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Stephen "tWitch" Boss, Former Ellen Show DJ, Dead astatine 40
Hollywood has mislaid a beloved star.
Dancer Stephen "tWitch" Boss, who appeared alongside Ellen DeGeneres as a DJ and impermanent big connected her long-running speech show, has died astatine the property of 40, his woman Allison Holker shared on Dec. 14. E! News tin corroborate he died by suicide.
"It is with the heaviest of hearts that I person to stock my hubby Stephen has near us," Holker said successful a connection to E! News. "Stephen lit up each country helium stepped into. He valued family, friends and assemblage supra each other and starring with emotion and airy was everything to him. He was the backbone of our family, the champion hubby and father, and an inspiration to his fans."
"To accidental helium near a bequest would beryllium an understatement, and his affirmative interaction volition proceed to beryllium felt," the So You Think You Can Dance star continued. "I americium definite determination won't beryllium a time that goes by that we won't grant his memory. We inquire for privateness during this hard clip for myself and particularly for our 3 children."
Holker concluded her connection by telling Boss, "I volition ever prevention the past creation for you."
Over the years, Boss and Holker shared glimpses into their emotion communicative and household beingness through their societal media posts. Just days earlier his passing, the mates posted a video of them dancing unneurotic to Alicia Keys' Christmas album.
"HOLIDAY SUNDAY FUNDAY DANCE!!!" Holker captioned the Dec. 11 Instagram video. "With my person @sir_twitch_alot #thebosshouse #holidayfun #dance #bossstudios."
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A time prior, the pair—who tied the knot successful Dec. 2013 and are parents to kids Weslie, 14, Maddox, 6, and Zaia, 3—celebrated their ninth anniversary, with Boss sharing photos from their ceremonial on Instagram. "Happy day my love," helium wrote. "@allisonholker #9years."
Holker besides marked the juncture connected her ain societal media page.
"It's our 9th anniversary!! I couldn't beryllium much grateful to observe this cleanable magical day!!!" she captioned her Dec. 10 Instagram post. "Saying YES to @sir_twitch_alot has been 1 of the champion decisions I person ever made successful my life!! I consciousness truthful blessed and loved!!"
"I emotion you babe and I volition ne'er instrumentality you oregon OUR emotion for granted!" she concluded her post. "I LOVE YOU #happyanniversary #bosswedding2013."
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While Holker and Boss wed successful 2010, their emotion communicative began 3 years anterior portion appearing arsenic all-stars on season 7 of So You Think You Can Dance.
Holker antecedently competed successful the 2nd play of the Fox bid successful 2006, finishing successful the apical eight, and Boss followed 2 years later, dancing successful play 4 and scoring the runner-up spot. So, erstwhile the brace aboriginal returned arsenic all-stars, sparks began to fly.
"When the Season 7 wrapper enactment came, I knew it was the past nighttime I would spot him," Holker told Dance Spirit successful a associated 2012 interview. "I was like, 'Geez, I conjecture I person to beryllium stronger astir my moves.' I hadn't planned connected going due to the fact that I'm a ma and don't truly spell retired and party. But erstwhile helium texted to spot if I was going, I was acceptable and successful the car! I showed up and radical were trying to accidental hi, but I was connected a ngo to find this guy. I saw him astatine the different extremity of the room, and helium pointed and did this small 'come here' motion. We went upstairs and danced for 3 hours straight."
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From that moment, their narration blossomed. As Boss explained to the outlet, "We danced the full night, and we've been unneurotic ever since."
The mates went connected to expand their household together, welcoming lad Maddox successful 2016 and girl Zaia successful 2019. (Boss adopted Holker's girl Weslie, who she has from a erstwhile relationship).
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Back successful October, Holker and Boss spoke to E! News astir their kids. "It's interesting, we person 3 kids present and each 3 of them are wholly antithetic personalities, but 1 happening is they tin each dance," Holker told E!. "They mightiness bash it their ain way, but they tin each dance."
While Boss added, "Yeah, they each boogie. Now, whether they're going to go nonrecreational dancers? We'll see. But are they shy astir boogying? Oh no, they're not. At all."
After The Ellen DeGeneres Show wrapped successful May 2022, helium was relishing successful beingness astatine location with his family.
"Tt's truly fantastic," he told E! successful October. "Having the afternoons backmost has been truly great! Listen, I miss the full fam implicit there, I miss everybody. But it's the adjacent section of beingness and it's been truly large conscionable having that clip backmost and that's what it's about, time. It's our astir precious commodity truthful portion I person it, I'm soaking it each up."
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Reflecting connected his clip connected the show, helium shared the top lessons helium walked distant with. "No enactment of kindness is excessively small," Boss told E!. "And besides you don't person to beryllium of a peculiar presumption oregon thing to really perpetrate a benignant enactment and person that do its ripple effect. I deliberation sometimes a batch of radical enactment a batch of precedence connected helping others erstwhile it's conscionable like, 'You tin commencement close now.' Literally, with thing you tin inactive commencement to assistance and find a mode to assistance somebody. That's thing I'll ever instrumentality with me. Always."
If you oregon idiosyncratic you cognize needs help, telephone 988 to scope the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline. You tin besides telephone the network, antecedently known arsenic the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, astatine 800-273-8255, substance HOME to 741741 oregon sojourn SpeakingOfSuicide.com/resources for further resources.
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