Stephen ‘tWitch’ Boss dead at 40: Ellen pays tribute to Fairytale Weddings host

Celebrity DJ and dancer found dead in Los Angeles hotel room

Stephen Boss
Boss first found fame as a contestant on MTV’s The Wade Robson Project
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Ellen DeGeneres has led the tributes to dancer and DJ Stephen ‘tWitch’ Boss following his death at the age of 40.

Boss’s death was confirmed by his wife Allison Holker. She told People magazine that “he was the backbone of our family, the best husband and father, and an inspiration to his fans”.

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  Chas Newkey-Burden has been part of The Week Digital team for more than a decade and a journalist for 25 years, starting out on the irreverent football weekly 90 Minutes, before moving to lifestyle magazines Loaded and Attitude. He was a columnist for The Big Issue and landed a world exclusive with David Beckham that became the weekly magazine’s bestselling issue. He now writes regularly for The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Independent, Metro, FourFourTwo and the i new site. He is also the author of a number of non-fiction books.