Ellen DeGeneres, Stephen “tWitch” Boss.Photo: Mike Rozman/NBCU
Ellen DeGeneres' charity is honoring the life ofStephen “Twitch” Boss.
“tWitch brought light to so many and was a wonderful friend to @ellendegeneres,” the caption continued. “In his honor we planted this tree so he will be forever remembered on the campus.”
Boss became a permanent fixture on DeGeneres' daytime talk show after landing a gig as a guest DJ in 2014. He was then elevated to co-executive producer in 2020.
Shortly after Boss' death, DeGeneres candidly spoke about her friend in ateary Instagram video.
Whilespeaking about her grieving process, she explained: “Everyone is in pain and trying to make sense of it, and we’ll never make sense of it. The holidays are hard, I think, anyway, but to honor tWitch I think the best thing that we can do is to laugh, hug each other, play games and dance and sing. That’s the way we honor him, is we do the things that he loved to do, which is dancing.”
“He loved music, he loved games, so we do that,” DeGeneres continued in the video. “And I know it seems hard, it seems impossible, but that’s how we honor him.”
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WhenTheEllen DeGeneresShowwas coming to an end, she gifted Boss a photo of the pair with their arms wrapped around each other, and shared a clip of the moment in aseparate Instagram postin December.
“Whenever he’s not here it’s just different … he’s my pal, he’s my sidekick, because we have this connection,” she said in the video. “Just looking over and he makes me laugh. He really, really makes me laugh.”
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Boss then emotionally told the host at the end of the clip: “I love you and also I love the family that we’ve gained here. And something I’ll always remember is that you gave me a place to just be myself.”
source: people.com
