By Terry Zeller and Ashleigh Gray For Dailymail.Com
01:01 06 Mar 2024, up to date 01:08 06 Mar 2024
JoJo Siwa’s new look prompted comparisons to mullet-loving popular culture icons resembling Dog the Bounty Hunter and Joe Dirt.
The 20-year-old Dance Moms alum — who’s changing Nigel Lythgoe as a So You Think You Can Dance decide — took to her TikTok on Sunday in a tank high, biker shorts, outsized glasses and her blonde tresses styled brief on the perimeters and lengthy within the again.
While the social media darling was discussing a viral development together with her 45 million followers within the clip, their major focus shifted to her jaw-dropping transformation.
‘Thought this was Dog the Bounty Hunter,’ wrote one follower, as one other requested, ‘Is this Joe Dirt?,’ referring to David Spade’s titular character from his 2001 comedy.
‘Telling my youngsters that is Billy Ray Cyrus,’ added one other cheeky commenter.
Yet one other echoed the sentiment and shared, ‘Telling my youngsters that is Joe Exotic.’
She was additionally in comparison with Crocodile Dundee, Jake Paul and ‘the one drunk uncle (who) received’t go away you alone.’
JoJo has but to react to the comparisons, though one fan advised she could also be effectively conscious of them, as they wrote, ‘JoJo I do know you seeing these feedback,’ adopted by a string of laughing emojis.
The TikTok comes after JoJo revealed she is taking on as a decide on So You Think You Can Dance after Nigel stepped again amid his sexual assault lawsuits, together with one from former co-star Paula Abdul.
She introduced the update on social media Friday, sharing a joint submit with Reality Club Fox.
The caption learn: ‘Our new decide is on POINT! @jojosiwa is returning to #SYTYCD as a decide for Season 18!
She added: ‘I simply wished to say how excited I’m to be part of So You Think You Can Dance season 18.
‘Oh my gosh, this present — it is iconic and legendary for thus many causes. It has produced among the world’s biggest dancers and launched their careers.
‘And so for this present to be again and to be right here for an additional season — that is now my second season with the present — I’m past excited, past grateful.’
‘Almost each dancer that’s recognized on this planet began or an enormous step of their profession was on So You Think,’ she mentioned.
She excitedly added, ‘The expertise is definitely insane and I can not wait for everybody to see that. I can not wait to see how this season pans out.’
‘It’s going to be robust. It’s going to be a protracted course of however it is going to be so good,’ she promised.
JoJo will be a part of judges Allison Holker and Maksim Chmerkovskiy on the latest installment of the competitors sequence.
Lythgoe can be co-creator and govt producer of the Fox dance competitors sequence.
‘I’ve knowledgeable the producers of So You Think You Can Dance of my choice to step again from collaborating on this 12 months’s sequence,’ Lythgoe mentioned in a press release in early January.
‘I did so with a heavy coronary heart however completely voluntarily as a result of this nice program has at all times been about dance and dancers, and that is the place its focus wants to stay. In the meantime, I’m dedicating myself to clearing my identify and restoring my status,’ the message learn.
The 74-year-old media fixture has been a distinguished TV producer for many years in each the U.Okay. and the U.S., engaged on actuality competitors reveals together with American Idol.
Abdul alleged in a lawsuit filed on December 30 that Lythgoe twice assaulted her — first within the early 2000s when she was an American Idol decide and once more a few decade later when she was a decide on So You Think You Can Dance, which she left after two seasons.
Lythgoe referred to as the allegations an ‘appalling smear’ that he intends to battle.
It comes after Sony Pictures Television reportedly launched an investigation into explosive sexual assault claims towards the TV star.
Two ladies who have been contestants on Lythgoe’s 2003 ABC expertise present All American Girl have additionally lately claimed that he ‘brazenly swatted and groped’ their butts and tried to power himself on them when he had them alone.
The studio which produces his long-running present SYTYCD is probing no less than among the claims, based on TMZ.