'Jersey' Snooki boyfriend: 'I'm in love'

Nicole 'Snooki' Polizzi's boyfriend has claimed that the couple are in love.

The Jersey Shore cast member and personal trainer Emilio Masella began dating in early February. In a recent interview with People, Masella said that the pair confessed their love on Valentine's Day.

"We both started feeling it at the same time," he stated. "I said it to her when she got to my house and saw everything I got her… flowers, teddy bears, her favourite candies [she likes gummi bears], chocolate… I [also] got her a bottle of Cristal and she didn't know what it was, so I made her look it up!"

The two recently met up in New York City for a weekend vacation.

"We had a romantic getaway [two weeks ago] in New York City and stayed at the W - the hotel was amazing - and went skating at Rockefeller Centre. She just wanted to get away."

The trainer went on to say that last weekend he took the reality star to Columbus, OH for "the biggest body building show of the year". He claimed that he wants Polizzi to "start dieting and start training".

The second season of the MTV network's Jersey Shore begins filming in April.