“Jersey Shore” star “DJ Pauly D” Delvecchio had hundreds of LSU students fist pumping like champs Wednesday night at Bogie’s Bar.Fans waited for hours outside Bogie’s on East Boyd just to get inside for the set.”I was really nervous all day because I did not get a pre-sale ticket when they announced it, and I was going to be really upset if I did not get to see Pauly D,” said Sara Landry, elementary education graduate student. “So I made sure I was here a couple hours early for this, because there was no way I was missing this show.”Other fans simply wanted to meet Pauly and touch his famous “Blowout” hairstyle, which he spends 25 minutes on every day.”I will grab his hair, and then I will freak out because I just love Pauly D’s hair so much,” said Alyssa Perez, communications studies senior.Inside the bar, dozens of guys could have passed for Pauly D from the back, as they rocked sported gelled hairstyles, muscle shirts and large, white sunglasses.Two University students, Sydney “The Blackout” Banks and Chris “The Robbery” LeBouef, proclaimed themselves die-hard “Jersey Shore” fans and dressed the part.Banks, an interdisciplinary studies junior, wore a ripped black T-shirt with her nickname painted on in gold glitter, and her hair was in the signature “poof” style of Snooki, her favorite “guidette” from the hit MTV show.”We sort of live the GTL [gym, tanning and laundry] lifestyle that [Mike] ‘The Situation’ [Sorrentino] promotes on the show,” Banks said.Snooki was easily the most popular female character among people at the concert.”My favorite character is Snooki because she’s so trashy, and I’m really hoping she’ll show up,” Perez said.LeBouef, mass communication junior, was sporting a skin-tight black T-shirt and spiked hair, paid homage to Mike “The Situation” with his nickname, “The Robbery.””Basically, a robbery involves hitting on a girl that another guy is working on and basically stealing his game from him,” LeBouef said.The DJ was greeted with everything from screams by female fans to nods of approval from tanned, spiked-hair bros upon his arrival at the show before he was whisked away from the crowd of adoring fans into the back room of the bar.As for people’s favorite Pauly D moment from “Jersey Shore,” the vote was unanimous: “the grenade situation,” a recurring strategy in which one cast member will entertain a woman, so another can try to “hook up” with her more attractive friend.”When he did not want to back Mike up with the grenade situation — that was epic,” Perez said.–Contact Chris Abshire at [email protected]
DJ Pauly D heads sold-out bash
February 11, 2010