Allison Holker is returning to the present the place she first met her late husband, Stephen “tWitch” Boss.
Fox introduced on Wednesday, December 6, that Holker, 35, and former Dancing With the Stars professional Maksim Chmerkovskiy will likely be becoming a member of season 18 of So You Suppose You Can Dance, which is ready to return in March 2024. The twosome will seem as judges alongside veteran choose Nigel Lythgoe and visitor choose Consolation Fedoke. Cat Deeley will return as host.
“So honored and grateful to announce I’ll be judging for SYTYCD @danceonfox !!” Holker wrote through Instagram alongside a video of herself celebrating her new gig. “What an absolute dream come true!!! A full-circle moment that has changed my life in quite literally every way. IM HOME!! And sitting next to people I admire and love is just perfection!!”
Holker’s announcement comes practically one 12 months after the loss of life of late husband Boss simply days after the couple’s ninth wedding ceremony anniversary. Us Weekly confirmed in December 2022 that Boss was discovered useless at a Los Angeles lodge. The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner later confirmed that Boss died by suicide. He was 40 years outdated.
“It is with the heaviest of hearts that I have to share my husband Stephen has left us,” Holker advised Individuals in an announcement on the time. “Stephen lit up every room he stepped into. He valued family, friends and community above all else and leading with love and light was everything to him. He was the backbone of our family, the best husband and father, and an inspiration to his fans.”
Holker and Boss met on season 2 of SYTYCD in 2006, when she was performing as a contestant and he was working as a choreographer. The pair reconnected when she returned for season 7 of the dance competitors sequence as an All-Star.
Though she didn’t keep in mind assembly him in 2006, Holker advised Dance Spirit in 2012 that she discovered Boss to be the “cutest guy ever” after they reconnected 4 years later. After an evening out collectively, the pair turned inseparable.
“I saw him at the other end of the room, and he pointed and did this little ‘come here’ motion,” Holker recalled to the outlet. “We went upstairs and danced for three hours straight.” Boss, for his half, added, “We danced the entire night, and we’ve been together ever since.”
The couple tied the knot in December 2013 after three years of relationship in a ceremony held at Lythgoe’s winery in California. They went on to welcome son Maddox in 2016 and daughter Zaia in 2019. Boss additionally adopted Holker’s daughter from a earlier relationship, Weslie, in 2008.
Since Boss’ loss of life, Holker has been candid about grieving whereas dwelling within the public eye. “I still feel like the rest of the world where I’m still shocked,” she shared on the In the present day present in Might. “No one’s ready for that moment and there’s no one that saw this coming. No one — and that breaks my heart too.”
After practically a 12 months of mourning, Holker put her dancing sneakers again on for the primary time in September, taking to social media to share the particular second. “Truly felt so good to dance again,” she wrote through Instagram alongside a video of her performing. “I was overwhelmed with so many emotions. I was both scared and excited. But dance has always been there for me … even now and I am so grateful for that.”