MTV star, Vinny Guadagnino may have gotten his start in reality TV, but the Jersey Shore jokester i ready to try his hand at some serious acting.

Well, maybe not serious acting, but acting nonetheless.

For the past several months, the 23-year-old has been taking acting classes and will finally get the chance to show off his chops this fall, on the CW hit 90210.  According to sources, he will be playing a participant in a high-stakes poker game – so it should be a real stretch for our boy, Vin.

In an interview earlier this year, Guadagnino discussed his desire to break into “the biz”.

Well right now I’m taking some classes and then I was on a show called ‘”Disaster Date’ that was like an improv show which was awesome. ‘Jersey Shore’ has afforded me some opportunities to work with like different talk shows like Jimmy Fallon and George Lopez where I’m constantly acting and building up my resume. Besides just taking my classes, I have a lot of little projects rolling in.

I feel like taking an improv class with Vinny would be eerily similar to taking an improv class with Michael Scott…

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