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JoJo Siwa Seemingly CALLS OUT Nickelodeon After Coming Out
JoJo Siwa is firing backmost astatine a past leader with eyebrow-raising comments.
The erstwhile Nickelodeon star recently slammed an unnamed institution for its alleged response to her coming retired arsenic a member of the LGBTQ+ community successful January 2021.
"The institution I enactment for told maine they needed to person a gathering w/ maine ASAP," the 19-year-old recalled in a March 22 TikTok. "During this meeting, the PRESIDENT of the institution negatively asked maine 'What are you gonna archer your young demographic?' I took a 2nd to process what I was conscionable asked, and then, I replied…'the truth.'"
In the video, which features her dancing to Meghan Trainor's way "Mother," JoJo past shared the executive's alleged absorption to her candid response.
"I've ne'er seen a antheral rotation his eyes truthful acold successful the backmost of his head," she continued. "It was silent, truthful I started talking again. I said 'I'm not gonna fell who I americium and who I emotion to anyone, ESPECIALLY to the adjacent generation.' He didn't similar that precise much."
A Nickelodeon spokesperson told E! News successful a connection that the incidental did not instrumentality place at the company, which antecedently posted a connection of support days aft JoJo came retired successful 2021.
"We are unaware of what incidental oregon gathering JoJo is referencing, but it surely did not hap astatine Nickelodeon," the March 23 connection read. "We person valued and supported JoJo since time 1 of our narration unneurotic and we inactive bash today."
As for the Dance Moms alum, she said she doesn't person immoderate regrets astir surviving her beingness authentically. In fact, she noted that her travel has touched others who've related to her experience.
"Since I came retired SO galore adults accidental to maine 'I privation I had idiosyncratic similar you erstwhile I was younger,'" JoJo continued, "which reminds maine each clip that I did the close happening and to ne'er fto ANYONE alteration who you are."
Even though JoJo did not explicitly sanction immoderate peculiar company, she's antecedently been outspoken astir her narration with Nickelodeon. In April 2022, she revealed that contempt being nominated for an grant astatine the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards, she was not invited to the event.
"A batch of you person been asking maine wherefore I'm not astatine the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards contiguous and the reply is precise simple: I wasn't invited," she explained in a video astatine the time. "I'm not definite why, but I conscionable didn't get an invite."
She besides criticized Nickelodeon successful 2021 for its alleged attraction of her D.R.E.A.M. The Tour, accusing the institution of banning songs from the acceptable list.
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"My movie philharmonic [The J Team] was conscionable released (with 6 caller archetypal songs)," she tweeted September 2021. "Nickelodeon told maine contiguous that I'm not allowed to perform/add immoderate of the songs from the movie into my show. These are MY songs, MY voice, MY writing. Does this look fair??? There is nary crushed that this euphony should not beryllium included. Working for a institution arsenic a existent quality being treated arsenic lone a marque is amusive until it's not."
The superstar's caller words connected TikTok comes arsenic she celebrated the two-year anniversary of her coming retired travel this past January, penning connected Instagram that she was "SO proud of 17 twelvemonth aged JoJo" for staying existent to herself.
"Now that the satellite gets to spot this broadside of my life, it makes maine really, truly happy," she said successful her message. "I've been blessed successful this onshore for a infinitesimal now. And present though that I conscionable get to stock that with the world, it's awesome."
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