I'll say it, I'm obsessed with JoJo Siwa and Chris Hughes

But, is it because they're a real life She's All That or my own unconscious bias?

Before we address the main confession, I have another, more minor one to make.

I did not watch Celebrity Big Brother on the TV. I somehow got hooked in to this series via TikTok and all my viewership and subsequent knowledge, has come from 60 second video clips.

Yeah, it’s not just Gen Z that have the brain rot. In fact, I’ll go one step further and admit I’ve watched films in multiple parts on TikTok. But, that’s a Substack for another day.

Anyway, what I’m trying to say is, that while some of you might be new to the JoJo Siwa x Chris Hughes collab, I’ve been here since the Celeb BB origins.

I think we’ve discussed my love for love stories on here before and watching the two of them interact, reminded me of the early days of Joe Sugg and Dianne Buswell on Strictly Come Dancing.

From all the back stroking, eye contact and finding any excuse to touch one another, you just knew Chris and JoJo were falling for one another. However, JoJo’s sexuality was the one thing that left a slightly transparent question mark hanging over the whole thing.

As far as I was aware (please do correct me if I’m wrong), JoJo came out in 2021 as a lesbian. However, it was during her Celeb BB experience that she realised she now identified as Queer.

While the pair previously refused to comment. Their togetherness is all but confirmed now given their multiple social media comments, shared pictures, PDA, stage tributes, the list goes on.

As for me? I remain as obsessed as I was watching them in that West London Airbnb.

I spent at least half an hour of my bank holiday Monday watching JoJo’s Instagram lives. I search for the latest ‘Chris and JoJo’ updates and absorb every over the top romantic fan edit that my TikTok algorithm now regularly serves me.

Reflecting on my obsession, I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s partly because they are so different.

To me, they represent the high school rom coms that I grew up watching on repeat. I totally see Chris as Zack Siller and JoJo as Laney Boggs, except without JoJo having to transform herself into something she isn’t.

I absolutely love that this typical Love Island lad, is besotted with someone who loves to wear baggy shorts and glue rhinestones on their ears everyday.

It’s refreshing.

However, you know I’m big into the critical thinking and I have also had the internal debate with myself about how JoJo’s sexuality comes into all of this.

Call me paranoid or call me a writer that’s all too aware of opinion pieces. But, there is something about JoJo dumping her non binary partner for a hetrosexual, cis man, resulting in the general public being obsessed, that does warrant some thinking about your own internal biases, you may not have addressed.

However, I truly don’t think for me, this is the cause of my obsession.

It’s not that I ‘prefer’ seeing JoJo with a man or that I feel she has in anyway been ‘rescued’ by a man, like the Disney films we grew up on portrayed.

Instead, I do truly think it is the coming together of two entirely different worlds, that makes this so fascinating.

Whether that’s as simple as their American/British cultural differences or their completely opposing dress sense.

There’s also something satisfying about the reaction from people like Chris’s ex Olivia Atwood.

Now, I’ve never watched Love Island, so have no knowledge of their previous relationship lore, but watching clips of Olivia shading the new couple, makes me root for them and JoJo even more.

As much as I love JoJo’s masc dress sense around Chris, I also love that she now craves such great British cuisine as both Spaghetti and Hula Hoops and if I’m brutally honest, I’m already sad about it’s inevitable end.

Yes, as much as I like them together and want to be proved wrong, I don’t think they’ll be getting a bench for their 25th wedding anniversary.

Which is why we just have to enjoy every minute while we can and if that means tuning into JoJo’s lives, well I’m happy to do that.

Oh, and in terms of her JoJo’s former partner, I surprisingly don’t have much empathy?

Maybe it’s because, again, I’m not familiar with them. But, from what I have seen, it’s giving clout goblin and we all know I don’t have time for that.