DJ Pauly D, the onetime Johnston DJ who rose to fame on MTV’s “Jersey Shore” and “The Pauly D Project,” is a father, celebrity-gossip website TMZ reports.

Says TMZ: “The mother is 26, born in Jersey but she met Pauly in Vegas last year. We’re told they hooked up while he was DJing in Sin City. The baby is a few months old, living with her mom.”

The 33-year-old Pauly D, aka Paul DelVecchio, retweeted TMZ’s tweet of its story, and is accepting and retweeting congratulations sent on Twitter.

TMZ quotes him as telling the website: “I’m proud I’m a father. I am excited to embark on this new part of my life.”

Congrats Pauly! Congrats even though the whole world knows this is a Vegas baby. What’s the old adage? “What happens in vegas can grow inside your stomach and be born in Jersey”?….I think that’s the saying.

-MattyV

Here is how I picture Ron Paul finding out.