[Zizu]

Originally Posted by arista

Yes, time for her to move on

Down Under


[JoJo Siwa's ex Kath Ebbs has been seen
for the first time since returning to
Australia after being brutally dumped
at the Celebrity Big Brother afterparty,
kissing a male friend on the lips during
an outing in Bondi on Sunday]

This is all so confusing .. no wonder so many LBGT % people are absolutely livid with Jo Jo and presumably her ex ..

[Maru]

Originally Posted by Zizu

This is all so confusing .. no wonder so many LBGT % people are absolutely livid with Jo Jo and presumably her ex ..

Bur remember, it's all very private, very special and really hard to comprehend... look at meeeee...etc

[thesheriff443]

Look at the size of those boots

[arista]

Originally Posted by thesheriff443

Look at the size of those boots

Yes Rough Ground
down under,

[Maru]

Originally Posted by thesheriff443

Look at the size of those boots

Her pants look like she blew them up with an air compressor at home and then walked out. Can totally see there being a time where inflatable fashion becomes a thing and women start carrying around a USB charged inflater to maintain their motif. Never know when you'll get a flat...

[thesheriff443]

Originally Posted by Maru

Her pants look like she blew them up with an air compressor at home and then walked out. Can totally see there being a time where inflatable fashion becomes a thing and women start carrying around a USB charged inflater to maintain their motif. Never know when you'll get a flat...

She looks like she found a bag of clothes and shoes and decided to wear them

[Maru]

I was pressured into calling myself a lesbian. This is the truth about me and Chris Hughes: In her only interview JOJO SIWA reveals what REALLY happened after Celebrity Big Brother - and the ex she publicly dumped
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/you...g-Brother.html

JoJo Siwa is sitting in a high chair, having her make-up done for the YOU photoshoot. The process doesn’t take long: some eyeshadow, mascara, foundation – it’s all finished in less than 20 minutes. A metre or so away I am on the sofa with her publicist. ‘God, she’s got such good skin,’ I say. There’s a pause. ‘Well, yeah,’ replies the PR, ‘she’s only 22'.

For the unaware, the dancer-turned-entertainer-turned-singer is arguably the most successful child star born in the 21st century. (And this year JoJo has become known for her appearance on Celebrity Big Brother and her consequent relationship with the former Love Island-er Chris Hughes. But more on that later.) Hers is a staggering, spangled story. That of a girl who went on reality television when she was nine; by 13 had released albums and acted in films; at 15 presided over a billion-dollar business and sold 90million hair bows to children across the world; who sold out London’s O2 Arena aged 16; and who now – at ‘only 22’ – has to work out what to do next.

Joelle Joanie Siwa was born in Omaha, Nebraska, a small Midwestern city. The household consisted of her mother Jessalynn (a dance teacher), her father Tom (a chiropractor) and her elder brother, Jayden. It was a ‘middle class’ childhood; Jayden went to private school, and so did JoJo for a year, before starting homeschooling. ‘The decision stemmed – and this sounds crazy – because I was too smart for school,’ she says. ‘It was really easy for me. I was bored.’

In 2013, when JoJo was nine, Jessalynn signed her up for Abby’s Ultimate Dance Competition, a spin-off of the reality show Dance Moms. She made an impression and was asked to join the main programme, relocating with Jessalynn to California.

Dance Moms followed young dancers training under Abby Lee Miller, a now 59-year-old choreographer who spent most of the episodes shouting at the children for not remembering routines. Watching now, I’m amazed by the sturdiness of a tiny JoJo. In one episode, Miller informs her – at full volume and in front of a large room of people – that she ‘deserves nothing’ and JoJo looks, ever so slightly, like she might cry. Miller smells blood and intensifies (‘No, no, no, nope, no crying children!’) and JoJo says, in a suddenly grown-up voice: ‘Well, if you yell at me, I’m going to cry.’

Today, many of the dancers have denounced Miller – but not JoJo. (Miller came to visit her in London after she finished Celebrity Big Brother.) If one thing is clear from our conversation, it’s that JoJo doesn’t bother with grudges. She speaks constantly about positive attitudes. ‘It’s hard for me to have bad feelings towards people or companies or things,’ she says. ‘I just think the most important thing in life is to choose to be happy.’

In 2017, after two years of Dance Moms and aged 13, JoJo was signed by Nickelodeon. This is when she became truly famous. She made TV shows and films; released songs and music videos; and at 15 embarked on a 132-show world tour. Later that year JoJo became the youngest person to sell out London’s O2 Arena. ‘The first time I played an arena I cried, because I just couldn’t believe it,’ she says. ‘But then it became my normal. It became my every night.’

Then there was the merchandise. Of all the child stars in history, none has so successfully turned themselves into stuff as JoJo did. Companies like Walmart, Amazon and Claire’s sold JoJo Siwa dolls, backpacks, shoes, hoodies and hairbrushes. There was slime, glitter, stickers and – most importantly – bows. She was known for wearing an outsized bow on her head and the product was her best seller. JoJo bow-bows started at Ł3, came in 6,000 varieties and were so popular in the UK that several British schools banned pupils from wearing them. (Apparently, they breached uniform policies.)

Estimates suggest JoJo is now worth $20million (Ł14.8million). Californian laws mean 15 per cent of a child star’s earnings go into a locked bank account only they can access when they turn 18. (The 85 per cent goes to the parents and is supposed to cover the child’s living and education, plus taxes and job-related expenses.) JoJo has said previously that her mother worried she would turn 18, take the money and leave the family. JoJo didn’t, of course, but how did she react to hearing that? ‘I laughed. I was like, that was never going to happen!’ Also, ‘if I had blown through it, that would have been screwed up of me’.

She adds: ‘Truthfully, an 18-year-old should not have access to the money that I had access to. Even though it was my money, an 18-year-old can’t handle that. At 22, I still can’t comprehend it.’

Although she did buy a Lamborghini on her 18th birthday. ‘My dad took me to get it. I really wanted a car. It was my [present to say]: “You survived!”’ She promptly had the vehicle ‘wrapped’ in giant stickers of her face. The car has since been unwrapped and sold.

This year JoJo also got rid of the six-bedroom house in Tarzana, California, she had bought for her family five years previously. She now lives alone in nearby Encino, in suburban San Fernando Valley, renting a three-bedroom apartment. ‘A lot of people say: “Why are you renting? You’re throwing money out the window.” But my rent is cheaper than my air conditioning bill was in my house.’

How much was the air conditioning bill? ‘Too much!’ How many figures? ‘Too many!’

JoJo’s parents live in a house that she bought, but her 25-year-old brother is now financially independent from her, working as an indoor skydiving instructor and living in Florida with his fiancée. She is incredibly close to all of them. How old was she when she realised she was her family’s breadwinner? ‘Honestly, not until pretty recently, because I’d never been told that.’

When JoJo and her mother left the family home for California to shoot Dance Moms, Jayden and Tom stayed in Omaha, living normal lives. Jayden went to school, Tom worked as a chiropractor, and they saw JoJo and Jessalynn every few weeks.

When Jayden turned 19, the family wanted to reunite in California, which meant Tom needed to quit his job. Her mother told JoJo: ‘You can change your mind [about your career]. But if your dad and brother move out here, you can’t decide overnight that you just want to stop.’ JoJo was 16 at the time.

‘I’ve had people in my life say that was crazy of my parents,’ says JoJo. ‘But no, my dad was choosing to give up his financially stable job, because of my financially stable job, so that we could all be a family.’

Child stars quite often, because of the fame and the money and the pressure, go a bit mad. JoJo seemingly hasn’t. That is, she says, thanks to her family – ‘100 per cent’. Today her mother, who is 50, is her manager and still sews the rhinestones on her costumes by hand. ‘Once she passes on in this life, I don’t think I will continue with my career. I think that would be the only thing that would make me go: “Right, time to move to a small town.” I’m not going to put on a costume if I know that she hasn’t made it.’

It sounds to me like there’s a lot of pressure on JoJo to keep working. She disagrees. ‘If I wanted to stop working I could, right now, and I’d be fine [financially] for the rest of my life. But I don’t want to, because I have a passion for it.’

In January 2021, when she was 17 and Nickelodeon’s biggest star, JoJo came out. There was no team consultation, she just posted a photo to Instagram of her wearing a T-shirt that read: ‘Best Gay Cousin Ever’, then went to bed. (She technically considered herself ‘pansexual’ – a broader term than bisexual that means being attracted to men, women and people who are gender fluid.) In the morning, JoJo has said that the president of ‘the company I worked for’ called and asked her what they was supposed to tell her young audience. He also instructed her to ring every single retailer that stocked her products and assure them she wasn’t going crazy. She obliged and says that the retailers were ‘so supportive, so excited, so happy. I honestly think that made the company be like: “Whoa, maybe we’re the problem.” Nickelodeon has denied this took place.

Two months later, she wasn’t invited to the Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards, the company’s answer to the Oscars. Afterwards, Nickelodeon said it was an ‘honest mistake’; others wondered if she’d been blackballed.

‘I don’t think they blackballed me,’ she says today. ‘I think they just didn’t want anything to do with me after that [coming out]. I think they almost made the conscious choice to forget about me. If it was because of my sexuality, then all good,’ she shrugs. ‘You know what I mean? My coming out didn’t faze me. It fazed them and I couldn’t care less.’

By 2024, JoJo had to perform the tricky act that all child stars must: she had to grow up. She binned the bows, cut her hair, wore a lot of black leather, and released a song called Karma with the first line: ‘I was a bad girl, I did some bad things’. It was all, she admits, nonsense. ‘I faked being naughty for a year. I faked that I was screwing people left and right. I think I wanted attention. And I look back and I’m like: “What were you doing? You look crazy!”’

Commercially, this new vibe wasn’t as successful as JoJo with the bow-bow. When she recalls her childhood experience at the O2, she acknowledges, ‘Now, I couldn’t sell out an arena if I tried. I mean, the goal of course is to get back there, but you age, and you change, and I’m not doing the same stuff.’ It’s true. JoJo’s two recent (sold-out) shows in London were at Colors, a 300-person venue.

Jojo with boyfriend and Celebrity Big Brother co-star Chris Hughes last month

That might be the trickiest thing about being a child star: dealing with the fact that, almost always, your career peaks when you are young. ‘It’s weird,’ JoJo says. ‘It’s almost the feeling of: man, is my 14-year-old self more successful than my 22-year-old self? But I’ve got to give it up for her. I’m proud of her!’

JoJo’s stint on Celebrity Big Brother (and her relationship with Hughes) has reignited public interest in her in the UK. But I sort of wonder why she did the show at all – she has enough money that she could retire and be comfortable for ever. Maybe once you’ve played sold-out arenas at the age of 16, it’s hard to accept a normal life. Also, it’s all she knows. When I ask JoJo what she remembers of her childhood in Omaha, she says very little. She began working in the media when she was nine. ‘I don’t remember not being public.’

She tells me she entered the Celebrity Big Brother house in April not for money, but for fun. ‘My team was like: “No, we have to stay on music right now.” I was like: “No, I love reality TV. This will be a blast.”’

Two days into the show, JoJo was confronted by the 72-year-old actor Mickey Rourke. He asked if she was a lesbian, she said yes, and Rourke replied: ‘If I stay longer than four days, you won’t be gay any more.’ Shortly after, in the smoking area, Rourke declared: ‘I need a fag’, and then pointed to JoJo and said: ‘I’m not talking to you.’ He was later made to leave the house and JoJo has not heard from him since. ‘Honestly, if I saw him on the street, I don’t think he’d know who I was.’

Top and shorts, Asos. Socks, Sock Shop. Loafers, Rejina Pyo at Couverture & The Garbstore

But the biggest Celebrity Big Brother story was JoJo’s growing relationship with Hughes. They made an unlikely pair. He is ten years her senior, is the son of a Gloucestershire farmer, appeared on Love Island in 2017 and now works as an influencer (with 2.2million Instagram followers) and TV presenter. She defined herself as a lesbian and was in a relationship with the non-binary actor Kath Ebbs. Still, they became close and people began to wonder if they fancied each other. By day 16 inside, JoJo told another contestant she now felt she was ‘queer’ rather than a ‘lesbian’. This heaved buckets of fuel on the fire.

They left Celebrity Big Brother, JoJo broke up with Ebbs and then there was a protracted ‘will-they-won’t-they’ thing between her and Hughes. They went on holiday to Mexico and posted cosy pictures together, but when asked about it would say stuff like ‘we’re platonic soulmates’.

When I meet JoJo, the relationship has been confirmed publicly. ‘I’ll just say that it took time. It took time away and then it took time together.’ Later she says, sweetly, that Hughes is now ‘the favourite part of my life’. (Before the photoshoot we go for coffee and, when a father and baby walk past us, JoJo says: ‘God, I want kids so much.’)

She is meeting Hughes’ family that evening – ‘and his horse!’ – and spending a week in the Cotswolds. After that, she will return to the US to finish her tour. ‘I’ve been in a long-distance relationship before and it’s tough, obviously, but you make it work. We’re both lucky because we have careers that we control.’

I ask what it’s like to go out with her first English partner and if there are any cultural differences. ‘Look,’ she replies, ‘he’s also the first boy I’ve ever really gone out with, so…’

Finishing third in the Celebrity Big Brother final in April this year

Of her sexuality, JoJo says she is queer (the umbrella term for people who identify other than straight). ‘When I came out at 17, I said: “I’m pansexual, because I don’t care [about gender].” But then I kind of boxed myself in and I said: “I’m a lesbian.” And I think I did that because of pressure.’ Where did that pressure come from? ‘In a weird way, I think it came a little bit from inside the [LGBTQ] community at times. From people I know, from partners I’ve had. You just get put in this world where you feel like, because you now have said, “Oh, I’m a lesbian”, you have to be a lesbian. And the truth is, sexuality is fluid.’

Her first girlfriend, who she’s still close to, texted her a happy message once she left Celebrity Big Brother. ‘And if even she can be supportive of Christopher and me, then there’s no reason others can’t be!’ Conversely, Ebbs posted several unhappy TikToks in response to the break-up. At this, JoJo is unbothered. ‘It’s all good. Sometimes people just like to have a quick bite.’

It is a typical JoJo Siwa response. The girl (and she really is still a girl) who is: not angry at her ex for publicly denouncing her; not angry at Mickey Rourke for bullying her; not angry at Nickelodeon for ‘forgetting’ her. It feels like you’re remarkably stable, I say, like you haven’t… She finishes this sentence for me: ‘Gone crazy? Yes. I mean, I’m young; there’s still time for me to develop and to process more of what’s happened in my life.

‘But, truth be told, I think I’ve done most of that. I’ve already thought about it and I’m beyond happy with it all. If I could go back in time, I wouldn’t change a thing. Really. Zero. I would change nothing.’

[arista]

Pictured in Chicago in June 2024


[JoJo Siwa's concert at Pride in Chicago
on Saturday has been cancelled]

[arista]

[Pictured in London in June 2024]

[Siwa postponed the US leg of her tour earlier
this month, hinting that more European dates
might be added instead.
The news comes amid the news Columbia Records
had dropped her]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbi...e-lesbian.html

[arista]

Maru
Thank you for giving the text.

As M+
Daily Mail M+ costs to view, in the UK.

[Zizu]

I kinda grew to like JoJo though I feel that she is vastly overrated … even the descriptions suggesting she’s a top notch recording artist


She has released a few EPs and some 13 singles but only one .. Karma managed to get in the charts at number 24 !!!!


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[Maru]

Originally Posted by arista

[Siwa postponed the US leg of her tour earlier
this month, hinting that more European dates
might be added instead.
The news comes amid the news Columbia Records
had dropped her]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbi...e-lesbian.html

JoJo Siwa cancelled her performance at Saturday's Pride celebration in Chicago.

Back Lot Bash Chicago, the organization putting on the event, made the announcement early Saturday morning with a quick note in its Instagram Stories.

'Due to a scheduling conflict, JoJo Siwa will no longer be performing at Chicago's Back Lot Bash,' it read, without further explanation.

"Scheduling conflict"... Sure, Jojo.

[Maru]

I've never heard of someone being pressured to be a certain LGBT status, not publicly? Without her putting herself out publicly anyway, how much pressure could there really be? She's the one who openly advertised herself as being part of that community from the beginning and went in head first into announcing that. She could've led a more private life if she was still in that questioning stage, but imo, she chose the labels she did to further expand her audience. Theoretically, if she went Queer, it would've been bad timing with the age and makeup of her audiences then. She would alienate too many of her former audience. Especially any questioning parents would've been vocal about this. Being a lesbian was perfectly normal by the time she announced within the US.

Also having told Mickey she is certainly going to remain lesbian, she was very certain then she would remain lesbian. And it could be said she was pressured to be straight in that moment... but anyway, for whatever reason (it's not love, please...), she saw Chris as her meal ticket. I think it was to craft a new audience further into the UK because her old one has long grown up and is moving on to other followings, surely. Obviously she wasn't going to hit it off with another woman in there and that go very well. That would be an obvious situation of outright cheating?... but hit it off with a men? Oh wonderful, then she can talk about all the chutes and ladders available to those within LGBT and her insecurities. Basically all the emotional fluff that sells articles... she's not stupid.

FWIW, I do think she is not lying in saying she was likely pan in the beginning. Not sure the immediate differences between Queer/pan, but regardless... I don't see the point in labels anyway, especially for Jojo, who will just do her thing for her own self-amusement and obviously her obvious interest in staying attuned to her modern audience.

[Maru]

1M views, so it must be good right:

Youtube video

Timestamp for people who want the dude to just get to the point: https://youtu.be/OZV-561JKeY?si=3gNIcFn--O-WQeaW&t=224

-Apparently Siwa is rebranding (again again?)
-Lots of dislikes
-People are meme-ing her new song+voice
-Articles were written about it

Articles:

JoJo Siwa Drops New Song And Fans Are Roasting The 'Wild' Autotune
https://theblast.com/701087/jojo-siw...wild-autotune/

"Fans"...

Random Comment: "Your voice sounds like Sprite" ... if only Sprite still sounded like that, hun.... they took out all the bubblies out from our bumblies... now it's just sugar with the added taste of popped bubbles...

[Maru]

I feel like they re-release this "We're in so love" article every now and then ... omg, they have physical photos with them in it together around her house...



(Random bit of text up there??...)

Link: https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbi...ot-major-step/

Love Island alum Chris, 32, recently flew out to reunite with Dance Moms star JoJo, 22, in LA.

Taking to Instagram, Chris shared a snap of a framed photo in JoJo's family home - which shows the pair hugging.

It comes as Chris has been open and honest about how "totally in love" he is with JoJo.

"I am really in love with this one," he told the Daily Mail.

"She is my princess, she is a good one."

He flew to LA to see her recently:

Chris Hughes can’t keep his hands off girlfriend JoJo Siwa after revealing they’re ‘totally in love’
https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbi...tally-in-love/

All of this just seems timed.

[Maru]

Chris Hughes, 32, shares baby plans with girlfriend JoJo Siwa, 22, as 'besotted' star gushes over romance
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbi...JoJo-Siwa.html

In a chat with US Weekly, Chris said: 'We genuinely speak to each other about this, I would be lying if I said we didn't.

'When you're besotted with each other and in love with someone I think it's fun to look forward to those things.

Chris continued: 'Of course I want to get married to her, I would never shy away from that. And one day I want to have children.

[Mystic Mock]

What in the holy **** am I reading?

Did Jojo really lie about her sexuality?

[Maru]

Originally Posted by Mystic Mock

What in the holy **** am I reading?

Did Jojo really lie about her sexuality?

Turns out she was only attracted to fame all along

[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by Maru

Turns out she was only attracted to fame all along

Clearly.