JoJo Siwa Is Going Back to Her Roots — Reality TV

Days before cementing her shock-pop era rebrand with the release of her debut EP , JoJo Siwa revealed she’s going back to her roots — reality television.

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Not only that, according to Variety , Siwa is plotting her new docuseries with Jeff Collins, the creator of the series that helped launch her career, Dance Moms . The show is described in press material as a “coming-of-age” series that will chronicle Siwa’s “personal and professional life and career.” Along with Siwa, the show will feature various unspecified people from Siwa’s “inner circle.”

It continues: “Cameras will get an in-depth look into her creative process as she charts her course as an adult pop star — evolving from the beloved child star audiences adored on screen. JoJo will reveal what it’s like to be one of the world’s most famous 20-year-olds running various businesses, fulfilling a recording deal, and living by herself for the first time… For the first time, audiences will get a glimpse of the persona as she reveals who she is in the quiet moments away from the blaring lights of the stage.”

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Siwa got her start in reality TV at the age of eight when she appeared on Abby’s Ultimate Dance Competition , a Dance Moms spin-off (on which Collins worked as an executive producer). She joined Dance Moms in 2015 and parlayed her burgeoning stardom into a variety of Nickelodeon gigs; by the early 2020s, she was appearing on competition shows like The Masked Singer , So You Think You Can Dance , and Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test .

This year, though, Siwa has focused largely on music and used it as a way to break away from the clean-cut image she cultivated as a child star. She dropped her new single “Karma” in April, having previously teased it with a trigger warning of sorts, declaring the song was “not made for children and may be disturbing or offensive to some viewers.” The song anchors Siwa’s forthcoming EP, Guilty Pleasure , which arrives this Friday, July 12.

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