Is Jojo Siwa Letting Down Lesbians Or Are We Over Intellectualising Reality TV?
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4.5 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Who'd have thought at the announcement of this year's Celebrity Big Brother cast that the two people being chatted about the most are Jojo Siwa and ex-Love Islander Chris Hughes. If you didn't know - the pair's intimate friendship in the house caused chaos on social media as many accused Jojo of emotionally cheating on her partner, the Neighbours actor Kath Ebbs.
In this week's episode, our hosts Ione and Gina break down Jojo's complicated time in the limelight from Dance Moms to coming out to now, what queer celebrities owe to the communities they represent and why we all keep taking reality telly at face value.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi Gina. Hi, Ioni. Hi everyone. I'm Gina, the senior editor-in-chief of Pollyester. And I'm Aione, the founding editor-in-chief of Pollyester, and this is The Polyester podcast. A feminist pop culture podcast dissecting the discourse on a weekly basis. Before we start, we've just relaunched our membership platform to include loads of new perks, including exclusive podcast-sended ones. |
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| 0:47.1 | five stars. I can't believe you've done this. I'm so annoyed, do you? You're such a little dickhead. Love listening to these two chat. I only has the best points of view. I love their back and forth banter and the friendship really shines through. And who's that from, Gina? X, P-O-S-I-M-A-V-X. And who's that? Hossimov. And who's that? My answer! Anyway. Sorry, give you a lovely shout out there. Yeah, nice shout out, but I know you wrote it on his phone. Anyway, it's an amazing podcast, thank you. Thank you, Posse Muff. On Spotify, we have some real thoughts and reviews. One from Maddie O's saying, this is my first episode and I really liked it, |
| 1:28.0 | eager to work through the back catalogue. Thank you, Madi. And Penelope said, the name, this from two weeks ago now, so hopefully people remember. The name of the spiral game is MASH. One of my all-time faves to play. Epic episode is always love listening to you guys. Thank you, Penelope. Thank you, everyone and sorry we were off last week. |
| 1:45.5 | Yeah, sorry, there was a lot of moving parts, but we did do an Instagram post of, like, what we were going to talk about, analysing, not analysing, but talking about the... Discussing the Trans-Supreme Court verdict? R Rule in. Whatever. |
| 2:02.6 | And the like repercussions off that. |
| 2:10.7 | And yeah, I think we still have a link in our bio to donate to the Good Law Project, I think, is the name. |
| 2:11.6 | Yeah. |
| 2:16.7 | Which is basically looking to challenge the Supreme Court decision. |
| 2:34.8 | But today we're talking about JoJo, so you Two kind of different topics. Is this our, well, linked? Irrevocably linked. Is this our second JoJo Seaw episode as well? It is as well, because I was looking and I was like, we've done Jojo Sea War before, so I was like trying to find what we actually said. we did it in our gay pop episodes so we didn't talk about our lords we talked more about like chapel |
| 2:38.4 | and Renee rap and brought in Jojo a little bit because at the time it was kind of when karma came out |
| 2:44.3 | and she was doing was like bait she was going to like invent gay pop right yeah doing those |
| 2:48.9 | a bait interviews being like I'm going to be the first person to invent gay pop, and everyone was like, what, about a hundred years too late? Yeah. So since then and now, Jojo has been fairly quiet. Well, still trying to get attention, but I don't think she really had, like, a moment. Yeah. She did that cover where she was wearing, like, a... Godpiece. I was going to say that, but I thought it was going to be wrong and you're going to laugh at me. It's a funny thing to laugh at it anyway. Was it Scaparelli? Huh? Was it Scaparelli? No way. No way in hell. What was it? Just like a small designer. Oh, it's nice. Maybe even custom. Did you like it? No. I think it's gone too far. Like stunt covers. Booking stunt covers. Well, yeah, famously. Yeah. We only do really serious covers about people who we like. Well, yeah. And it's okay if you like JJ Sewell, but I think this wasn't honest. No, not at all. But yeah, she's kind of done that. It's in the time since doing the calm song. I don't think she's in another song. She's had a few, like, on and off. She's probably done a few songs. She's had a few on and off relationships. More than a few. Um, and then... I feel like I'm doing a rap |
| 3:57.8 | and you're like to like |
| 3:58.6 | back in her |
| 3:59.6 | so if you are in off relationships |
| 4:04.4 | the most recent being with |
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