{"id":26904,"date":"2019-07-12T07:27:36","date_gmt":"2019-07-12T13:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1056293"},"modified":"2019-07-12T07:27:36","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T13:27:36","slug":"pauly-d-says-mike-the-situation-sorrentino-is-happy-positive-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/music-news\/pauly-d-says-mike-the-situation-sorrentino-is-happy-positive-in-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"Pauly D Says Mike &#8220;The Situation&#8221; Sorrentino Is &#8220;Happy, Positive&#8221; in Prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2019612\/rs_600x600-190712060348-600-Mike-Sorrentino-Pauly-D-LT-071219-GettyImages-1021995364.jpg?fit=around|600:467&amp;crop=600:467;center,top&amp;output-quality=90\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"35.173304628633\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"20.099031216362\">\n<p>While&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/mike_the_situation_sorrentino\">Mike &#8220;The Situation&#8221; Sorrentino<\/a><\/strong> is not partying at the Jersey Shore this summer, the star is keeping his head up while in prison.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>During an appearance on&nbsp;<em>Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen<\/em>, Sorrentino&#8217;s famous castmate&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/pauly_d\">Pauly D<\/a><\/strong> dished on the reality star&#8217;s time behind bars.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s doing really well,&#8221; the DJ divulged. &#8220;I went there to visit him and I thought they were going to basically strip search me and stuff like that\u2014wasn&#8217;t the case.&#8221;<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Pauly described, &#8220;It was very laid-back.&#8221; As for his friend, &#8220;He&#8217;s happy, positive&#8230;He&#8217;s just so happy to get it over with and he just wants to come out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Back <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/974088\/mike-the-situation-sorrentino-sentenced-to-8-months-in-prison\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in October 2018<\/a>, the MTV star was sentenced to eight months in prison after pleading guilty to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/907285\/mike-the-situation-sorrentino-pleads-guilty-in-tax-fraud-case\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">one count of tax evasion in January<\/a>. A month after his sentencing, he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/982636\/mike-the-situation-sorrentino-is-married-inside-the-jersey-shore-star-s-wedding\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">married his longtime girlfriend<\/a>&nbsp;<strong>Lauren Pesce<\/strong> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1000753\/mike-the-situation-sorrentino-begins-his-prison-sentence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">turned himself in to authorities<\/a> to begin his prison sentence the following January.&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"59\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"8\">\n<p>&#8220;He sees Lauren like every week,&#8221; Pauly D noted. &#8220;He&#8217;s almost done.&#8221; The star will hit eight months in prison in September. After serving time, the Sitch will have&nbsp;two years of supervised release, as well as 500 hours of community service and a $10,000 fine to be paid.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"57.469344608879\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"12.14799154334\">\n<p>During the chat,&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/andy_cohen\">Andy Cohen<\/a><\/strong> also wondered if Pauly saw infamous <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1009672\/facing-the-fyre-what-the-people-involved-with-netflix-and-hulu-s-fyre-festival-documentaries-are-currently-up-to#photo-973328\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fyre Festival founder<\/a> <strong>Billy McFarland<\/strong>&nbsp;when he visited.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I did!&#8221; he confirmed. &#8220;It was cool. He was with his family visiting.&#8221;<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&#8220;I&#8217;m like, This is so weird. We&#8217;re at picnic tables outside,&#8221; the reality star recalled. &#8220;You picture jail bars and cells and guys with guns\u2014I feel like they could have took my phone. I had a phone on me, everything.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(E! and Bravo are both part of the NBCUniversal family.)<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1056293\/pauly-d-says-mike-the-situation-sorrentino-is-happy-positive-in-prison?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While&nbsp;Mike &#8220;The Situation&#8221; Sorrentino is not partying at the Jersey Shore this summer, the star is keeping his head up while in prison.&nbsp; During an appearance on&nbsp;Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen, Sorrentino&#8217;s famous castmate&nbsp;Pauly D dished on the reality star&#8217;s time behind bars.&nbsp; &#8220;He&#8217;s doing really well,&#8221; the DJ divulged. &#8220;I went there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-13 16:48:03","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIFT - The LIFT FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}