diff --git a/torch/testing/_internal/distributed/distributed_test.py b/torch/testing/_internal/distributed/distributed_test.py
index ada44f9283ff..fcccd481d290 100644
--- a/torch/testing/_internal/distributed/distributed_test.py
+++ b/torch/testing/_internal/distributed/distributed_test.py
@@ -3330,8 +3330,8 @@ def test_DistributedDataParallel_non_default_stream(self):
                     )
 
         @unittest.skipIf(
-            BACKEND != "nccl" and BACKEND != "gloo",
-            "MPI backend does not support DDP communication hook on CUDA devices",
+            BACKEND != "nccl",
+            "Only NCCL backend supports DDP communication hook",
         )
         @skip_if_lt_x_gpu(int(os.environ["WORLD_SIZE"]))
         @skip_if_rocm
@@ -3441,8 +3441,8 @@ def _test_ddp_hook_parity(self, state, hook):
                 )
 
         @unittest.skipIf(
-            BACKEND != "nccl" and BACKEND != "gloo",
-            "MPI backend does not support DDP communication hook on CUDA devices",
+            BACKEND != "nccl",
+            "Only NCCL backend supports DDP communication hook",
         )
         @skip_if_lt_x_gpu(int(os.environ["WORLD_SIZE"]))
         @skip_if_rocm
@@ -3450,8 +3450,8 @@ def test_ddp_hook_parity_allreduce(self):
             self._test_ddp_hook_parity(state=None, hook=default.allreduce_hook)
 
         @unittest.skipIf(
-            BACKEND != "nccl" and BACKEND != "gloo",
-            "MPI backend does not support DDP communication hook on CUDA devices",
+            BACKEND != "nccl",
+            "Only NCCL backend supports DDP communication hook",
         )
         @skip_if_lt_x_gpu(int(os.environ["WORLD_SIZE"]))
         @skip_if_rocm
@@ -3463,8 +3463,8 @@ def test_ddp_hook_parity_allreduce_process_group(self):
             self._test_ddp_hook_parity(state=process_group, hook=default.allreduce_hook)
 
         @unittest.skipIf(
-            BACKEND != "nccl" and BACKEND != "gloo",
-            "MPI backend does not support DDP communication hook on CUDA devices",
+            BACKEND != "nccl",
+            "Only NCCL backend supports DDP communication hook",
         )
         @skip_if_lt_x_gpu(int(os.environ["WORLD_SIZE"]))
         @skip_if_rocm