JoJo Siwa’s ex Kath Ebbs blasts ‘attacks on my character’ after Celebrity Big Brother split

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Kath Ebbs has called out their ex-girlfriend Celebrity Big Brother star JoJo Siwa’s handling of their public split.

The Australian influencer, 27, said ‘attacks on my character are not taken lightly’ after JoJo, 21, alluded to them ‘breaking boundaries’ while she was on the ITV show.

They said in a statement to Metro: ‘It’s really unfortunate that my relationship with this person is being reduced to untrue allegations about what happened at a party. The public has only heard one side of the story.

‘Attacks on my character are not something I take lightly, especially from someone I cared for deeply and shared a committed relationship with.’

Their break-up came after JoJo was at the centre of intense scrutiny over her close friendship with Love Island star Chris Hughes, 32, in the Big Brother house.

However, she has since denied that he was a factor in their break-up and insisted that their relationship is purely platonic.

JoJo Siwa and Kath Ebbs broke up at the Celebrity Big Brother after party (Picture: Christopher Polk/Variety via Getty Images) Get personalised updates on CBB in your inbox

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‘Kath posted a video basically alluding that Chris was the reason we broke up and that’s not the case. It’s not the truth,’ she said.

JoJo then shut down Kath’s version of events and said it was not her intention to end their relationship at the wrap party.

JoJo claimed she wanted space alone to ‘formulate’ her thoughts, but she and Kath ended up having a serious conversation about their romance.

During the discussion, JoJo said she broke after being grilled and revealed she was conflicted about their future together.

JoJo denies that her split was sparked by her friendship with Chris (Pic Ken McKay/ITV/Shutterstock)

This revelation prompted the breakup, TV personality JoJo said on The Viall Files podcast.

JoJo also claimed she was having second thoughts about their partnership as Kath had ‘broken boundaries’ while she was on Celebrity Big Brother.

She continued: ‘That’s something that, it wasn’t big enough for me to care about, but it’s something that I specifically asked, hey for the twenty days just can it with a few conversations and those conversations actually picked up more. They had in person ones as well.

‘That for me was like okay, I’m ending things anyway, it’s just another reason, another piece of pie on the plate.’ 

Reflecting on the chain of events that ended their relationship, JoJo said: ‘Out of respect for another human in the situation, they have asked me not to speak about it or them. 

Chris and JoJo grew very close in the Celebrity Big Brother house (Picture: ITV) JoJo has denied Kath’s version of the events around their split (Picture: Don Arnold/WireImage)

‘I told them that’s going to make me seem avoidant of the situation, and I’m not avoidant of the situation. Obviously, a lot of people think that Chris has something to do with it.  

‘Chris does not have absolutely anything to do with it. Chris and I are friends, we have a very great friendship. It’s a very special bond, unlike any friendship I’ve ever created, but my situations are completely unrelated, and that kind of got misconstrued, and that’s hard because it’s kind of feeding a false narrative.

‘They [Kath] said I broke up with them at the wrap party. That’s not entirely the story. The story goes, they had mentioned to production they did not want to come to the wrap party. I said all good, I’m gonna go.’

Before the wrap party, JoJo said she was having ‘crazy thoughts’ and needed to be alone to ‘formulate’ them, so she was not in the right headspace for a heartfelt conversation.

She relayed this to Kath: ‘I was honest about that and I mentioned to them look I know you don’t want to come to the afterparty but I’m gonna go and then I’m gonna go to my hotel, I’m gonna go on my phone so why don’t you go to yours and we’ll reconveine tomorrow morning.’

JoJo said Kath decided against going to the afterparty before changing their mind (Picture: chesneyhawkesofficial/Instagram)