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JoJo Siwa Reveals Demi Lovato and Jenna Dewan Helped Her Gay Awakening: Immediately Knew Men Are Not My Thing

Cool for the summer! JoJo Siwa opened up about her journey toward discovering her sexuality — and which fellow celebrities helped her get there.

In a TikTok video posted on Tuesday, October 4, Siwa, 19, participated in the “One Thing About Me” social media trend by sharing her “gay awakening story, in which she listened to Demi Lovato’s 2015 hit “Cool for the Summer” on repeat.

“I really, really liked it and listened to it all the time,” the former Nickelodeon star said on the beat. “I did not know what it meant back then but now that I’m much older and I understand, I know what it means.”

The second big moment came three years later when she watched Jenna Dewan perform a Magic Mike routine on Lip Sync Battle. “I pretty much watched it every day. Little me, she didn’t know she was gay,” the Dance Moms alum said. “Until…”

Siwa then recalled a personal experience in which she went on a first date with a man that helped her reach the conclusion that she was gay.

“A couple years later, a man was my first date and he wanted to have sex with me and I did not want to — never wanted to, grossed out by the thought of it,” she explained, before concluding the video, “Immediately knew men are not my thing. Women are my gig. Gotta go.”

This isn’t the first time Siwa has mentioned Lovato, 30, and Dewan, 41, in relation to her sexuality.

The High School Musical: The Musical: The Series actress initially revealed she was a member of the LGBTQ+ community in January 2021. At the time, Siwa uploaded a photo in which she was wearing a black t-shirt that read, “Best. Gay. Cousin. Ever.”

A few months later, the Nebraska native went on the Camp Rock star’s 4D With Demi Lovato show and opened up further about her journey.

“I’ve been figuring out my gay awakenings recently. I think I realized that my very first gay awakening was Jenna Dewan’s performance on Lip Sync Battle,” Siwa shared with Lovato. At the time “I think that was one of them. But do you remember your dancer, her name is JoJo Gomez, and you did ‘Cool for the Summer’ together? I remember seeing that and just being a little too interested.”

The “Skyscraper” songstress, for their part, responded, “I didn’t come out until like 2017. But ‘Cool for the Summer’ was like, 2014, 2015, so that, to me, it was my way of saying I’m not ready to come out.”

Weeks after coming out, Siwa confirmed she was in a relationship with Kylie Prew. The pair dated on and off for almost two years before calling it quits in August. Last month, the So You Think You Can Dance? judge confirmed her budding romance with Avery Cyrus via a TikTok video. The couple made their red carpet debut a few days later at the Los Angeles premiere of Alanis Morrisette’s musical Jagged Little Pill.

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Chinese company aims to sell 3 US resorts for $1.3 billion

A Chinese company is looking to sell three major U.S. resort hotels at a combined price tag of $1.3 billion, seeking to cash out these holdings during a powerful surge in leisure travel and resort business.

Dajia Insurance Group Co. is putting up for sale the Montage in Laguna Beach, California, the Four Seasons resort in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and the Four Seasons in Scottsdale, Arizona, according to people familiar with the matter. BofA Securities Inc. and real estate banking and brokerage firm Eastdil Secured LLC are marketing the hotels on behalf of the seller, these people said.

The three properties are part of Dajia’s Strategic Hotels & Resorts portfolio, a group of 15 luxury U.S. resorts and hotels that also includes urban properties such as the JW Essex House hotel overlooking Manhattan’s Central Park and the InterContinental Hotels in Chicago and Miami.

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The Chinese company, which took control over most of the operations of China’s Anbang Insurance Group Co., had agreed in 2019 to sell the entire Strategic portfolio to South Korea’s Mirae Asset Financial Group for $5.8 billion. However, that deal unraveled when the pandemic caused travel to dry up and hotel revenue to plunge.

Now, Dajia is back in the market with the three hotels, which represent some premier resorts in their cities at a time when leisure travel has been booming.

Americans’ pent-up demand for travel erupted last year and has continued this year. Many travelers are showing a preference for beaches, mountains and other resort destinations over trips to big cities. Urban hotels have also suffered from the sharp drop in business travel, which remains below prepandemic levels.

By contrast, the resort business may never have been more lucrative. Average daily room rates and revenue per available rooms, a popular industry metric, both reached new highs for U.S. resorts earlier this year and remain near those levels, according to lodging data firm STR.

Some travel analysts expect the mania for resorts to cool somewhat next year, especially if the country falls into a recession and as that pent-up travel demand from the COVID-19 lockdown period eases.

Yet even with any near-term downturn, a burgeoning interest in resorts and leisure trips looks here to stay, said Eric Resnick, chief executive officer of KSL Capital Partners, a Denver-based investment firm that owns or operates more than 400 resorts, hotels, ski areas and other leisure businesses worldwide.

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“The mass affluent consumer has been fortunate to have higher savings and job security,” he said. “That demographic drives travel and leisure broadly. We don’t see that going away.”

Dajia’s plan to sell the three hotels marks the latest effort by a Chinese company to exit or sell commercial real estate holdings in the U.S. While Chinese companies were aggressive buyers of hotels, office towers and other trophy properties in U.S. cities, their investment started falling four years ago, around the time that Chinese regulators made it harder for many companies to move money out of the country.

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Dajia is looking to raise $300 million each from sales of the two Four Seasons properties, and $700 million from the Montage Laguna Beach, according to people familiar with the sales process. The Southern California resort features more than 250 guest rooms and a 20,000 square-foot spa on a 30-acre beachfront property, according to its website.

Dajia also owns the Waldorf Astoria hotel on Manhattan’s Park Avenue, taking over the property after Anbang paid $1.95 billion for it in 2015, the biggest price tag ever for a stand-alone U.S. hotel.

The company is now struggling to complete its plan for combining hundreds of guest rooms into luxury residences, a process that is shaping up as one of the largest, most intricate and priciest condo conversion and hotel rebuild projects undertaken. The process has fallen behind schedule and gone well over budget, say people familiar with the matter.

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Scary mortgage rates sticker shock forcing homebuyers to walk away from contracts broker says

With the 30-year fixed mortgage rate doubling from one year ago and the housing market facing “less affordability,” one real estate broker is warning that potential buyers are more likely to back out of pending deals without consequence.

“These are scary numbers a little bit. You would never have expected this before because typically you wouldn’t have the ability to back out of a contract,” The Corcoran Group president and CEO Pamela Liebman told “Mornings with Maria” Wednesday. “Nobody would give you a mortgage contingency when the market was on fire and just going up, up, up.”

“But now that sellers are a little more desperate to get these deals done, they are offering these contract contingencies,” the broker continued.

As mortgage rates continue to hit multi-year highs each week and market demand starts to cool, a report from Redfin found states within the Sun Belt have seen the highest rates of contract cancellations. According to Liebman, a lot of homebuyers back out after feeling the mortgage sticker shock.

MORTGAGE RATES DOUBLE VS. YEAR AGO, REFINANCINGS HIT 22-YEAR LOW: SURVEY

Mortgage rates increased more than a percentage point over the past six weeks. At the end of the Sept. 23 week, the 30-year fixed rate was 6.52%, which is the highest it has been since mid-2008.

“You may have applied for a mortgage two weeks ago, and now the cost is significantly more, and it just makes it unaffordable and people will walk away,” Liebman explained.

Expensive mortgages and home prices have taken “a lot of people” out of the home-buying market, the broker further detailed.

“I think also that a lot of the fun places to buy, whether it’s in Vegas or Orlando or Montana, some of that is not so fun anymore because it’s gotten a lot more expensive,” Liebman said. “And disposable income is not what it was because of the inflation all over the place.”

Now that home sellers have more listings to compete with, the real estate expert noted, people will try to gain buyers’ attention and offers by dropping the asking price.

“This is a market nationally that really saw such incredible price increases during the pandemic, that it’s a double whammy of expensive prices and expensive mortgages,” Liebman said. “So something’s got to give.”

Though Liebman expressed she doesn’t believe the U.S. is experiencing a housing recession, she advised those active in the market should “plan for surprises.”

“We want more people to be able to buy new homes, and we’ve got a whole new generation now that’s getting ready to enter the market. So I think housing will be fine, and as Chairman Powell said, maybe a little more balanced,” The Corcoran Group CEO said. “You just really have to talk to somebody who can financially advise you whether an uptick in the rate is going to crush you financially.”