Who Is JoJo Siwa Dating? Everything We Know About Her Love Life in 2026

Who Is JoJo Siwa Dating Right Now?

JoJo Siwa is dating Chris Hughes, and she has been unusually open about it from the start. The confirmation came on June 2, 2025, when she told The Guardian: It's not platonic anymore, adding that it had been a beautiful development, a beautiful connection - and that she was absolutely head over heels for him, with him feeling the same way. They had met two months earlier as contestants on Celebrity Big Brother UK, entering as friends and leaving as something more.

The relationship's 2025-2026 arc has been steadily public. They made their red carpet debut in October 2025 at the Dancers Against Cancer Gala of the Stars - where Siwa received the gala's Humanitarian Award - sharing sweet PDA for the cameras. In March 2026, speaking to People at the Hannah Montana 20th Anniversary Special premiere, she called Hughes her very sweet love Christopher and revealed their story had inspired her single Serendipity, released April 7, 2026: Our lives connecting and meeting are like serendipity. It's my favorite word, so I had to write a song about it. She added that the relationship stays strong because of how right it feels: I think that when it's meant to be, it is, and when it's meant to be, it'll be right. It was the most relaxed she had ever sounded discussing a relationship in public.

As of October 2026, the couple is sixteen months in with no signs of slowing. There has already been talk of marriage, kids, and moving in together - and a pregnancy rumor in October 2026, sparked when Hughes posted a video that sent fans into speculation overdrive. Siwa shut it down the JoJo way: a playful TikTok two truths and a lie naming I'm pregnant as the lie. The rumor was baseless; the relationship is not.

Who Is Chris Hughes, JoJo Siwa's Boyfriend?

Chris Hughes, 33, is a British television personality who found fame on Love Island UK in 2017, finishing third alongside Olivia Attwood. Born December 22, 1992, in Gloucestershire, England, he parlayed the villa into a presenting career - and into a very different kind of fame than Siwa's. Where she was built over a decade on Nickelodeon, Dance Moms, and arena tours, Hughes entered public life through the compressed, vote-driven environment of reality TV, learning overnight how a single on-air comment can dominate tabloids for a month.

The contrast is part of what makes the pairing interesting. Siwa's team has managed press cycles for years; she treats cameras as daily logistics. Hughes has described the adjustment to her level of fame as turning the volume up another notch - strangers approaching them on sidewalks in cities where he was previously anonymous. He has framed the change as manageable but constant, and by all accounts has adapted with good humor.

Before Siwa, Hughes's dating life was standard reality-star fare - public, brief, and well-documented by the British press. The Siwa relationship is his first with an American star of her magnitude, and his first to generate transatlantic coverage. Sixteen months in, he has gone from Love Island alum to one-half of a celebrity couple with genuine cultural footprint - and he seems, by every interview, to be enjoying the ride.

How JoJo Siwa and Chris Hughes Met: Celebrity Big Brother UK

They met in April 2025, as housemates on Celebrity Big Brother UK - the British reality series that locks celebrities in a house together under 24-hour surveillance. Siwa and Hughes became friends during filming, and the friendship continued developing after the show ended. By June 2025, Siwa was telling The Guardian it was not platonic anymore.

The Big Brother origin story matters because of what the show does to people: weeks of forced proximity, no phones, cameras everywhere - a pressure cooker that either forges real bonds or spectacular fallouts. For Siwa and Hughes, it forged the former. Viewers watched the friendship form in real time, which gave the later romance a foundation of public goodwill unusual for celebrity couples: the audience felt like they were there for the beginning.

There is also the transatlantic wrinkle. She is American, based in Los Angeles; he is British, based in the UK. The relationship has therefore played out across two continents from the start - red carpets in both countries, social media bridging the gaps, and a fair amount of travel. That it has survived sixteen months of long-distance logistics says something about the commitment on both sides.

JoJo Siwa and Chris Hughes: Relationship Timeline

From housemates to head-over-heels in sixteen months.

A few details color in the timeline. The Serendipity single was the relationship's creative milestone - Siwa has always processed her life through music, and writing a love song about Hughes made the romance part of her art, not just her press. The August 2026 E! News conversation was the identity milestone: discussing why she now identifies as queer rather than lesbian, and how dating Hughes brought a scrutiny she had not expected. And the October 2026 pregnancy rumor - sparked by an innocuous video of Hughes welcoming her back to the UK - showed the relationship's scale: sixteen months in, fans are already manifesting the next chapter.

Through it all, the tone has been remarkably consistent: open, affectionate, unbothered. Siwa spent years as one of the most managed young stars in the business; with Hughes, she has chosen to be the narrator of her own love story, in real time.

The Identity Conversation: Siwa on Sexuality and Scrutiny

The Hughes relationship arrived with a cultural conversation Siwa did not entirely choose but has handled head-on. She came out in 2021, initially describing herself as gay rather than lesbian - I don't hate the word lesbian, she said in 2022, it just doesn't flow off the tongue for me. Dating Hughes, a man, prompted questions, and she has answered them directly: queer is the term that fits best now. Queer is an umbrella of, Look, I'm just me, she told E! News, adding that the most beautiful thing about the LGBTQIA community is love is love.

She has been candid that the scrutiny surprised her. During an appearance on the Hot Goss show, she said: Coming out dating a man, for me, ended up getting more scrutiny than coming out dating a girl. It is an honest observation about the particular pressures on queer identity in public - and she has met it with a consistent message: the freedom to define herself on her own terms, rather than fitting into someone else's expectations.

Before Hughes, Siwa's most recent public relationship was with former So You Think You Can Dance contestant Dakayla Wilson in late 2024 - a three-month romance she discussed at Rhode Island Comic Con. The Wilson chapter was brief; the Hughes chapter has lasted more than five times as long and generated a fraction of the drama. For Siwa, now 23, the throughline is self-definition: she came out on her terms, she labels herself on her terms, and she dates on her terms. The audience is invited to watch, not to vote.

What's Next for Siwa and Hughes

The couple has been open that the future includes the big milestones: marriage, kids, moving in together have all been discussed publicly, less than two years into the relationship. Siwa has long spoken about wanting a family - she has discussed freezing eggs and surrogacy in past interviews - and she recently admitted to pestering Hughes about children: We pester each other about it. The October 2026 pregnancy rumor, baseless as it was, suggests the public is already ahead of them on the timeline.

Professionally, Siwa continues to build her post-Nickelodeon music career - Serendipity and its parent project - while Hughes navigates his expanded profile. The transatlantic logistics remain the practical challenge: two careers, two continents, one relationship. Sixteen months in, they seem to have found the rhythm.

As of October 2026: dating since June 2025, sixteen months strong, creatively intertwined, publicly affectionate, and unbothered by the noise. JoJo Siwa spent her childhood performing for the cameras. With Chris Hughes, for the first time, the performance and the person look like the same thing - and the audience, for once, is not being asked to vote on the outcome.

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