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The late Stephen “tWitch” Boss was a man who wore many hats. Before he was a co-executive producer and DJ for “The Ellen DeGeneres Show,” he was a dancer who rose to fame thanks to Fox’s “So You Think You Can Dance” and earlier this year, became a permanent judge on the show.
But those who paid tribute to him on Wednesday following the news of his shocking death made only passing mention of his professional accomplishments, instead highlighting a man who touched so many lives.
On Instagram, “SYTYCD” judge Jojo Siwa said that Boss was a friend and a mentor “not just to me but to SO many.”
“I’ll never forget our time getting to work together on SYTYCD, he became such a light in my life,” Siwa wrote.
Siwa added that Boss was “someone I’ve looked up to since I was born turned one of my best friends” and “always had the best advice.”
“We had SO many laughs, smiles, and even cries together,” Siwa’s post said.
Another judge from the dance competition show, Matthew Morrison, reflected in his own Instagram post that it was “hard to make sense of this news.”
“Twitch was someone I’ve looked up to for years, and I was a little star struck when I first met him,” Morrison, an alum of Fox’s “Glee,” wrote. “But we connected so deeply in such a short time about so many things, but mostly fatherhood. The love for his family ran so deep and he was so proud of his tribe.”
He added, “Your mentorship, positivity, and talent were vibrating on a different level.”
Mary Murphy, judge and choreographer from the dance competition series, shared in a statement to CNN that her “soul is crying and aches on a cellular level.”
“I was a proud mama bear over Twitch. He was hungry, eager, and willing to do the work that would lift him in spirit and means,” she wrote.
Murphy shared that the first time she met Boss, “there was something about him. I call it twinkle eye because his eyes shined so much. His smile lit up the stage every time he…
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