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"Jersey Shore star Vinny Guadagnino has said that he needed to &amp;quot;take care of himself&amp;quot; during filming for the new season of the MTV show. Trailers for the upcoming fifth season of the show - which premieres Thursday (January 5) on MTV - tease that Guadagnino will depart the show in some capacity this season, although it is unclear if he will then return.   Speaking during a cast appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live, Guadagnino remained tight-lipped on the circumstances surrounded his apparent departure, saying only: &amp;quot;I had some personal problems I had to go through in the beginning.&amp;quot; Jersey Shore&amp;#039;s fourth season saw the cast relocating to Florence, Italy for the summer, before immediately returning to Seaside Heights to begin filming the fifth season.  Guadagnino continued: &amp;quot;We all kind of had trouble because the schedule was so crazy going right from Italy to Jersey, filming 24 hours a day. It got real for me a little bit and I had to take care of myself, but you&amp;#039;ll see a good thing ended up coming out of it.&amp;quot; The Situation added: &amp;quot;It was a big shock to us because if anybody was going to leave it was definitely not Vinny. He was the voice of reason in the house.&amp;quot; Pauly D then joked: &amp;quot;You don&amp;#039;t realize what you&amp;#039;ve got until it&amp;#039;s gone!&amp;quot;  As for whether fans can expect a sixth season of Jersey Shore, the cast said they would be interested as long as the viewers wanted it.  Watch the Jersey Shore boys talking on Jimmy Kimmel below:                 "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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