Twitch Dies: Ellen DeGeneres’ New Video Tribute to Stephen Boss [WATCH]

Ellen DeGeneres is paying tribute to her longtime DJ Stephen “tWitch” Boss, who died by suicide on Dec. 13.

In a candid video posted to Twitter, DeGeneres — who beforehand launched a written assertion on social media — displays on the “ache” of shedding her colleague, then suggests one of the best ways to honor his reminiscence.

“I simply wished to say that the previous 11 days have been actually powerful for everybody. Everyone seems to be in ache and attempting to make sense of it. We’ll by no means make sense of it,” she says. “The vacations are laborious, I believe, anyway, however to honor Twitch, one of the best factor we will do is to giggle and hug one another, and play video games, and dance and sing. That’s the best way we honor him. We do the issues that he cherished to do…. And I do know it appears laborious. It appears unimaginable. However that’s how we honor him. We hug one another and inform one another we love one another, and let folks know that we’re there for them. Examine in on folks.

“I do know it’s not a contented vacation, however he was pure mild,” she continues. “For those who knew him, you knew that. For those who didn’t know him, you noticed it. Let’s honor him and take into consideration him and ship love to at least one one other.”

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— Ellen DeGeneres (@TheEllenShow) December 23, 2022

Boss first rose to fame as a Season 4 contestant on So You Suppose You Can Dance. In response to TMZ‘s Dec. 14 report, he was present in a Los Angeles lodge room with an obvious self-inflicted gunshot wound. Allison Holker, Boss’ spouse and fellow SYTYCD alum, confirmed his passing in an announcement that remembered Boss as “the spine of our household, one of the best husband and father, and an inspiration to his followers.”

He boarded The Ellen DeGeneres Present as visitor DJ in 2014, and remained with the daytime sequence till its conclusion in Could of this yr. He was upped to co-executive producer on the present in 2020 and regularly guest-hosted in DeGeneres’ absence.

For those who’re fascinated about suicide, are nervous a few pal or cherished one, or would really like emotional assist, dial “988” for the Nationwide Suicide & Disaster Lifeline.