An entire timeline of the tumultuous relationship between 'Jersey Shore' stars Sammi 'Sweetheart' Giancola and Ronnie Ortiz-Magro

• Sammi “Sweetheart” Giancola and Ronnie Ortiz-Magro had a dramatic relationship on “Jersey Shore.” 
• The couple broke up and acquired again collectively quite a few occasions over the present’s unique run. 
• Here is a timeline of Giancola and Ortiz-Magro’s tumultuous relationship. 

Few {couples} have captivated actuality TV audiences like Sammi “Sweetheart” Giancola and Ronnie Ortiz-Magro did on the unique “Jersey Shore.” The on-again, off-again relationship made for some unforgettable moments on TV, most notably the notorious “Letter to Sammi.”

However Ortiz-Magro has confronted allegations of home violence towards subsequent companions in recent times, and rewatching his onscreen relationship with Giancola steadily devolve into explosive and violent arguments is uncomfortable, to say the least.

Here is a timeline of Giancola’s and Ortiz-Magro’s tumultuous relationship on “Jersey Shore.”

Giancola and Ortiz-Magro started courting throughout the first season of the hit actuality collection, which aired in late 2009

After a short flirtation with Mike “The Scenario” Sorrentino, Giancola started courting Ortiz-Magro, a lot to Sorrentino’s disappointment.

Nearly from the beginning, the couple’s relationship was strained, largely due to Ortiz-Magro’s penchant for going out and ingesting closely at nightclubs with Sorrentino and fellow castmates Vinny Guadagnino, Jenni “Jwoww” Farley, and Paul “DJ Pauly D” Delvecchio. 

Ortiz-Magro would steadily flirt with different ladies throughout nights out even after he and Giancola turned official, one thing that everybody else in the home was conscious about. He additionally spent an evening in jail throughout the first season, however the season ended with Giancola and Ortiz-Magro leaving the home as a pair. 

They stayed collectively by way of the yr, however an on-air spat throughout the reunion particular led to their first breakup

Per HollywoodLife, the argument in query occurred after a clip was proven throughout the January 2010 reunion taping of Giancola confiding in Sorrentino about flirting with a policeman. Ortiz-Magro then started berating Giancola and threatening to go away her, regardless that Giancola stated the flirtation happened “early on” earlier than they have been a pair.

Because the solid and crew appeared on, Giancola informed them that she was ending issues with Ortiz-Magro, and walked off the set crying. 

Each Giancola and Ortiz-Magro have been single once they started filming the second season in spring 2010

The second season of the hit present happened in Miami as a substitute of New Jersey. However the drama that characterised Giancola and Ortiz-Magro’s relationship in season one continued in Florida once they acquired again collectively quickly after filming started. 

Regardless of sleeping in Giancola’s mattress each night, Ortiz-Magro was proven within the second season flirting with ladies frequently throughout nights out, and even getting one girl’s telephone quantity. Whereas his male castmates declined to deliver up the topic to Giancola, Farley and Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi determined to let her know what was occurring through an nameless notice. 

“Sam, the primary night time at BED whenever you left, Ron made out with 2 ladies and put his head inbetween a cocktail waitresses breasts. Additionally was grinding with a number of fats ladies,” the notice learn partly. 

After detailing one other alleged occasion of infidelity, the now-iconic letter concludes: “A number of folks in the home know, subsequently you need to know the reality.” 

Finally, Giancola broke issues off with Ortiz-Magro after discovering the notice. Nonetheless, she later went head-to-head with Farley over the letter, which finally led to a bodily altercation between the 2 ladies. 

Giancola and Ortiz-Magro in the end ended the second season on a excessive notice, and continued courting all through filming of the present’s third season

Giancola and Ortiz-Magro proved inseparable originally of the third season (which as soon as once more happened in Seaside Heights, New Jersey) however quickly fell again into acquainted patterns of arguing. Halfway by way of the season, which aired in 2011, they broke up after a very nasty combat, resulting in rising stress in the home.

Ortiz-Magro was subsequently so aggravated by the breakup that he tried to destroy Giancola’s belongings by throwing them on the porch — together with the mattress she was standing on throughout the altercation. Giancola later determined to go away the shore home, and was absent for just a few episodes. 

The couple tried to patch issues up after their blowout combat, however Ortiz-Magro’s paranoia that Giancola was dishonest on him meant that they ended the season each single. 

In the course of the fourth season in Florence, Italy, Giancola and Ortiz-Magro continued so far on and off

As in earlier seasons, Ortiz-Magro’s conduct throughout nights out, in addition to his suspicion that Giancola was being untrue, brought on severe issues within the couple’s dynamic throughout the group’s time in Europe. Nonetheless, like in earlier episodes, the 2 acquired again collectively virtually as quickly as they broke up, a lot to the consternation of their roommates. 

When the unique collection led to 2012, the couple have been collectively

Regardless that that they had yet one more combat throughout the collection finale, Giancola and Ortiz-Magro have been nonetheless hopeful for his or her future, and later walked out collectively throughout the dwell reunion taping in December 2012. 

However Leisure Weekly’s Darren Franich reported on the time that when requested in the event that they have been nonetheless collectively by the reunion host, Ortiz-Magro made a joke about how there was nonetheless time for the connection to finish throughout the taping. 

The couple later walked the purple carpet on the MTV Video Music Awards, which happened in August 2013 in Brooklyn, ostensibly nonetheless collectively at that time.

By 2014, that they had damaged up for good

Ortiz-Magro informed Folks in August that yr that he and Giancola had merely drifted “aside” and weren’t “actually spending any time collectively.” 

Per Ortiz-Magro, they formally known as off the connection in June 2014. 

“I nonetheless care about her. She’s an amazing lady, however we have been rising distant. It was for the perfect,” he stated on the time. 

When ‘Jersey Shore Household Trip’ premiered in 2018, Giancola was notably absent

The revival of the favored actuality present follows the older solid as they proceed to take drama-filled journeys collectively, albeit this time with spouses and youngsters.

And whereas the entire different unique solid members returned for the brand new iteration, Giancola did not — a call her costar Deena Buckner (née Cortese) informed Insider in July 2023 was possible as a result of the truth that she did not need to be close to her former boyfriend. 

“Particularly if Ronnie was round — she did not need Ronnie round, and for some time Ronnie was round,” Buckner stated of the dynamic between the 2 exes years after their last breakup. 

Giancola and Ortiz-Magro will reunite on the sixth season of ‘Household Trip’

Giancola’s long-awaited return to the franchise coincides with Ortiz-Magro coming again after taking a while away to concentrate on his psychological well being. 

Whereas it is unclear if or when the 2 exes will face one another, their castmates informed Insider it is a large change to have each Giancola and Ortiz-Magro again once more. 

“There’s positively combined emotions with regards to that, and also you’re coping with a really difficult scenario, a really delicate scenario,” Sorrentino stated of the previous couple’s simultaneous return to the present. “So you bought to see how we navigate that… what we did when Ron and Sam have been beneath the identical roof on the similar time.” 

“Jersey Shore: Household Trip” premieres Thursday on MTV.