Allison Holker and Stephen “tWitch” Boss Rodin Eckenroth/WireImage
Allison Holker will at all times keep in mind her late husband, Stephen “tWitch” Boss, and his enduring legacy within the dance group.
“Stephen ‘tWitch’ Boss was and can without end be an icon [and] a legend as a result of he was actually the perfect at what he did,” Holker, 36, tearfully mentioned in a primary glimpse of the So You Suppose You Can Dance season 18 auditions, which was launched through TikTok on Friday, March 1. “But in addition as a result of he introduced out the perfect in everybody round him.”
She continued, “To at the present time, for me, my kids and everybody right here, he’s nonetheless doing that. And the way we honor him is by giving that life again as a result of that’s what he would need too.
Holker and Boss met throughout SYTYCD season 7 after they had been each tapped as “All-Star” mentors. They wed in 2013, 9 years earlier than Boss’ dying. Us Weekly confirmed in December 2022 that Boss died by suicide on the age of 40. He’s survived by Holker and their three children: Weslie, 15, Maddox, 7, and Zaia, 3. (Weslie is Holker’s daughter from a earlier relationship, whom Boss had adopted.)
As Holker continued to navigate her grief, she signed on to return to her So You Suppose She Can Dance roots and sit on the choose’s panel for season 18. The brand new episodes premiere Monday, March 4, and can see Holker seek for America’s High Dancer alongside Maksim Chmerkovskiy and JoJo Siwa. (Fellow former All-Star Consolation Fedoke will sit on the panel throughout the audition spherical.)
Maksim Chmerkovskiy, Consolation Fedoke, and Allison Holker Tom Griscom/FOX
“Allison has an enormous background particularly referring to So You Suppose She Can Dance. She was an 18-year-old dancer herself on that specific present. That present had began her profession. She had met her husband on [it and] that they had made a life for themselves,” Chmerkovskiy, 44, completely informed Us final month. “They’ve turn into two names on the earth that we dwell in. So for her to be part of that is totally justified and in my view, she brings a number of elementary components of So You Suppose She Can Dance. She carries it throughout to this new format.”
When So You Suppose You Can Dance debuted on FOX in 2005, a panel of dance consultants had been tapped to find the perfect up-and-coming performers. Nigel Lythgoe, who cocreated the competitors collection alongside Simon Fuller, served as one of many longtime judges because the season 1 premiere. Nevertheless, after cueing the audition music and marveling […]
Chmerkovskiy, a former Dancing With the Stars champion, additionally seen how Holker honored Boss’ legacy throughout filming.
“I missed tWitch. I want that I acquired to do extra stuff with him or any stuff actually for that matter,” Chmerkovskiy added. “We by no means actually crossed paths professionally, however Allison’s filling this place nice.”
So You Suppose You Can Dance premieres on Fox Monday, March 4, at 9 p.m. ET.
