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Stephen "tWitch" Boss, Former Ellen Show DJ, Dead astatine 40
In a satellite wherever you tin beryllium anything, Stephen "tWitch" Boss wanted to beryllium kind.
On Dec. 14, quality broke that the erstwhile Ellen DeGeneres Show DJ had died astatine the property of 40. And arsenic tributes proceed pouring in from friends and fans astir the world, many—including the speech amusement host—couldn't assistance but retrieve his kindness connected and disconnected stage.
In an interrogation with E! News backmost successful October, the So You Think You Can Dance prima shared a acquisition connected supporting those astir you.
"That nary enactment of kindness is excessively small," helium shared astatine the Industry Dance Awards connected Oct. 12. "You don't person to beryllium of a peculiar presumption oregon thing to really perpetrate a benignant enactment and person that bash its ripple effect. I deliberation sometimes a batch of radical enactment a batch of precedence connected helping others erstwhile it's conscionable similar nah, you tin commencement close now."
Boss added that it was important "to assistance and find a mode to assistance somebody. That's thing I'll ever instrumentality with me. Always."
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Before presenting his woman Allison Holker with the New Media Influencer Award, Boss besides shared a glimpse into his life aft The Ellen DeGeneres Show came to an extremity successful May 2022. After being portion of the amusement since 2014, Boss said helium was grateful to person much clip with his children Weslie, 14, Maddox, 6, and Zaia, 3.
"Honestly, it's truly fantastic," helium told E! "Having the afternoons backmost has been truly great. 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."
On Dec. 14, Holker confirmed her hubby of 9 years had passed away. "It is with the heaviest of hearts that I person to stock my hubby Stephen has near us," she 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."
E! News tin corroborate helium died by suicide.
Following the heartbreaking news, DeGeneres besides paid tribute to her longtime co-worker and friend. "I'm heartbroken," she said in a connection to E! News. "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."
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.
