Pivarnick, 37, boasts, referring to other cast members attempting and failing to get Giancola to come back. “She and I always had a bond.”
Giancola admits that her return to the show was “definitely overwhelming,” and she couldn’t help but ask herself, “What am I doing? What am I getting myself into?”
Despite her decade-long absence, Giancola gushes that as soon as she began filming, it felt “like I never left.”
“It just feels good to be back in that environment, having fun with everybody,” she tells us. “I really enjoyed bonding with the girls again. That was a cross off my checklist, because I really missed out on those friendships for so long.”
“Jersey Shore Family Vacation” Season 6B premieres Thursday at 8 p.m. ET on MTV.