JoJo Siwa Claims Nickelodeon ‘Blackballed’ Her After She Got here Out as homosexual (Chelsea Guglielmino/WireImage by way of Getty Pictures)
JoJo Siwa has claimed that Nickelodeon “blackballed” her after she got here out in Demi Lovato’s upcoming documentary specializing in baby stars.
Siwa, who rose to fame on actuality present Dance Mothers and has been on tv for the reason that age of 9, appeared in Lovato’s Youngster Star, the place she alleged the therapy by the youngsters’s channel after she introduced in 2021 that she was a part of the LGBTQ+ group. Since then, she has stated she identifies as a lesbian.
Based on an article in The Hollywood Reporter, Siwa claimed that her relationship with Nickelodeon, the place she had labored for the reason that age of 13, was by no means the identical after she got here out.
“I mainly acquired blackballed from the corporate,” she stated.
She added that the president of Nickelodeon allegedly requested her: “What are we going to inform the children?” to which she replied, “That I’m comfortable?”
A spokesperson for Nickelodeon denied the declare, saying: “We’re unaware of the incident JoJo is referencing and he or she was actually not blackballed by Nickelodeon.
“We’ve got valued and supported JoJo all through our extremely profitable partnership, which included a JoJo-themed Satisfaction assortment at a serious nationwide retailer, amongst our many collaborations collectively. We proceed to cheer her on and need her nothing however the very best.”
Lovato’s directorial will discover the struggles of kid stardom and have conversations with different actors and artists who’ve been well-known since childhood, together with Drew Barrymore, who grew to become a family title aged seven, after showing in Steven Spielberg’s ET in 1982, Christina Ricci, who starred reverse Cher in Mermaids on the age of 10, and Disney favorite Raven-Symoné.
“I didn’t realise that baby stardom might be traumatic, and it isn’t traumatic for everybody, however for me it was,” Lovato stated.
The previous Barney & Associates star wouldn’t enable any baby of her to pursue fame till maturity.
“I’d say: ‘Let’s examine music principle and put together you for the day you flip 18 as a result of it’s not taking place earlier than that. Not as a result of I don’t consider in you or love you or need you to be comfortable however as a result of I need you to have a childhood, the childhood I didn’t have’.”
Youngster Star is ready to air on Hulu within the US on 17 September.
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