Rapids Water to Jersey Shore: Take a hike!
Riviera Beach’s Rapids Water Park is the latest in a lengthening list of South Florida businesses that banned MTV’s Jersey Shore from filming on their properties.
And Page2Live knows why!
I got a hold of the location contract that the producers of the hit show are trying to shove down the throats of business owners before the reality series’ self-professed goombas are allowed into restaurants, clubs and hotels — and it explains a lot.
I’m told the contract alone — not the stereotyping of Italian-Americans and blatant sexism as it has been said — has been shutting doors to the show throughout the area as filming for Season 2 started in Miami Beach last week.
The document basically gives Snooki, JWoww, The Situation and the others the right to do anything they want on a property whose owner gives up the right to hold producers, Double Guns LLC and MTV, liable for any damages.
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Even better: “For dramatic purposes, (producers) may make certain misrepresentations to you and others,” the contract reads. “The Project may lead to emotional strains and pressures on you, your business, your friends, your co-workers and family.
“Your actions and the actions of others displayed in the Project may be disparaging, embarrassing or of an otherwise unfavorable nature and may expose you, your business, your friends, your co-workers and/or your family to public ridicule, humiliation or condemnation.”
Sounds like a disclaimer for sleeping pills, doesn’t it?
Rapids Water Park was contacted recently to allow the cast and crew to spend a day there.
Park spokeswoman Tina Hatcher said the publicity would have been nice. Still, she said thanks, but no thanks!
“The contract gives them the right to do whatever they want, including breaking things, trashing the place, and there’s nothing we could do,” she said. “That’s too much of a risk.”
And then, there was concern about the presence in a family environment of cast members known to duke it out often with members of the public.
Jersey Shore producer Bryan Johnson didn’t return calls.
So far, Shore has been rejected from the W Hotel, the Mondrian, the Shore Club, the Delano and others in Miami Beach.


