Ellen DeGeneres and Stephen ‘tWitch’ Boss worked together on ‘The Ellen DeGeneres Show’ for 8 years — read her tribute
Remembering her friend. Ellen DeGeneres paid tribute to her former DJ, Stephen “tWitch” Boss, after the dancer died by reported suicide on Tuesday, December 13, at age 40.
“I’m heartbroken. tWitch was pure love and light,” DeGeneres, 64, wrote via Instagram on Wednesday, December 14, alongside a photo of her hugging her fellow television personality. “He was my family, and I loved him with all my heart. I will miss him. Please send your love and support to Allison and his beautiful children — Weslie, Maddox and Zaia.”
Boss joined The Ellen DeGeneres Show as the talk show host’s in-house DJ in 2014 and became a co-executive producer of the program in August 2020. After the daytime TV series’ final episode in May, DeGeneres shared a clip via Twitter that detailed how she and the choreographer became acquainted.
“I used to be a huge fan of So You Think You Can Dance, and I wanted to do a dance. So, the producers of So You Think You Can Dance set me up with tWitch. tWitch came over to my house and he helped me try to copy it,” the comedian explained in the video.
