"it's not necessarily a stereotype; it's just how it is ... in New York and New Jersey, that just happens to be the style." Sammi "Sweetheart" Giancola said prior to the shows debut: It's just people living life on the show ... that's it ... We shouldn't judge, because everybody's their own person. I feel, as an Italian-American, I understand their ways. People are what they are ... and that's the way it is. When Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi was on The Wendy Williams Show she responded to the criticism saying: The Italian, whatever, national, whatever their organization is, they don't understand that 'guidos' and 'guidettes' are good-looking people that, you know, like to make a scene and be center of attention and just take care of themselves ... They are old-fashioned. They don't know that; they think it's offensive, because maybe in their time it was offensive, but now it's kind of a compliment. So they don't understand that and that is what we are trying to say. They are way overreacting to the show. We're 22 to 29 just having fun at the shore. They are just taking it way out of proportion. During the reunion special, the cast members rejected the notion that there was anything shameful about being a guido, with Paul "DJ Pauly D" DelVecchio saying, "I don't represent all Italians.. I only represent myself." Sponsor boycotts Domino's Pizza and American Family Insurance pulled their commercial advertisements after the debut episode of the show. In response, MTV said in a statement, "Jersey Shore may not be for every sponsor or advertiser and we understand that." Domino's stated that they didn't have a problem with MTV but that the content of the show wasn't right for them. Tim McIntyre, Domino's vice president of communications, stated, "One of the ads happened to show up and once we saw what the program was, we decided that the content wasn't in keeping with what we're all about." In response to Polizzi's comments about the advertisers, a rep for Domino's reiterated the company's previous statement saying, We have no issue with MTV or the programming it airs ... Just like viewers have a choice of what they want to watch, advertisers have a choice on what shows they want to advertise. We didn't pull a penny from MTV ... We love what they do. We never made any critical commentary. It