9.
In
season
one,
the
cast
really
did
work
at
the
T-shirt
shop,
with
Vinny
telling
Vulture, “We
did
the
first
season
for
nothing,
zero
dollars,
except
whatever
we
made
at
the
Shore
Store.”
10.
Shop
owner
Danny
Merk
even
revealed
their
salary
to
Vulture: “They
started
off
at
$10
an
hour,
then
it
went
to
$15,
and
then
I
think
I
gave
them
20
bucks
an
hour
at
the
very
end.”
The
hardest
worker?
If
you
asked
Merk,
he’d
say
Pauly
D,
with
Jenni
and
Sammi
proving
talented
at
the
cash
register.
Meanwhile,
he
says
the
worst
employees
were
the
Situation
and
Snooki.
11.
After
the
monster
success
of
the
first
season,
the
cast
reportedly
got
a
major
pay
raise,
earning
$10,000
per
episode,
per
the
New
York
Daily
News.
By
the
series’
end
in
2012,
they
were
bringing
in
$100,000
per
ep,
according
to
The
Hollywood
Reporter.
12.
Ever
wonder
where
GTL
came
from?
You
can
thank
production,
who
found
the
cast’s
daily
routine
of
going
to
the
gym,
hitting
the
tanning
salon
and
doing
laundry
so
tedious
and
mundane
they
were
afraid
they
didn’t
have
a
show.
“We
were
writing
on
a
dry-erase
board—because
we
always
were
like, ‘OK,
so-and-so
went
here,
so-and-so
went
here’—and
every
day
we’d
write ‘gym,
tanning,
laundry,'”
Salsano
revealed
to
Vulture. “Then
we
got
lazy
and
just
started
writing ‘GTL.'”
Celebrity Fails
