JoJo Siwa ‘Never Craved a Wedding’ Until Her Relationship with Chris Hughes

JoJo Siwa can credit Chris Hughes for her wedding day dreams. 

While appearing as a guest on the Tuesday, Sept. 9, episode of the Reign with Josh Smith podcast, the “Karma” singer, 22, revealed that the Love Island alum, 32, is helping her view love in a much different light. 

“I’m happy. I’ve never wanted the future so bad. I’ve never, ever wanted the love that I have to just continue to grow,” Siwa said. 

Siwa and Hughes met on season 24 of Celebrity Big Brother UK, which began filming in April 2025. They became close friends on the show before their relationship turned romantic.

“I’ve never craved a wedding,” the Dance Moms star continued. “I’ve always wanted to just like go sign a piece of paper or go to Vegas ’cause I didn’t wanna have a wedding, but now I’m like, ‘No, I want a ring and I want my Dad to walk me down the aisle and I want a first dance and I want butterflies.’ ” 

“I’m happy,” she said. 

Siwa confirmed her relationship with Hughes over the summer during a June 2 interview with The Guardian. “It’s not platonic anymore, and it’s been a beautiful development, a beautiful connection, and I’m absolutely head over heels for him and he’s the same way,” she said.

Prior to her relationship with the English television personality and sports presenter, she came out as LGBTQ+.

During the Reign with Josh Smith podcast, she admitted her dating public choices have not gone without “backlash.”

“It is hard because it feels like my own family has turned a little bit. And I think we are the LGBTQIA+ family, not the LG community and it’s a beautiful rainbow and the number one saying of the queer community is love is love,” Siwa said. 

She continued, “And that goes both ways … just because I am in a heterosexual relationship that doesn’t discredit my past.”

The “Hold the Drama” singer claims the public’s change of treatment toward her is palpable: “I see them see me and I see them laugh, I see them point, I see them roll their eyes.”

“That to me has made me be so aware, I guess, of how brutal hate can be and how brutal bullying can be from outside the community and from within, inside the community. I think people need to watch it because I can take it, but other people can’t and that’s tough,” she continued.

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Still, Siwa remained adamant that the hate will not change how she feels about Hughes.

“I think older people in the community need to realize the way that you treat me in this situation doesn’t affect me, I promise, at all. I’m very happy. I’m very loved. I give a lot of love. I’m feeling very loved. I am in a great place,” Siwa said.