TV fans can’t stop talking about JoJo Siwa as the singer and media personality is standing out on this year’s Celebrity Big Brother.
In discussions about CBB, fans have been discussing in detail the flirtation on screen between Siwa and Love Island star Chris Hughes. The pair have seemingly formed a close bond – from Chris calling her “his person” in the Diary room, to them cuddling and holding hands in bed at night.
JoJo, who is in a relationship with Australian content creator Kath Ebbs, has been open on the show about her gender identity and received a lot of support from her fellow housemates.
But before getting major screen time on Big Brother, the 21-year-old from the US “has lived so many lives”, Curiously Media states as she has had a whirlwind career. Some people are only just realising where they’ve seen her before and others, who had never heard of her, and are just realising all of her accomplishments at such a young age.
Many fans have been taking to X while watching CBB, with some expressing that they did not know who JoJo was. “I must be old because I have no idea who JoJo Siwa is,” commented one. “Same, no idea. Normally I know three or four of them and that’s it,” another wrote.
“Me neither, never heard of her,” said one other. “I only know her because my kids loved Dance Moms,” pointed out another parent. “I only know this because my daughter watched it [Dance Moms] over and over,” agreed another.
That’s right, JoJo, whose full name is Joelle Joanie, rose to fame after appearing on Lifetime’s popular show Dance Moms – which showed a group of talented children competing in tough dance competitions, being pitted against one another on a pyramid ranking each week, and the drama between their mothers and the dance teacher.
At its peak, the show was raking in 2.51million viewers. JoJo joined the show after competing at age 10 on TV show ‘Abby’s Ultimate Dance Competition’. Impressed by JoJo, Abby wanted her to join Dance Moms. Throughout her time on the show, JoJo stood out with her bright bows, rainbow accents and big personality.
During that time, the singer and dancer from Nebraska in the US, released her first songs ‘Boomerang’ and ‘I Can Make U Dance’. The music video for ‘Boomerang’ has been viewed over one billion times and since then JoJo has gone onto release 11 more songs. Last year, she went viral for her upbeat track Karma. The music video has been viewed over 52 million times on YouTube. In 2018 she was named Breakout Artist of the Year by Vivid Seats and went on to do a major tour in 52 cities around the world.
And it’s not just music, JoJo has done plenty of acting too. A video shared by Curiously Media has revealed where you may have seen her before – or heard her voice.
Siwa was signed by Nickelodeon and acted on a number of different TV shows and films. She starred in the film Blurt! and Lip Sync Battle Shorties. She also starred in her own feature film The J Team in 2021. Siwa appeared as a playable character in the 2020 video game Nickelodeon Kart Racers 2: Grand Prix, as well at its 2022 sequel Nickelodeon Kart Racers 3: Slime Speedway.
In 2020, Siwa impressed on season three of The Masked Singer as ‘T-Rex’ at just 16 years old. At the time, she was the youngest contestant to have been on the show. The same year she was named in the Time’s annual list of top 100 most influential people.
JoJo, who has also voiced characters in The Angry Birds Movie 2, has also had her own bow collection at Claire’s Accessories and partnered with American department store J.C. Penney in 2018 to release her own line of accessories, bedroom decor and her very own doll.
JoJo’s huge collection of her merchandise was shown in an episode of Keeping Up With the Kardashians in 2019. Kim Kardashian’s daughter North was obsessed with JoJo at the time and cameras followed North visiting JoJo’s home. As North went up to explore JoJo’s rainbow-coloured bedroom, Kim snuck into JoJo’s merchandising room, calling Kanye to show him the insane variety of product she sold.