Cat Deeley and Stephen ‘tWitch’ Boss.Photo:Gilbert Flores/Variety via Getty; Jason Mendez/WireImage
Gilbert Flores/Variety via Getty; Jason Mendez/WireImage
Cat Deeleyis looking back at her memories ofStephen “tWitch” Bossone year after his death.
TheSo You Think You Can Dancehost, 47, tells PEOPLE that “it’s so important that we remember tWitch and exactly who he was and how he was, and how he had a smile for absolutely everybody.”
“It’s a thing that we have with everybody who comes on the show, and no one has forgotten, ever,” she adds.
Leah Remini, Stephen ‘tWitch’ Boss, JoJo Siwa and Cat Deeley on ‘So You Think You Can Dance’ in 2022.FOX via Getty
FOX via Getty
The television personality also recalls sharing a laugh with tWitch on the set ofSYTYCD, where he went on to be an All-Star for three seasons and a judge in 2022.
“He would always come up to me and give me a great big massive hug. And he’d sweat, oh my Lord, like nobody… Buckets. Buckets and buckets,” she shares. “And I’d hug him and I’d literally just be drenched. And I was like, ‘What am I going to do now?’ And he’d laugh and laugh and laugh, and we’d laugh about it together.”
In another memorable moment from the set, Deeley remembers attempting to try some of Stephen’s moves.
Stephen ‘tWitch’ Boss, Cat Deeley,JoJo Siwa and Matthew Morrison on ‘So You Think You Can Dance’.FOX via Getty
“I’m an English girl with an English accent, and when I try and get all down with the kids and street [dance], it doesn’t quite work,” she explains. “So, I took his grill and I put it in my, I said, ‘Hand over your grill. I can be as street as anybody else.’”
She continues: “He was just kind and talented, and I miss him very much.”
Deeley notes that Boss’ wifeAllison Holker Boss, who willjoinSo You Think You Can Danceas a judgefor season 18, is “very raw and very emotionally available” when discussing her late husband.
“I think the more we can keep those conversations happening, the less people feel they are alone,” she adds.
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Season 18 ofSo You Think You Can Dancepremieres Monday, March 4 on Fox.
source: people.com
