JoJo Siwa attends the red carpet for Fox’s “Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test” on Sept. 12, 2023 in Los Angeles.Photo:Kevin Winter/Getty
Kevin Winter/Getty
JoJo Siwawent all in on her preparation forSpecial Forces: World’s Toughest Test.
TheDance Momsalum, 20, admitted to PEOPLE she took the boot camp training for season 2 of the Fox reality competition very seriously — and she took her costarsNick ViallandTyler Cameronto task if they weren’t falling in line.
“I was psycho. I would stand at the door and be like, ‘Nick, your bottom left button. Tyler, your right shoe. Phone… Not phone. Instead of phone, wallet, keys, you say hat, gloves, armband. Your zipper’s undone. Your button’s undone. Everyone, we’re wearing this, this and that,'” she recalled Tuesday at a Los Angeles press event for the show.
JoJo Siwa takes part in the latest season of ‘Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test.'.PETE DADDS / FOX
PETE DADDS / FOX
Despite going into drill sergeant mode with theBachelorNation stars, Siwa said the pair kept her sane amid the physically and mentally taxing experience.
“I’m lucky that I had Nick there and I’m lucky that I had Tyler there andBode [Miller]and we all got super close, but definitely Nick and Tyler is who I was like, ‘Thank God I have these people here. Because if I didn’t have y’all, nah,'” she continues.
Viall, 42, shared the sentiment, saying he felt “lucky” to have met Siwa. “Maybe there was a world in which JoJo and I would’ve made friends and became fast friends, but certainlySpecial Forcesbrought us together, and I anticipate being each other’s lives for a long time,” he told PEOPLE.
The “D.R.E.A.M.” singer recounted a moment when Viall came to her rescue when her feet were so cold from all the time outside — the show was filmed on the mountains of New Zealand as contestants were put through “winter warfare training” — that she worried she’d have to bow out of the show.
“We were driving back and I really thought I was going to have to leave because my feet — it was beyond the point of freezing. And I took my boots off … and I was like, ‘My feet, you guys, they’re just… I don’t know what to do.’ And Nick was like, ‘Put your feet up here.'”
The reality star and podcast host then took Siwa’s feet into his hands and began squeezing them to warm them up. “The reason my feet are attached to my body still is because of you. They would’ve fallen off,” she told Viall.
The trio recently reunitedafter filming and attended aZach Bryanconcert together, along with Viall’s fiancéeNatalie Joy.
“The band is back together!!” Siwa declared in an Aug. 24Instagram post, alongside photos and video clips of the group enjoying the concert.
“If someone told me a year ago that these 2 boys would become such a massive part of my life I would’ve never believed you…” she continued. “Special Forces brought us together just a few months ago and mannnn am I grateful🤍 for these 2 AND for the rest of the chosen family gained from forces, a bond that will last for life!!”
Viall left Siwa a comment on the post, poking fun at her over-the-top dedication to the boot camp. “Thanks for keeping us in line, duty recruit ❤️,” he wrote.
Cameron, 30, wrote, “Love you jojo! So grateful that we were brought together through special forces!”
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Special Forces: World’s Toughest Testseason 2 premieres Sept. 25 at 9 p.m. ET on Fox.
source: people.com
