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Report: MTV gives 'Jersey Shore' cast take-it-or-leave-it deal deadline

By Reality TV World staff, 01/25/2010

MTV has reportedly told Jersey Shore's cast to accept its latest contract offer or it will film the reality show's second season without them.

The network has given the cast members -- who have been negotiating en masse in an attempt to strengthen their bargaining power and prevent MTV from doing another Jersey Shore season with only some of them -- until the end of business Monday to accept its latest offer, according to TMZ.

In addition, MTV has also reportedly told the cast it is not requiring everyone to agree to the offer -- which would pay each cast member $10,000 an episode for a 12-episode second season of Jersey Shore -- and any individual cast member is welcome to accept the deal.

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"Cast members who accept the offer will stay... those who do not can have a nice life," TMZ reported.

MTV reportedly made the $10,000 an episode offer after the cast -- which is already technically under a contractual hold to the network for another year due to their first season contract -- rejected an earlier offer that would have paid them a $10,000 signing bonus and $5,000 an episode.

Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino and Pauly "Pauly D" Delvecchio are being the most difficult during the negotiations, according to TMZ, however MTV is reportedly willing to film Jersey Shore's second season with a mix of new and returning cast members.

"Finding obnoxious, pushy, trash-talking idiots who want to be on TV is as easy as falling off a log," an unidentified MTV executive told the Chicago Sun-Times in a Monday report that claimed the network believes the cast is "totally replaceable" and has let the show's "popularity go to their heads."

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