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Snooki to drop in on Jersey on New Year's Eve

Plan to put reality star in ball moves to Seaside Heights after Times Square says no

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"Jersey Shore" star Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi is heading back to Seaside Heights for New Year's Eve.
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updated 12/30/2010 1:30:51 PM ET 2010-12-30T18:30:51

Snooki is heading back to the “Jersey Shore” for New Year’s Eve.

After her plans to drop from a ball in Times Square as part of MTV’s New Year’s Eve celebration were nixed, Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi is heading home, the network confirmed on Thursday.

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“Jersey Shore’s” pint-sized, self-proclaimed guidette, will now drop from a ball in her stomping grounds of Seaside Heights, N.J., as part of MTV’s “New Year’s Bash 2011.”

“We love our Times Square home and while we’re disappointed there won’t be a Snooki ball drop there, she cannot be denied! So we’re taking a road trip to the place where it all began, Seaside Heights, and droppin’ it all there,” MTV said in a statement.

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TMZ, which first reported the story, posted photos of a clear ball, emblazoned with “Snooki” on the top, being assembled in Jersey.

The Times Square Alliance and Countdown Entertainment organization, which co-produces Times Square’s New Year’s Eve event, previously told Entertainment Weekly that Snooki’s NYC ball drop plans came too late.

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“It was never intended or requested for Snooki to be in the actual New Year’s Eve Ball in Times Square. The request to have her in a separate ball on a set-back roof came too late and was too impractical to fit in to our outdoor events,” a producer for the group said in a statement to EW.

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MTV’s “New Year’s Bash 2011” airs on Dec. 31 at 10:30 p.m. ET.

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