Mr. Boss spent nine years on The Ellen DeGeneres Show as a DJ, guest host, and eventually executive producer.
Steven Boss, a charismatic hip-hop dancer and Twitch TV personality who rose to fame on the reality show So You Think You Can Dance before becoming a regular on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, died Tuesday in a motel room in New York Los Angeles. he is 40 years old
The death was ruled a suicide by the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s Office.
Mr. Boss joined So You Think You Can Dance in 2008 aged 25 with a talent for popping — a hip-hop-related dance form that involves isolating body parts to a staccato beat — and judging their skills with facial expressions and deep theatrics. laughter.
He was soon dancing in unknown styles on national television, such as the waltz and tango, and finished the show’s fourth season as runner-up. Later in the series, Mr. Boss performed the hip-hop duet with Ellen DeGeneres—with her as the sweater-wearing therapist and him as the client—that would eventually shape the rest of his career.
Mr. Boss, a cheerful television presence who loves to wear a fedora and dance a lot, spent nearly a decade on The Ellen DeGeneres Show as a DJ, guest host, and eventually executive producer. “I was counting on him to watch and make silly jokes,” said Ms. DeGeneres in an episode this year, the show’s last. “He is my friend, he is my servant.”
Twitch began work on The Ellen Show in 2014 and was later promoted to Co-Executive Producer in 2020.
“My heart is broken. Twitch is pure love and light. She is my family and I love her with all my heart. I will miss you. Please send your love and support to Alison and her beautiful children Wesley, Maddox and Zaya,” Ellen DeGeneres said in a statement. Twitter, along with a photo of the two embracing backstage. The dancer-DJ has also appeared in films such as Step Up: All In and Magic Mike XXL, and appeared on Disney+’s The Hip Hop Nutcracker” previously released. He also placed second on So You Think You Can Dance and was later judged on the Season 17 of the dance competition show.
A native of Alabama, she studied dance performance at South Union Community College and Chapman University.
Her love of dance permeates all aspects of her life as she aspires to emulate the likes of Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire.
“My personal opinion: The greatest of all time has to be Gene Kelly, man. Gene Kelly because he’s a man. I love Fred Astaire but Fred Astaire is so smooth and great. He’s so classy,” Boss said in a 2014 interview with The Associated Press . “But Gene Kelly – he can be like somebody’s dad who just decided to get off the couch and dance around and clean up the kitchen.”
Boss posts dancing videos on TikTok with his wife, who is also a professional dancer, and their children guest on.
Celebrities like Questlove and Kerry Washington posted messages of sympathy on social media.
“I am speechless. May his family find comfort in this dark time. May we all find peace in our daily lives. Every day is a winding road and you may never know who is at the limit,” wrote Questlove on Instagram.
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