Jojo Siwa Won’t Back Down in Her Feud With ‘Full House’ Star Candace Cameron Bure: We Are “Never Going to Be Friends”

Dance Moms alum Jojo Siwa has not changed how she feels about Full House star Candace Cameron Bure, even a year after calling the Great American Family network star the “rudest celebrity” she had ever met.

Siwa, who first called out Bure in a viral TikTok posted in July 2022, said on a recent podcast appearance that she and Bure “are never going to agree” and “are never going to be friends [or] get along.”

Siwa made her comments to former Bachelor star Nick Viall on Thursday’s (July 27) episode of his Viall Files podcast. Siwa, who is openly pansexual, told Viall that she thought Bure “put down” the LGBTQIA+ community when she said Great American Family would keep “traditional marriage at the core” of their films.

Bure made her comments while promoting A Christmas… Present in an interview with The Wall Street Journal last winter. She said at the time that the network, like herself, sets out to promote “faith programming and good family entertainment.”

Siwa reflected on Bure’s comments while speaking with Viall Thursday. She said, “It’s fine if you are doing it because it’s just your movie’s storyline and it’s just it is what it is, like … not everything needs to be gay essentially. But when you’re doing it out of spite to say that, ‘Too much is about LGBTQ right now and you guys suck and I want to make a movie about traditional marriage and you’re not traditional,’ that got to me a little bit.”

Siwa, who blasted Bure on Instagram after her Wall Street Journal interview — calling her words “rude and hurtful to a whole community of people” — told Viall that she was glad she chose to “stand up” and speak out.

Siwa told Viall she is “okay with calling [Bure] out in the way that [she] did.” While she “regretted it” for a while, she came to a realization after reading the WSJ article, detailing that the two likely “are never going to agree” and “are never going to be friends [or] get along.”

“After I found out that article about her not wanting anything to do with LGBTQIA … that’s my people,” she said. “I gotta stand up for my people. That’s messed up.”

Siwa added, “I wish she was able to be a little more open, a little more accepting.”

Bure previously attempted to defend herself after her traditional marriage comments, writing on Instagram in November 2022, in part, “I have great love and affection for all people. It absolutely breaks my heart that anyone would ever think I intentionally would want to offend and hurt anyone.”