Ellen DeGeneres shares emotional video message honoring Stephen

In an emotional video message Friday, comic Ellen DeGeneres paid tribute to former “Ellen” present DJ Stephen “tWitch” Boss, who died last week on the age of 40. 

Boss was a resident DJ on the “Ellen DeGeneres Present,” which he joined in 2014. In 2020, he was named co-executive producer of the show, and likewise stuffed in as host on a number of events.     

DeGeneres told her followers Friday to “snort” and “hug one another” as a strategy to honor and bear in mind him. 

“To honor tWitch, I believe one of the best factor that we will do is to snort and hug one another, play video games and dance and sing,” DeGeneres mentioned within the video. “That is the best way we honor him. We do the issues that he cherished to do, which is dancing. He cherished music, he cherished video games.”

This isn’t the primary time DeGeneres has spoken about Boss’ demise, however it was her first such public video. Final week, the previous “Ellen” host shared a picture to Instagram of her hugging Boss, during which she wrote, “I am heartbroken.”

Boss, who typically posted dancing movies with his wife on TikTok and Instagram, died in Los Angeles on Dec. 13. His demise was dominated a suicide by police. He and his spouse, Allison Holker, had three kids. 

DeGeneres completed the emotional message by encouraging folks to “examine in on folks” and “let folks know we’re there for them.” 

“I do know it isn’t a contented vacation, however he was pure gentle as all people within the feedback mentioned,” Ellen continued. “In the event you knew him, you knew that, in the event you did not know him, you noticed it. Let’s honor him and take into consideration him, and ship love to 1 one other.”

Tre’Vaughn Howard

Tre’Vaughn Howard is a producer and journalist for CBS Information, specializing in worldwide and tradition tales.