Watch: Jojo Siwa Details Being “Grossed Out” by Men Before Chris Hughes
JoJo Siwa is dancing through the journey that led her to Chris Hughes.
Over a year after confirming her romance with her Celebrity Big Brother U.K. costar, the Dance Moms alum detailed how she found love with a man after years of feeling a heterosexual relationship was never going to be for her.
“I’ve always been grossed out by dudes,” Siwa shared on the Sept. 8 episode of the Wildmen podcast. “I’ve been talking about my boy best friends. They are conventionally hot men, right?”
“Chris is a very conventionally hot dude,” she continued to podcast hosts Dylan Sprouse and Brendan Columbus. “[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.”
And because she’d never felt a physical spark with any of her male best friends, the 23-year-old was especially struck when she began to feel attracted to Hughes after meeting him on Celebrity Big Brother U.K. in 2025.
“I just never thought it was possible,” she admitted. “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.’”
Right now, she’s feeling like Hughes might just be the exception to her rule.
As she noted, “I really do think that Chris is very much so the special dude.”
And Siwa—who previously shared she felt pressured to “label” her sexuality after coming out—shed additional light on her journey.
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“I put the label pansexual on it,” Siwa explained during her Wildman appearance. “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.”
Now, the Nickelodeon alum has been able to redefine her sexuality amid her romance with Hughes.
“I just am the umbrella term of queer or pansexual,” Siwa explained, “because yeah, I fell in love with a boy. Here we are.”
For a look back at Siwa’s dating history, keep reading…
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