Nicole Polizzi aka Snooki – Was 21
The super fans will remember that when ‘Jersey Shore’ first began, the other housemates didn’t particularly like Snooki, the then 21-year-old. But one intense moment at a night club (where else?) changed everything. An (ex)-gym teacher punched her in the face, and the outrage was national, turning the guy into a villain. I mean, who does that?
Source: NBC Philadelphia
After that incident, the housemates and America as a whole were on Team Snooki. She then became a celebrity in her own right, and everything she said was instantly quotable, like “Where’s the beach,” and “Meatball problems.” She loved to hang out with her girls and have fun on the boardwalk. The one thing she didn’t enjoy doing down there was working at the shore shop, and that didn’t really change throughout the six seasons this show aired.