Stephen "tWitch" Boss

**Stephen Laurel "tWitch" Boss** (September 29, 1982December 13, 2022) was an American freestyle hip hop dancer, choreographer, actor, television producer, and television personality.

In 2008, Boss finished in second place on the American version of _So You Think You Can Dance_. From 2014 to May 2022, he was featured on _The Ellen DeGeneres Show_ as a co-host. He was also a co-executive producer of the program. He was featured as DeGeneres' sidekick in _Ellen's Game of Games_. Between 2018 and 2020, Boss and his wife Allison Holker hosted _Disney's Fairy Tale Weddings_ on Freeform and Disney+.

## Death

On December 13, 2022, Allison Holker told Los Angeles officers that Boss left their home without taking the car. This was unusual behavior. Boss died by shooting at the Oak Tree Inn in Encino, Los Angeles without leaving the hotel. His death was ruled a suicide. Boss was 40 years old.

### Movies

|Year|Title|Role|class="unsortable"|Notes|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|2007|_Blades of Glory_|Flamboyant Dancer|Uncredited||
|_Hairspray_|Maybelle's Store Dancer|Role in the dance number at the platter party and in "You Can't Stop the Beat"|||
|2010|_Stomp the Yard: Homecoming_|Taz|||
|_Step Up 3D_|Jason Hardlerson||||
|2012|_Step Up Revolution_||||
|2014|_Step Up: All In_||||
|2015|_Magic Mike XXL_|Malik|||
|2022|_The Hip Hop Nutcracker|Dad|Disney+ release; final role||

### Television

|Year|Title|Role|class="unsortable"|Notes|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|2008|_So You Think You Can Dance_|Runner-up|||
|2010|_Bones_|Russell Leonard|||
|2011|_So You Think You Can Dance_|All Star|||
|_Touch_|The Beastmaster||||
|2012|_So You Think You Can Dance_|All Star|||
|_Drop Dead Diva_|Billy Donaldson|TV series, Season 6 episode 2: "Soulmates"|||
|2013|_So You Think You Can Dance_|All Star|||
|_Dancing with the Stars_|||||
|2014–2022|_The Ellen DeGeneres Show_|Show DJ/Host|||
|rowspan=2|2015|_Bound & Babysitting_|Ethan|TV movie|
|_So You Think You Can Dance_|Team Captain-Team Street||||
|2017–2021|_Ellen's Game of Games_|Announcer|||
|2017–2020|_Disney's Fairy Tale Weddings_||||
|2018|_Modern Family_||Episode: "Wine Weekend"||
|_Young & Hungry_|Himself||||
|2018|_So You Think You Can Dance_|Judge|||
|2021|_Clash of the Cover Bands_|Host|||
|2022|_The Real Dirty Dancing_||||
|_So You Think You Can Dance_|Judge||||

### Web series

|Year|Title|Role|class="unsortable"|Notes|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|2010|_The Legion of Extraordinary Dancers_|LXD Trainer|Season 2, Episode 1||
|Teacher, Student|Season 2, Episode 2||||
|2011|_The Legion of Extraordinary Dancers: The Secrets of the Ra_|Dr. E|||
|2016|_Love_|Doobie|||

## Awards

- Runner Up, _Star Search_, 2003
- 3rd Place, MTV's _The Wade Robson Project_, 2003
- Runner Up, Season 4 of _So You Think You Can Dance'', 2008

## Net worth

Boss had an estimated net worth of around $5 million at the time of his death. During his first two seasons on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show," twitch's salary was $500,000 per season, then it was raised to $1 million per season . In 2015, Boss paid $1.15 million for a 2,500+ square foot home in the Sherman Oaks area of Los Angeles. He put the four-bedroom home on the market for $1.299 million in April 2019.

## Other websites

- Interview with tWitch on Fox 11

## Infobox (person)

- **name**: Stephen "tWitch" Boss
- **image**: Stephen tWitch Boss at Dizzy Feet Gala 2014.jpg
- **caption**: Boss in 2014
- **birth name**: Stephen Laurel Boss
- **birth place**: Montgomery, Alabama, U.S.
- **death place**: Los Angeles, California, U.S.
- **death cause**: Suicide by gunshot
- **years active**: 2002–2022
- **alma mater**: Southern Union State Community College
Chapman University
- **television**: _So You Think You Can Dance (American TV series), So You Think You Can Dance_
_Step Up (movie series), Step Up movies_
_The Ellen DeGeneres Show_
- **children**: 3