{"id":298716,"date":"2025-07-28T14:47:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T14:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/298716\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T14:47:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T14:47:11","slug":"chris-hughes-responds-to-creepy-age-gap-with-jojo-siwa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/298716\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Hughes responds to &#8216;creepy&#8217; age gap with JoJo Siwa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chris put poor Pauline in her place, and it was savage <\/p>\n<p>Since debuting as an official couple following their reality TV stint on Celebrity Big Brother, Chris Hughes and JoJo Siwa have been forced to weather accusations of their relationship being \u201ccreepy\u201d because of their age gap.<\/p>\n<p>Most of us thought Chris Hughes and <a href=\"https:\/\/thetab.com\/tag\/jojo-siwa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">JoJo Siwa<\/a> were striking up a solid friendship in the <a href=\"https:\/\/thetab.com\/tag\/celebrity-big-brother\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Celebrity Big Brother<\/a> house \u2013 but boy, were we all so wrong. They went official a few weeks after leaving, confessing that <a href=\"https:\/\/thetab.com\/2025\/06\/04\/this-is-the-adorable-reason-jojo-siwa-denied-she-was-dating-chris-hughes-for-so-long\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">their bond broken past \u201cplatonic\u201d<\/a> and into the realm of romance.<\/p>\n<p>It was at this point that people clocked JoJo Siwa and Chris Hughes\u2019 11-year age gap, with the former being 21 and the latter 32. To make matters even more cringy, people stitched JoJo\u2019s 2016 song Boomerang \u2013 the one where she\u2019s singing in a school \u2013 with Chris\u2019 2017 track Little Bit Leave It.<\/p>\n<p>Though <a href=\"https:\/\/thetab.com\/2025\/04\/29\/chris-hughes-had-a-savage-response-to-people-criticising-his-crazy-age-gap-with-jojo-siwa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chris did respond to age gap criticism<\/a> at the time, pointing out that \u201cI have friends who are 50+ too, you weirdo\u201d, his new response is so much more brutal.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Hughes doesn\u2019t think his age gap with JoJo Siwa is \u2018creepy\u2019<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DMit1FPtYgd\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\">\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Over the weekend, Chris posted a slew of loved-up snaps with JoJo alongside the caption: \u201cJust everything. Missing you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The pictures included them cosy on the sofa, playing golf, enjoying a meal together, and admittedly, lots of TMI kissing snaps. People in the comments were largely positive, but one lady, called Pauline, questioned, \u201cDoes anybody else find this creepy?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pauline\u2019s response sparked over 128 comments, one of which was the \u201ccreepy\u201d man himself, Chris Hughes: \u201cNo, Pauline, you\u2019re miserable, p**s off kindly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLol we see [how] long it lasts,\u201d Pauline hit back, with Chris returning with, \u201cYeah again, you don\u2019t need to speak, you don\u2019t follow me, respectfully do one thank you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-503319\" class=\"wp-image-503319 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.thetab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/28122335\/100689339-14946363-image-a-3_1753688342543-e1753701838157.avif\" alt=\"\" width=\"632\" height=\"504\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-503319\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Instagram<\/p>\n<p>There was a fairly even split in the Pauline versus Chris Hughes debate, with one person supporting her with: \u201cMate, sort yourself out. You would do anything for fame.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh, imagine hating someone who\u2019s just living and happy. Misery aren\u2019t you,\u201d another wrote back.<\/p>\n<p>In Chris\u2019 eternal words in Little Bit Leave It, \u201cBeef me on Twitter, that\u2019s a mad move.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For all the latest Love Island news and gossip,\u00a0<a class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/thispageistrash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/thispageistrash\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" data-remove-tab-index=\"true\">like The Holy Church of Love Island on Facebook.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Featured image credit: Chris Hughes<\/p>\n<p>                            <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chris put poor Pauline in her place, and it was savage Since debuting as an official couple following&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298717,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3937],"tags":[4781,312,77,1739,383,382,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-298716","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-celebrity","9":"tag-celebrity-big-brother","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-jojo-siwa","12":"tag-love-island","13":"tag-tv","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}