JoJo Siwa 'never thought it possible' that she'd date men before meeting Chris Hughes
JoJo Siwa has opened up about how she 'never thought it was possible' that she would date a man, but has now been dating Chris Hughes for over a year.
Siwa and Hughes were costars on Celebrity Big Brother in the UK, and Siwa shared how she was surprised that she found herself attracted to him as she had not thought that she was attracted to men.
The star has been opened about being attracted to women, and has previously had relationships with women, and said previously that she was a lesbian as she had felt pressured to put a 'label' on her sexuality after she came out.
Now, she says that she has had to think more about herself in the light of her latest relationship.
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Speaking to the Wildmen podcast on 8 September, she said: “I put the label pansexual on it. Then it was confusing. And so, I was like, ‘All right, I'll be a lesbian.’ But I said, ‘OK, I'll be gay. It's just easier to say gay but I'm a lesbian if we all need to know the technical terms."
Having thought further about her sexuality in light of her relationship, she added: “I just am the umbrella term of queer or pansexual, because yeah, I fell in love with a boy. Here we are.”
In her appearance on the podcast Siwa opened up about how she had never thought she would be attracted to a man.
“I've always been grossed out by dudes,” she told hosts Dylan Sprouse and Brendan Columbus. “I've been talking about my boy best friends. They are conventionally hot men, right?”
She went on to say that although she could see that men were attractive, she had just never felt any spark with them.
“Chris is a very conventionally hot dude,” she said. “[But] I thought [he] was just another friend. Once I realized that I wasn't grossed out by the thought of him being a boy, I was like, ‘Whoa.’ It was weird because I'd never thought that before.”
Siwa said she had been surprised when she found herself being attracted to Hughes when the pair met on Celebrity Big Brother in 2025.
“I just never thought it was possible,” she said. “And people always say, ‘Oh, you know what if something happened with Chris, who would you date? Would you go for boys or girls?’
"And I say, ‘Well, at this point, I have no right to say.' You can find interviews of me where I have sworn on how gross dudes are and I'll never be with one and how I'm head over heels in love with one'.”
She added: “I really do think that Chris is very much so the special dude.”
Siwa had previously opened up to The Guardian about how she felt that her relationship with Hughes had made her think more on her sexuality, reflecting that there is s beauty in the journey of discovering yourself.
She said: "There’s a lot of different sexual identitie. I think there’s nothing more beautiful than somebody discovering themselves."
Kit Roberts