Despite circulating reports that MTV is planning to recast the breakout reality hit, Jersey Shore, after it’s 5th season, network execs claim the rumors are just plain untrue.

An MTV spokesperson told The Hollywood Reporter,

We love the present cast, and their summer adventures have just begun… We currently have no plans to recast the show.

Well, that’s not what we heard…

Never the shrinking violets, the show’s cast was quick to speak up after the recasting rumors surfaced.  Pauly D spoke out in an interview with People Magazine,

I think we’re irreplaceable… I don’t think they could replace us. They’d just be people trying to be like us, anyway…

DelVecchio also chatted about the upcoming season of The Shore, set to premiere August 4th.

It’s more of the guys getting into the drama… We’re used to it with the girls, but this season it’s a lot of the guys … I think it was as much drama as there was in Miami. Yeah, we got ourselves into some crap. Somehow we always end up OK. There was some serious stuff going on there.

More serious than leaving anonymous notes in tupperware containers?  Doubt it!