JoJo Siwa and Kath Ebb break-up and Chris Hughes 'soulmate' drama explained

The initial rumors

For those unaware, a few weeks ago, Mickey Rourke was removed from the Big Brother house after he essentially told Siwa she wasn’t really a lesbian and she’d be back to men soon. This prompted Hughes to offer Siwa supportby way of cuddling and subtly admitting feelings for her.

A few weeks later, Siwa sparked another controversy when she, in fact, did decide she wasno longer a lesbian and opted to “switch letters” to identify as “queer” instead.

The latter situation sent fans into a frenzy, particularly due to Siwa fanning the “all lesbians are secretly into men” flames started by Rourke.

Outside of that, fans also wondered how Siwa’s partner, Kath Ebbs, felt while watching this all unfold from back home.

The escalation to heartbreak

Well, unfortunately, things have come to an end between Siwa and Ebbs, who posted a video over the weekend detailing how the two broke up—after Ebbs flew halfway across the world to support Siwa in the Big Brother finale.

According to Ebbs, prior to Siwa heading off to the show, they were told they were the love of Siwa’s life and that Siwa had asked to marry them. They admitted they were hurt watching what went down on the show, but that they wanted clarity over the whole situation, which ultimately left them humiliated.

“I flew here [to London] and I went to the live show to show up for my partner and support them in their experience and, obviously, I wanted to address my feelings of hurt and work through them like all relationships do,” they said in the three-minute video.

“But before I could even get back to the hotel, I went to the after party with my, I guess now ex, and was dumped at the party. I was told there were ‘confused feelings’ there, do with that what you will, and that they had realized in the house that I wasn’t the person they wanted to spend their foreseeable future with.”

Siwa addresses the breakup herself

After being photographed together over the weekend at a golf club, Siwa and Hughes also went on the U.K.’s This Morning on April 28, where Siwa addressed the breakup by saying it was “not a plan” and that it was “not supposed to happen like that.”

“Initially, I was told that the wrap party was something they [Kath] didn’t want to attend, and then about an hour into the wrap party, they decided they wanted to,” she said. “And I was genuinely just going to have a conversation before and…they straight up asked me if I was happy and I said, ‘No.’”

Are Siwa and Hughes together?

Still, both Siwa and Hughes maintain that they have a “platonic friendship” that Hughes described as a “really strong bond between two people” in the interview, saying people can “have, like, a soulmate friendship.”