Chris Hughes has been spilling some serious beans on his relationship with JoJo Siwa—including intimate details of their first kiss.
The 32-year-old Love Island star met the Dance Moms alum, 22, in the Celebrity Big Brother house earlier this year, where they quickly formed a close, tactile friendship.
At the time, JoJo was dating 27-year-old Australian musician Kath Ebbs and identified publicly as a lesbian.
However, she and her partner called it quits in a showdown at the CBB wrap party, with JoJo later striking up a romance with Chris, from whom she is now seemingly unable to be apart, as they frequently jet between the UK and the US to spend time together.
While JoJo frequently gives a glimpse inside their relationship on her millions-strong social media platforms, it’s taken a little longer for Chris to sit down for a tell-all interview.
But now that he has, he isn’t holding back, revealing to The Sun just when the line was crossed from platonic to romantic for him and JoJo.
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Recalling their holiday to Mexico City a couple of months ago, when Chris flew out to surprise JoJo, he said he had been ‘so sad’ when she left to go back to the States.
‘We were just friends at that stage, but we were talking all the time. I was missing her, and I felt like I needed to see her,’ he confessed.
While on the trip, Chris realised that he was experiencing happiness ‘from the minute [he] woke up until [he] went to bed,’ which prompted the flick of the switch.
‘It was at that moment something fully ignited inside me.’
After they both opened up about their feelings for one another, they shared a smooch, which Chris says was ‘really special’.
‘Our first kiss was genuinely special—it felt like I was in a movie. I can’t keep my hands off her now!’, he said.
Asked if the couple have since exchanged the L word, Chris admitted he tells JoJo that he loves her ‘every day’.
‘She’s the last person I speak to at night and the first I speak to when I wake up,’ he said.
‘I can’t explain it, but it’s a safe love. It’s like a natural high.’
The TV personality went on to shut down critics of their blossoming romance, having even started thinking about his wedding day with JoJo, more than proving he’s in it for the long run.
Asked his response to those accusing him of clout-chasing and publicising a ‘fake’ relationship, a defiant Chris declared: ‘I don’t care.
‘I wouldn’t go to the effort of loving someone for any other reason than it being real.’
Having spent the last eight years in showbiz, he’s learned to ‘adapt’ to facing criticism, with the attention directed his way in recent months only making him ‘stronger mentally’.
‘I’ve had more people call me “gay” in the last two months of my life than ever before,’ he added. ‘But it doesn’t bother me—as long as people aren’t nasty, opinions are fine.
‘I may be feminine in the way I do things, but I wouldn’t change the way I am for anything.’
As for JoJo, who calls Chris ‘my sweet Christopher,’ this is her first public relationship with a man.
Chris insists that ‘love is love,’ and since JoJo now resonates more with the label ‘queer’, she is ‘still part of the LGBTQ+ community’.
What’s more, he firmly denies ever trying to ‘change’ JoJo, or even wanting to.
‘Sexuality can be fluid, and you should be able to love who you want without judgement.’
Chris’s comments come after JoJo reacted to pregnancy rumours online, after fans noticed he had been stroking her tummy in videos.
Adding fuel to the fire, JoJo used being pregnant as one of her ‘two truths, one lie’ options in a recent TikTok, noting that ‘a couple of things needed to be addressed’.
The other two listed were that she has never smoked a cigarette and that she’d be releasing a new song this week.
While some believe the pregnancy thing still has legs, others realised it was simply a witty marketing ploy for her latest single, which is a cover of Bette Davis Eyes.
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