The Situation Eyes New Jersey Governor Run with Bold Platform

With The Hills star Spencer Pratt now heading to a runoff in the Los Angeles mayoral race, fellow early-aughts reality TV figure Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino is apparently considering his own foray into politics with a run for New Jersey governor in 2029.

The Jersey Shore star teased his very lofty ambitions during an appearance in Wall Township for the launch of Vue Magazine, where he said a political career would be the next logical step after he launches his drug and alcohol rehabilitation center business, Archangels

“I’d like to have an Archangels center in every 50 states [sic],” Sorrentino told News12 . “And after that, you know, I will introduce everybody to Governor Situation.”

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Beyond that, Sorrentino noted that he can’t yet announce under which party he’d actually run. However, he mostly told us everything we’d need to know when he said that, “I think the residents of New Jersey would like no property tax.” Well, at least there would be more money for hair product, I suppose.

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Now, I could make plenty of jokes about the future Governor Situation. Like how his lieutenant governor could be Fyre Fest organizer (and prison BFF ) Billy McFarland. Or, how failing to pay $8.9 million in taxes (which landed him an eight-month prison sentence ) is seemingly ripped squarely out of the “Donald Trump Playbook for Bad Politicians Who Somehow Always Win.” (Same goes for his failed Boca Tanning Club — how do you screw up owning a tanning place in South Florida?!) Even that his first step could be to turn New Jersey’s official slogan into “gym, tan, laundry.” But the fact of the matter is this: the people of Jersey have clearly suffered enough already.

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_Originally reported by [Consequence](https://consequence.net/2026/06/the-situation-new-jersey-governor/)._