In an interview with TooFab, the fact star teased what followers can anticipate to see from the brand new season, by which he and his co-stars — Pauly “DJ Pauly D” Delvecchio, Vinny Guadagnino, Angelina Pivarnick, Jenni “JWoww” Farley, Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi, Deena Nicole Cortese, Samantha “Sammi Sweetheart” Giancola and Ronnie Ortiz-Magro — return to the OG shore home in Seaside Heights, New Jersey.

“I imply, to say that this season is a ten, this season is a ten,” Mike stated when requested to price the season from one to 10 — ten being probably the most chaotic and dysfunctional. “What’s nice is you get to see how we navigate by way of it, you already know, and in addition to say that we’ve got a state of affairs. We certainly have a state of affairs this season, for certain.”

The 42-year-old named himself because the peacekeeper of Season 8, and defined why.

“I feel that I all the time attempt to maintain the peace,” Mike stated. “You recognize, I am all the time doing the sit-downs. You recognize, I am all the time attempting to be the glue to this household, and see how we will push this household downstream in order that we will make extra recollections, and make this present final, as a result of if persons are simply at odds with one another, you already know, you simply by no means know. Any individual may stop. Simply to be trustworthy with you. These guys are very unpredictable.”

As for who followers can anticipate to see beginning probably the most drama, Mike named Angelina, however famous that “generally individuals say it is me.” He then added, “However should you do not stir the pot, sauce is gonna burn, proper?”

The daddy of three famous that there’s a “fantastic line” between sustaining the peace in the home and calling his associates out on their conduct.

“It’s a fantastic line to be conserving the peace to additionally stating one thing that could be misplaced, and I am very well-known for pointing issues which are type of out of the place,” Miike advised TooFab. “I’ve a nickname known as the Investigation, and once in a while, we obtained to convey out the boards.”

As proven within the epic trailer for Jersey Shore Household Trip Season 8, the crew took a gaggle journey to Jamaica — and in line with Mike, the journey introduced its fair proportion of drama, to no shock.

“It is positively a very good present, you already know?” he stated. “There is not any quick[age] of drama, let’s assume, yeah. And once more, the solid, though they’re household, any person’s all the time at odds with any person, you already know, about one thing. And subsequent factor you already know, you bought conflict, and so and so is doing this, and so and so is quitting. It is simply, it is actually loopy. I actually cannot inform you guys an excessive amount of.”

“However I do say that after we go overseas, issues begin to go sideways,” he added.

As followers know, Mike discovered himself entangled with authorized troubles previously, and served eight months in jail for tax evasion in 2019. Within the wake of his expenses, he was beforehand pressured to give up his passport, and final yr, he was lastly permitted to journey internationally, with him and his spouse, Lauren Sorrentino, taking the chance to make a journey to Italy.

And as proven within the new season, Mike and his Jersey Shore crew had been in a position to make a journey collectively abroad for the primary time.

“We’ve not been in a position to journey overseas for about you already know, at the least a decade, as a result of Uncle Sam had taken away my passport,” he advised TooFab. “You recognize, we had slightly little bit of a state of affairs, issues budgeting, and so forth. So we solved these conditions, and we obtained the passport again. And now we’re in a position to journey freely by way of the cabin.”

Mike additionally weighed in on one other thrilling second teased within the trailer: Exes Ronnie and Sammi presumably making peace as soon as and for all.

“Pay attention, I am a fan with regards to the present, and a few of the solid members, so [the] dynamic between Ron and Sam has been fairly particular to be trustworthy with you,” he shared. “It is truly a sight to see, a sight to behold, as a result of we by no means thought they’d even be beneath the identical roof.”

“And now, for this season, you see a few of these interactions. You are like, ‘Oh, we obtained a state of affairs!’ You recognize? So that you guys are gonna should test it out,” he added. “I am very, very happy with each of them. You recognize, due to how far we have come and the story that we do have, and it is our fifteenth anniversary. So it is fairly cool to see.”

The trailer for Season 8 additionally revealed Mike rocking a brand new coiffure — and getting jokingly grilled by his associates, who convey up a rumor that he obtained “hair plugs.”

“Effectively, you already know, it appears that evidently I’ve a enterprise within the entrance and social gathering within the again proper now,” he stated when TooFab introduced up the second. “However hear, a gentleman by no means tells. You recognize I can not verify or deny, however shout out to my physician, Dr. Mike in Tinton Falls, New Jersey. Wonderful man.”

“I all the time attempt to, you already know, convey one thing new each season, whether or not it is a haircut or a brand new venture that I am engaged on. You are solely nearly as good as your final present,” he added. “And, boy, have we had some wonderful reveals now that being our fifteenth anniversary.”

Jersey Shore Household Trip premieres Thursday, Might twenty ninth at 8 p.m. ET/PT on MTV.