Celebrity Big Brother star reveals truth behind JoJo Siwa and Chris' 'powerful' bond

Trisha Goddard praised her co-star JoJo Siwa and her "powerful" friendship with housemate Chris Hughes.

US star JoJo and favourite Chris have struck up a close bond over the past week in the house. The friendship has caused drama with some of their housemates, with them

Amid viewers calling out housemates including about the pair, calling them "jealous", other fans have shared their confusion over JoJo and Chris' "" and super close friendship. With the duo always hanging out and having late-night chats, even communicating , the latest episode of the series saw

She then confessed all to her co-stars, sharing a discussion she "wasn't ready to have" but had confided in Chris about, before speaking with Trisha. In the same episode we had seen Trisha suggesting the pair were game playing to "increase their fan bases".

But speaking on Late and Live after her eviction on Tuesday night, the TV legend U-turned on this view, before praising JoJo and her bond with Chris. She told hosts and : "I think there are lots of different reasons why people form alliances.

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"I had a talk with Chris after that and Chris is a 31-year-old man in a 19-year-old's body, he admitted that. He and JoJo have really connected." She added JoJo could be "free" in the house and be herself, and that she and Chris "clicked".

As host AJ once again brought up the game playing comment later on, Trisha then went into detail about the truth regarding JoJo and Chris' close bond, with Chris being someone JoJo can talk to about things she may not be comfortable speaking about to others.

She revealed: "I had a long, couple of talks with JoJo about her sexuality. Young people, when they are confused... a lot of things were coming up for JoJo which maybe she couldn't explore when she's got managers and everyone else around her, it was a really intense time for her.

"She opened up to me and people she thought were LGBTQ allies which I am damn proud I am. I just wanna say when young people are in these situations, if they can find somebody to talk about it even if it's at 2 o'clock in the morning.

"To talk about the confusion and their feelings because all these feelings, she's always on tour is JoJo and suddenly she's got some time and all these feelings come out. If she can talk to someone - she talked to me, and talked to Chris - I think that's really important.

"At the moment in this , certainly in America where I live and certainly even here, the tide has turned against LGBTQ people again and it's making a lot of young people in JoJo's situation feel very threatened and scared, so if they can find an ally, if they can talk to somebody it's a really powerful thing."

Trisha's comments came after JoJo told Big Brother of her and Chris' secret messages: "It’s something that I’m not ready necessarily to be open about or upfront about but it has to do with gender and how do I feel. Let’s put it this way. Oh my God, this is a lot.

"Essentially, you have female, you have male. I’ve met a lot of females and love them but don’t feel like I’m them. Met a lot of males, love them but definitely not them.

“I’ve met a lot of people in my life that are non-binary and these beautiful non-binary people are who I feel the most like. It’s not something that I want to say about myself yet but it’s something that is confusing. So, that’s probably why we were talking about it last night.”

thanked JoJo for her honesty, saying: "JoJo, thank you for being so honest and sharing with Big Brother." "Of course. It’s important to be honest and I think it’s important to show that it’s ok to not know," JoJo added before Chris comforted her and said: "That was good. Good job."

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