The rumor has develop into an thrilling actuality.

On Saturday, MTV confirmed that Sammi “Sweetheart” Giancola will return to the franchise that made her well-known, greater than 10 years after departing Jersey Shore.

“She’s nonetheless the sweetest bitch you’ll ever meet,” the official collection account wrote on March 11 together with a digicam emoji.

“@sammisweetheart #JSFamilyVacation.”

A day later?

“OK, I can lastly say … I’m backkkk!” the 35-year previous herself captioned an Instagram selfie publish … whereas tagging the official Jersey Shore Instagram account.

Sammi was a part of the unique incarnation of Jersey Shore on MTV from 2009 to 2012, however then she opted out of showing within the sequel collection, which premiered in 2018.

On the time, she took to Instagram to say she was having fun with her life freed from the cameras and needed “to keep away from probably poisonous conditions.”

She was largely recognized again in her small display heyday for being concerned in a curler coaster romance with co-star Ronnie.

In line with certainly one of Sammi’s forged members final yr, lots of her buddies had been working onerous to convey her again to the beloved program.

“We tried to get her again like two years in the past, all of us texting her saying, ‘Come for one dinner. Why not?’” Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi instructed E! Information in September 2022.

“And she or he’s simply all the time like, ‘No, I’ll by no means try this present once more.’

“We didn’t wish to push it.”

“I’ve chosen to not be part of the present this season as a result of I’m at a very totally different place in my life proper now specializing in my companies and relationship,” the New Jersey native wrote through Instagram in March 2018.

“I’m not the identical particular person as I used to be after I was 22.

“At 31, I’m at present extraordinarily completely satisfied in each side of my life and wish to keep away from probably TOXIC SITUATIONS.”

Sammi didn’t refer particularly to Ronnie on the time, however most observers assumed she was citing their difficult relationship through this message.

“It’s been 10 years,” Snooki added in September when requested in regards to the trauma of Ronnie’s habits on Sammi.

“In some unspecified time in the future, you’re each moved on. Simply come have enjoyable. Come again to the present that was our life. I imply, we’re nonetheless doing it.”

What made Sammi come round and seemingly see issues from this vantage level?

We will’t say for the time being.

She beforehand expressed how a lot she was having fun with a drama-free life away from the highlight.

“I’m at present extraordinarily completely satisfied in each side of my life and wish to keep away from probably poisonous conditions,” she wrote on Instagram again in March 2018.

“It was a tough determination as I really like my roomies. I’ve determined to give attention to me, my future and what actually makes me completely satisfied.”

Jersey Shore: Household Trip airs Thursday nights at 8/7c on MTV.