Despite constantly bagging on each other, Angelina and Vinny did hook up during Season 2 of Jersey Shore. During Seasons 5 and 6, they begin to get flirty again, but ultimately Vinny gave a firm no to the idea of them dating. “Everybody wants that,” he previously told ET. “Absolutely no. I mean, she's cool, but nah. There's no romantic connection there.”

Furthermore, during a Season 7 episode of Jersey Shore: Family Vacation that aired in 2024, Angelina surprised everyone by sharing how she and Mike went out on four dates and hooked up a few times before the OG Jersey Shore was filmed in 2009.

In Mike's memoir, he reflected on the fact that he and Angelina kept it quiet to MTV that they did know each other before being cast for the show. "[We] thought that would hurt the chances of being on a show that was, like, anonymous or something — you know, like, ‘Oh, all these people in the house, and everybody doesn’t know each other,'" he explained.