Jersey Shore creator SallyAnn Salsano told me that being fired by HGTV from another popular reality show she created, Design Star , “really hurt my feelings,” but that watching Mark Burnett’s version of the show made her realize that she and her team are “geniuses.” Today, in The Daily Beast, I profile SA, as she’s known, based on a conversation we had in Los Angeles, where she was promoting TV Guide Network’s upcoming series The Nail Files . When writing the story, I realized that the press release announcing she’d been replaced as producer of the HGTV show went out on the same day as the debut of her MTV series; the world is funny that way. I included some of her comments about the HGTV show in the story, but didn’t have space to include them all, and she offers a lot of insight into both the process and the politics. When I asked about the HGTV competition, SA told me, “I loved Design Star. Design Star was my baby. There is no show that I loved more than Design Star. To say that I...