JWoww Says Snooki 'Left the Group Chat' Because She Was 'So Mad' About Having to MissDexter: Original SinPremiere (Exclusive)

Mar. 15, 2025

Jenni ‘JWoww’ Farley attends Dexter: Original Sin Premiere at SVA on December 11, 2024 in New York City.Photo:Roy Rochlin/Getty

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Jenni “JWoww” Farleyisn’t mad aboutNicole “Snooki” Polizziremoving herself from their group chat.

PEOPLE spoke to theJersey Shorealum, 38, at theDexter: Original Sinpremiere at the SVA Theater in New York on Wednesday, Dec. 11, and she explained that motherhood took priority over Snooki’s plans for their night out.

JWoww, who said she watched the 8-season drama “in real time” when it first debuted in 2006, “fell in love” with Dexter Morgan — the Miami-based blood splatter expert who not only helped solve murders, but secretly committed them, too.

Jenni “JWoww” Farley at “Dexter: Original Sin” Premiere, December 2024.Kristina Bumphrey/Variety via Getty

Kristina Bumphrey/Variety via Getty

Since then, she’s gother fiancé, professional wrestlerZack Clayton Carpinello, hooked on the murder mystery series.

“And then I got to watch it again because I introduced it to Snookie, Nicole,” JWoww told PEOPLE on the red carpet.

“Now the fact that we get to watch the origin story? I’m so excited,” she continued.

According to JWoww, if both friends could have been at the premiere together on Wednesday, they would have been “screaming” while they watched.

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The television personality then explained Snooki’s absence.

“Her son Angelo is sick,” JWoww said of the 5-year-old.

Snooki shares Angelo James with husbandJionni LaValle. The couple are alsoparents toson Lorenzo Dominic, 11, and daughter Giovanna Marie, 10.

“I felt so bad, she texted me [at] like 2 o’clock today, like, ‘I am so mad,’ ” JWoww told PEOPLE. “She even — she’s gonna kill me for saying this — she left the group chat because she was so mad. She’s like, ‘Bye, I can’t know any spoilers.' ”

While the original series sawMichael C. Hallas the lead, the 53-year-old actor will assume the title of “narrator” for the prequel in which Patrick Gibson becomes his younger version, explaining how his serial killer ways came to be.

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Per an official synopsis, Dexter’s “bloodthirsty urges can’t be ignored any longer,” so the student “must learn to channel his inner darkness.”

He does so with the guidance of his father Harry (Christian Slater), who helps “him find and kill people who deserve to be eliminated from society without getting on law enforcement’s radar.”

However, things get tricky for young Dexter when he starts a forensics internship at the Miami Metro Police Department.

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The cast also includesSarah Michelle Gellar,Christina MilianandPatrick Dempsey.

Dexter: Original Sin, premieres on Paramount+ with Showtime on Friday, Dec. 13.

source: people.com