{"id":274496,"date":"2025-07-19T10:36:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T10:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/274496\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T10:36:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T10:36:15","slug":"jojo-and-chris-hughes-plan-to-quit-uk-amid-baby-bombshell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/274496\/","title":{"rendered":"JoJo and Chris Hughes’ plan to quit UK amid baby bombshell"},"content":{"rendered":"

JoJo Siwa’s Dance Moms teacher and close friend Abby Lee Miller gives her verdict on her headline-grabbing romance with Love Island alum Chris Hughes and maintains it’s ‘no showmance’<\/p>\n

08:00, 19 Jul 2025Updated 08:05, 19 Jul 2025<\/p>\n

\"JoJoAbby Lee Miller says JoJo and Chris’s love is totally genuine(Image: Instagram)<\/p>\n

Celebrity Big Brother<\/a> couple JoJo Siwa<\/a> and Chris Hughes <\/a>will start a family together \u2013 according to one of her closest friends, as OK! reports<\/a>. This insight is certainly in keeping with Chris\u2019s own comments in an interview earlier this month<\/a>, in which he admitted to being \u201cobsessed\u201d with JoJo and confirmed they both want kids.<\/p>\n

The US singer, 22, may have identified as a lesbian<\/a> for most of her adult life, but everything changed when she met former Love Island<\/a> star Chris, 32, on CBB in April. At the time she was in a relationship with actor Kath Ebbs, but she shocked CBB viewers by forming a close bond with Chris during the show and then splitting up with Kath<\/a> soon after leaving the house.<\/p>\n

READ MORE: Enjoy ‘delicious’ peaches this summer as ‘easy to grow’ fruit tree plummets to half-price<\/a>\"JoJoThe pair have been inseparable since meeting on Celebrity Big Brother(Image: ITV)<\/p>\n

And JoJo\u2019s former mentor, Abby Lee Miller<\/a>, who ran the dance company in the show Dance Moms which launched JoJo\u2019s career, says she always felt her prot\u00e9g\u00e9 was more attracted to men than women.<\/p>\n

JoJo made a TikTok video earlier this month to promote her new single Bette Davis Eyes<\/a>. Poking fun at earlier rumours circulating that she was pregnant<\/a>, she proceeded to play a game of Two Truth And A Lie, asking fans which statement is a lie: \u201c1) I\u2019ve never smoked a [cigarette] 2) I\u2019m pregnant 3) This song comes out on Spotify Friday.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dance teacher and choreographer Abby, chatting to new at comedian Heather McDonald\u2019s Juicy Scoop<\/a> podcast 10th anniversary party in Westwood, Los Angeles last month, said JoJo and Chris are genuinely in love and it\u2019s definitely not a showmance.<\/p>\n

Abby, 59, who helped Nebraska-born JoJo shine in her reality show before she signed up with Nickelodeon, spent time with close friend JoJo and Chris recently during a work trip to Universal Studios in Orlando. She confirmed the pair have met each other\u2019s parents, with JoJo\u2019s mother Jessalynn approving of the former Love Island favourite.<\/p>\n

\"AbbyAbby was JoJo’s mentor on the show Dance Moms(Image: Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Insisting that JoJo and Chris are genuinely in love, Abby said, \u201cJoJo is absolutely smitten. It is like she\u2019s in junior high and he is the homecoming king and the quarterback and all of that mixed up. She looks at him and bats her eyelashes. It\u2019s adorable.\u201d<\/p>\n

It seems JoJo has always harboured a desire to have a family of her own, according to Abby. \u201cAbsolutely, she wants kids \u2013 tons of kids,\u201d Abby said, adding that the Karma singer would be a \u201cgreat\u201d mother who would encourage her children to head into showbiz. \u201cIt\u2019s going to be a Disney World<\/a>-type thing, you know what I mean? Those kids will be everywhere and do everything. It will be a fun life.\u201d<\/p>\n

JoJo has previously talked about being a lesbian, but Abby said she always suspected she was attracted to men from an early age. Smiling, she recalled, \u201cEven as a little kid, I thought, \u2018She likes the hot guys.\u2019 That was something we had in common \u2013 we like the hot guys.\u201d<\/p>\n

Talking about Chris\u2019s attributes, Abby said she believes his maturity is a key factor. \u201cHe\u2019s a bit older than her,\u201d she said. \u201cHe\u2019s been around the block. He knows how to treat her, whereas a high school boy isn\u2019t going to know that. Even someone her age, at 21 or 22, isn\u2019t going to treat a girl with the respect and niceties that Chris has learned along the way.\u201c<\/p>\n

\"JoJoThe singer split with girlfriend Kath Ebbs shortly after leaving the CBB house(Image: Variety via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Abby also hit back at the cynics who have suggested their relationship is simply a ploy to stay in the spotlight. \u201cNo way, that is the real JoJo \u2013 that\u2019s the person I know,\u201c she insisted. \u201cShe is smitten and, you know, she jumps into everything fast. I remember the day she called me saying she had her first kiss. And she was jumping around the house, freaking out, telling everybody about her first kiss and she was, like, 17-years-old. That usually happens when you\u2019re 13 or 14.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo because of being homeschooled, because of being in the entertainment industry and her life as we know it, she wasn\u2019t around those junior high boys. So meeting Chris and doing Big Brother<\/a> \u2013 that was like her first foray into that and she\u2019s just absolutely head over heels.\u201d<\/p>\n

But Abby said JoJo isn\u2019t planning to settle permanently in the UK with Chris, who grew up on a farm in Gloucestershire and got his first taste of fame reaching the final of Love Island<\/a> in 2017.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe travels so much and she sold her house here in LA \u2013 I just think that she is going to do this and do that and go here, go there and they can travel together,\u201d said Abby. \u201cThey can go anywhere in the world<\/a>. I don\u2019t see her living in London for the rest of her life, absolutely not. And I don\u2019t see him being able to come here. It\u2019s not that easy to come to America.\u201d<\/p>\n

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