JOJO Siwa put on a brave face as she made a heartbreaking admission on reality show Special Forces in 2023 – revealing she doesn’t have any childhood friends.
The 21-year-old star took part in the US version of SAS Who Dares Wins and opened up during her intense recruit interview with the show’s Chief Instructor.
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But the exchange left viewers stunned.
The instructor bluntly asked: “Who are your friends?”
JoJo replied: “My friends? They’re just other celebrities. I just met them all.”
He then followed up: “Who’s your favourite celebrity?”
She answered: “I like Elton John. He’s a really good friend of mine, actually.”
Despite her upbeat tone, the confession painted a picture of isolation behind her glittering showbiz life.
JoJo’s admission sparked concern among fans about the pressures of growing up in the spotlight and the personal cost of fame.
One shocked viewer commented: “‘Just met them all’ — so she hasn’t had any friends from her childhood up until now?”
Another wrote: “Now I feel sorry for her! She is so young and has no life. She thinks Elton John is her friend!!! He is an old man in England! She doesn’t have a bestie!”
A third said: “I didn’t think I’d ever feel sorry for JoJo Siwa, but honestly I kinda see her in a new light knowing that. Poor girl’s been sheltered her entire life.”
The Dance Mom alum was one of 14 celebrities who took part and made it to the eighth episode before withdrawing from the gruelling course.
JoJo found fame on reality TV show Dance Moms when she was nine years old and made millions selling big hair bows
Her talk with the Special Forces instructor did the rounds on TikTok days after she split from partner Kath Ebbs at the Celebrity Big Brother wrap party.
Reality TV onlookers claimed her onscreen chemistry with former Love Islander star Chris Hughes in the Celebrity Big Brother house may have played a part.
It came after singer JoJo revealed she was queer and not a lesbian while in CBB.
Kath has since taken a swipe at Chris, claiming he manipulated JoJo on national TV and “pretended” to be her “safe space”.
But as she touched back down in LA today, JoJo took a swipe at Kath.
She was asked by The Sun at the airport: “What was your biggest take away from it?” to which she appeared to make a veiled reference to Kath.
JoJo said: “Biggest takeaway? Probably [that I] learned more about myself and yeah I think that I had a lot of things in my life I wasn’t happy about.
“And being there forced me to change that, and that’s good. I needed that.”
Over the weekend, Kath was pictured for the first time since the split.
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