'Jersey Shore Family Vacation': Get set for Nikki vs. Angelina, but no Ronnie, in Season 5

Nikki Hall is stepping up and spilling the wine on the second half of “Jersey Shore Family Vacation” Season 5.

Spilling the wine on Angelina Pivarnick's head, that is.

A teaser for the second half of Season 5, which aired during the debut on Thursday, June 23, showed Nikki spilling what appears to be a bottle of wine on Angelina after she locked Nikki and DJ Pauly DelVecchio in a room in San Diego in the midst of a brush up. What the conflagration was about was not clear, but Angelina (more on her later) didn't seem happy about her drenching.

Nikki's spill seems to indicate she will have a larger role this part of the season. On Thursday's episode, she noshed with Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi and Jenn “JWoww” Farley at an eatery in Cranford, and she took a trip with Lauren Sorrentino while Pauly D and Vinny Guadagnino dyed the hair of her husband, Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino, blond.

Nikki also accompanied beau Pauly D to his gig playing Madison Square Garden in January in between periods of a Rangers game. Nikki wore a skin-tight white dress with a bobbed haircut. Pauly D wore a Rangers jersey, jeans and gold chains.

“The time I first deejayed at Karma, I had to beg in order to spin,” Pauly D said. “If I told my 20-year old self that I was going to be spinning at Madison Square Garden in New York City, he'd say you're freaking crazy!”

Pauly D was actually in his late 20s when he spun at Karma. He and Nikki met on MTV's “Double Shot at Love with DJ Pauly D and Vinny.”

Vinny also lent emotional support for Pauly's D's big night at the Garden while the rest of the roomies stayed home.

Home for Angelina is a new McMansion in Freehold Township. She and husband Chris Larangeira moved in, and he apparently left soon after a fight. He filed for divorce in Monmouth County on Jan. 20, a court clerk confirmed to the USA Today Network New Jersey.

“I thought things were going to change and they didn't change and they actually got worse,” Angelina said. “Now I'm ready for this divorce.”

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The Angelina and Chris marriage drama started, well, with their wedding. The testimonial speech by Nicole, Jenni and Deena at Angelina's big day on November of 2019 at Park Château Estate and Gardens in East Brunswick caused more than a year of friction and Nicole to leave the show.

Nicole has since returned.

On Thursday, Angelina flew to Spain to film the new MTV series, “All Star Shore.” She came back and told her sister, who is quite unlike Angelina, that she met Luis “Potro” Caballero of the Mexican version of “Jersey Shore,” which is called “Acapulco Shore.” She was going to meet him in Mexico.

“Luis is a guy who gave me some attention in Spain,” Angelina said. “He said, 'You're beautiful, wow, Angelina, you look so pretty tonight.' "

She later sent cast members pics of her and Caballero in Mexico in a move that was hard to decipher the reason behind, except to stir up the storyline.

Romeo, the son of Mike and Lauren, was baptized at the Church of St. Catharine in Holmdel, and the reception took place at the Bucher's Block in Long Branch, the go to spot for “Jersey Shore Family Vacation” and “The Real Housewives of New Jersey.”

Mike kept on repeating “Blondes do have more fun” at the dinner.

“I'm actually happy about it because Mike was saying the same five quotes over and over,” Vinny said.

Mike and Pauly D visited Vinny at his new Tribeca bachelor pad. They dined at the Egyption Guys food truck with a camera crew in tow.

A fan had a message for Vinny.

“Should have stayed with Angela,” she said.

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Fans of Ronnie Ortiz-Magro will be disappointed to learn that he was not on Thursday's episode, nor was he mentioned. He was arrested on suspicion of intimate partner violence in April of 2021 in Los Angeles, and was not in any of the new promos and teasers.

He avoided jail when a judge in September determined that the time he spent in treatment was significant enough to forgo a sentence behind bars.

He and MTV stated that Ronnie was stepping away from the show after the arrest to address his mental health issues. "Jersey Shore Family Vacation" airs 8 p.m. Thursdays on MTV, followed by the new "Buckhead Shore." 

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Chris Jordan, a Jersey Shore native, covers entertainment and features for the USA Today Network New Jersey. Contact him at @chrisfhjordan; cjordan@app.com.

This article originally appeared on Asbury Park Press: Jersey Shore Family Vacation: It's Nikki vs. Angelina this season