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The corporate ache implicit Stephen “tWitch” Boss’s abrupt passing remains strong, but the dancer’s erstwhile colleague, Ellen DeGeneres, is encouraging fans to crook to laughter and joy.

On Friday, the comedian and big honored the precocious emcee of her erstwhile speech show, “The Ellen DeGeneres Show.” Boss died by termination astatine property 40 connected Dec. 13.

“The past 11 days person been truly pugnacious for everyone,” she remarked astatine the apical of the video selfie, which was dotted passim with tears from the comedian. “Everyone is successful symptom and trying to marque consciousness of it. We’ll ne'er marque consciousness of it. And the holidays are hard, I think, anyway. But to grant Twitch, I deliberation the champion happening that we tin bash is to laughter and hug each different and play games and creation and sing.”

DeGeneres went connected to impulse fans to “do the things that helium loved to do, which is dancing. He loved music.”

“I cognize it seems hard— It seems impossible. But that’s however we grant him and hug each different and archer each different we emotion each different and fto radical cognize we’re determination for them and cheque successful connected people,” she added. “So blessed holidays, everybody. And I cognize it’s not a blessed holiday, but helium was axenic light. As everybody successful the comments said, if you knew him, you knew that. If you didn’t cognize him, you saw it. Let’s grant him. And deliberation astir him to 1 another.”

The comedian captioned the video with a azygous bosom emoji.

“You helped to alteration his beingness and dispersed the connection of joyousness done dance,” comedian Loni Love replied successful the post’s comments section. “He loved you and the show... He loved america all, and that is what is helping maine .. to cognize that He loved us. I’ll miss him, but we volition support dancing for his household and his memory.”

“Checking successful connected you, Ellen,” different idiosyncratic wrote. “Sending emotion and thanking you for each the years of laughter and fun.”

In effect to the video, 1 commenter noted, “There are immoderate radical you consciousness a transportation to whether you personally cognize them oregon not…he was 1 of those people. “

In the aftermath of Boss’ death, the comedian and erstwhile tv big has peppered her Instagram and Twitter pages with tributes to the dancer who often appeared connected her amusement arsenic a impermanent host.

In summation to her selfie video station connected Friday, she shared a video of Boss pulling disconnected aggregate spontaneous creation moves and captioned the post, penning “He was magic.”

On Thursday, she shared a video of Boss during a conception successful which helium hosted and interviewed a viral kid dancer by the sanction of ZaZa.

“I’m heartbroken,” DeGeneres captioned an Instagram station shared connected Dec. 14, soon aft his decease was confirmed by his woman Allison Holker. “tWitch was axenic emotion and light. He was my family, and I loved him with each my heart. I volition miss him. Please nonstop your emotion and enactment to Allison and his beauteous children — Weslie, Maddox, and Zaia.”