Poor Vinny Guadagnino!  Who knew that everyone’s favorite bada-boom-bada-bing-boy suffers from mad-crazy anxiety attacks?  Yep … it’s true, and he just revealed his battle with stress recently on CNN.

When MoxieQ snagged him for a one-on-one red carpet interview, he was just as jovial and peppy as you’d expect.  No signs of teen angst.  He prided himself on not being Snookie’s babydaddy and then talked about being the object of cougars’ affection.

Ever since Jersey Shore invaded every crevice of our pop culture landscape, Vinny has been known as the cerebral, understated one.  That’s high praise given the Mensa-free cast of characters.  (Although he did graduate from college with a 3.9 GPA.)  His antics on the show are fairly limited, which means he’s less likely to end up in rehab, prison or a spinoff series.

He’s shorter and buffer than he appears on TV, and surprisingly more articulate.  That’s what happens when you’ve been thrust in to reality TV’s limelight for years upon years.  You become media-savvy whore … able to turn on the charm whenever there’s a bright light shone in your face.   He’s the self-proclaimed “good boy” of the cast.  Well, goal achieved.

At the red carpet event, Vinny was a rock star/demi-god.  Girls screamed.  Reporters swooned.  And photographers practically got in to a shoving match to get the best shot of him.  Props to him for taking the time to talk to every single media outlet on the red carpet.

When I stopped watching Jersey Shore — about three seasons ago, that was apparently when the rest of the world discovered it.  He, along with the rest of the cast, is allegedly poised to make over $2 million each for the next season of the show.  Vinny is an integral part of one of TV’s most dysfunctional reality TV families.  Stressed out or not — we wouldn’t want it any other way.