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“Jersey Show,” which is reportedly putting $10,000 or more per week in Nicole “Snookie” Polizzi’s purse, will return for its second season this summer, MTV revealed Saturday.

MTV reportedly had considered following the “Real World” model and just hiring a new crop of fighty East Coast underachievers for season two, but have instead opted to go the “Hills” route and stick with the same housemates season-to-season.

Because MTV wants to start shooting right away -- and because the male members of the cast would freeze to death if they kept wearing their bikinis and board shorts during the New Jersey winter -- the plan is to move the whole cast to someplace warmer for the shoot.

No word on whether we’ll seen the return of the forgotten eighth housemate, Staten Island bartender Angelina Pivarnick, who was evicted from the shore house in episode three but returned for the reunion show.

“Jersey Shore” was easily MTV’s top-rated series during its 9-episode December-January run. Its Jan. 21 season finale lured 4.8 million viewers.

The "Jersey" finale hit a 2.6 in 18-49, bigger than any episode of anything that ran on The CW this season, and bigger than any episode of anything on cable this season save ESPN's "Monday Night Football."

Find all of The Hollywood Reporter’s story on the matter here.