Tragedia: Florence Pulls ‘Jersey Shore’ Filming Permits

by Alex Alvarez | 11:34 am, May 9th, 2011

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Florence, Italy – very obviously a city with no sense of culture – has decided to pull filming permits for the fourth season of MTV’s Jersey Shore. The show’s castmembers – a group of self-described “guidos” of at least partial Italian descent – were informed of the decision as they were heading to the airport for their flight to Italy. They decided to remain in the States until everything is sorted out.

The city’s mayor decided to reverse his previous decision to allow the cast and crew to film at the famed Uffizi art gallery, the Boboli Gardens, and the Palazzo Vecchio. The city had previously banned the show from filming the cast drinking publicly or in any of the city’s bars or clubs

Florence is likely afraid of what the frequently alcohol-soaked cast might do for the historical city’s image. And, if recent comments by the show’s executive producer are anything to go by, their fear is warranted:

It’ll be crazy. The kids are excited, they’re ready to go. Barely anyone speaks the language, so it’ll be a perfect storm of I don’t know what. Lord only knows. I mean, I have a hard enough time in Miami and Jersey with us communicating with people, I can’t imagine all of us in a foreign country.

Charming.

h/t Pat’s Papers

Filming Permits, Florence, Italy, Jersey Shore, MTV

errxn

Good job, Florence. Now, if only the shore of New Jersey would follow suit….
skyfet

They have class in Florence, maybe they might need to find another city.
RhapsodyinBlue

Can we just send them to Gitmo and be done with them for good?
Barack Must Go

Just don’t send them back to New Jersey is all I ask. Maybe this year they could ‘ take a walk on the wild side ‘ on Fire Island or possibly out on the TIP of Cape Cod’s , Provincetown. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKlKJeeIfsU&feature=related
mlb

Can’t we just send them to Pakistan or Afghan. and see what happens?
20 minutes with Snooki & Co. and the Taliban may start killing themselves. Our secret weapons of destruction.
Lolwut

Why would the cast want to go to Florence with all those restrictions in the first place? Just pick any big city in America with tons of clubs and you’ve got your next season already mapped out.
http://www.swissarmyjew.com Keeva

mlb said:
Can’t we just send them to Pakistan or Afghan. and see what happens?
20 minutes with Snooki & Co. and the Taliban may start killing themselves. Our secret weapons of destruction.

I like it. I think Pakistan deserves them most. I can not think of a more fitting punishment for them than 13 weeks of Snooki.
koos de la rey

errxn said:
Good job, Florence. Now, if only the shore of New Jersey would follow suit….

Don’t be silly! Florence is full of Italians N.J. is full of “guidos”.
Montecore

mlb said:
Can’t we just send them to Pakistan or Afghan. and see what happens?20 minutes with Snooki & Co. and the Taliban may start killing themselves. Our secret weapons of destruction.

That is some great brainstorming mlb and is a great way to solve two problems in this country!
trica

Danm I thought that woman in the picture for this was black.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Joe-Moreno/100001470599241 Joe Moreno

Oh well, I hope this will enable this disaster of a show to get canceled…..
Nacho

On a similar note, I heard Glenn Beck has been kicked out of Israel.
http://www.snowspot.net Snowspot

mlb said:
Can’t we just send them to Pakistan or Afghan. and see what happens?
20 minutes with Snooki & Co. and the Taliban may start killing themselves. Our secret weapons of destruction.

Have snooki show them what she does with pickles, there will be no taliban after that day.
mlb

Snowspot said:
Have snooki show them what she does with pickles, there will be no taliban after that day.

hehe. so true- although the girls of the Shore sure make a good case for the Bhurka.