'If I saw her, I would just not say hi,' JoJo Siwa said of Candace Cameron Bure on her podcast, two years after their public feud.
JoJo Siwa and Candace Cameron Bure won't be on a podcast together anytime soon.
On the latest episode of her iHeartRadio podcast, JoJo Siwa Now, the 21-year-old Dance Moms alum revealed the people she would never invite as guests on her show. Bure, 48, was unsurprisingly second on the list, which comes two years after their viral feud.
Their "very, very public beef" started in July 2022 on "accident" when, as part of a TikTok challenge, Siwa said Bure was the "rudest celebrity" she's ever met. Siwa later revealed the encounter that led her to give Bure that label, recalling the time when she was 11 and asked the Fuller House star for a photo. Siwa said the actress said no because it "wasn't a good time for her" but proceeded to take pictures with other people.
"It really was an accident," Siwa said on her podcast of starting the public feud. "I did not mean for it to go as viral as it was."
"To me, personally, the rudest celebrity I'd ever met was Candace Cameron. She wasn't nice to me when I met her. That doesn't mean she's an awful rude person," Siwa continued. "That just means that she was the rudest that I ever met. Whatever. [I] flashed it quick, thought no one was going to ever see it."
Siwa admitted she initially felt bad about the situation since they have some mutual friends, but the guilt didn't last long.
"But then I found out some things about Candace that I was like, wait this, this actually is pretty valid. And I found out some shady things that she has done and some shady organizations that she has worked with," Siwa said. "It goes back to wanting to stand up for my people, but not wanting to create drama that doesn't necessarily need to be there."
Siwa has previously stood by her decision to call Bure the rudest celebrity she's met. Although Siwa noted that the two talked about the drama when everything went down and the actress "was honestly pretty sweet" to her about it, four months later, drama would spark between the pair once again.
In November 2022, Bure announced she was leaving Hallmark Channel for Christian conservative network Great American Family in an effort to "promote faith programming and good family entertainment" while keeping "traditional marriage at the core." At the time, Siwa called Bure's statement "rude and hurtful to a whole community of people."
"Honestly, I can't believe after everything that went down just a few months ago, that she would not only create a movie with intention of excluding LGBTQIA+, but then also talk about it in the press," Siwa said at the time on Instagram. "This is rude and hurtful to a whole community of people."
On her podcast, Siwa explained that she felt Bure's words were "basically calling gay marriage not traditional and gay marriage weird," and that LGBTQIA+ marriage was something she "didn't want to publicize."
Siwa added, "Whether she meant to do that or not, she still did it, and it still stung the community. Of course, you know, we're doing all this work to be more visible and out there for kids in the next generation to feel more normal."
Even though "there's no real shade anymore" between Siwa and Bure, Siwa still "wouldn't have her on my podcast."
"We just don't walk on the same side of the road," Siwa concluded. "If I saw her, I would just not say hi."
Siwa also wouldn't invite Candace Owens, Trisha Paytas, "a lot of my exes" and any "future lovers" on her podcast.
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