JoJo Siwa says her team ‘tried to discourage’ her from doing Celebrity Big Brother

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JoJo Siwa has revealed that she insisted on doing Celebrity Big Brother despite her team’s reservations over whether it would be wise.

“It’s funny because going into the experience, nobody on my team wanted me to do it and everyone tried to discourage me from doing it,” the former Nickelodeon star told PEOPLE recently. “But for some reason, I was really set on doing it.

“Right before I went in, the last thing I told my mom is, I said, ‘Mom, I think this is going to be the best thing I’ve ever done in my life.’ And I wasn’t speaking about my career, I was speaking about my life and I think I was accurate on that,” Siwa went on.

The former child star

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