Cat Deeley Says Stephen ‘tWitch’ Boss Will ‘Forever Be Part of Our Family’ at So You Think You Can Dance (Exclusive)

Cat Deeley reflects on her memories of Stephen “tWitch” Boss a year after his death.

The So you think you can dance host, 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 everything.”

Deeley shares that tWitch, who was a finalist on Season 4 of the Fox dance competition, “will forever be a part of our family” after taking his own life at the age of 40 on December 13, 2022.

“It’s a thing we have with everyone who comes on the show, and no one has ever forgotten it,” she adds.

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Leah Remini, Stephen ‘tWitch’ Boss, JoJo Siwa and Cat Deeley on ‘So You Think You Can Dance’ 2022

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The TV personality also recalls sharing a laugh with tWitch on set SYTYCDwhere he was an All-Star for three seasons and a referee in 2022.

“He would always come up to me and give me a big hug. And he would sweat, oh my god, like nobody’s business… Buckets. Buckets and buckets,” she shares. “And I would hug him and I would literally be wet. And I thought: ‘What am I going to do now?’ And he would laugh and laugh and laugh, and we would laugh about it together.”

In another memorable moment from the set, Deeley remembers trying out some of Stephen’s moves.

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Stephen ‘tWitch’ Boss, Cat Deeley, JoJo Siwa and Matthew Morrison on ‘So You Think You Can Dance’.

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“I am an English woman with an English accent, and when I try to come to terms with children and the street [dance], it doesn’t really work,” she explains. “So I took his grill and put it in mine, I said, ‘Hand over your grill. I can be a street person like anybody else.’”

She continues, “He was just kind and talented and I miss him so much.”

Deeley notes that Boss’s wife, Allison Holker Boss, will be joining So you think you can dance as a season 18 judge, she is “very raw and very emotionally available” when talking about her late husband.

“I think the more we can have these conversations, the less people will feel alone,” she adds.

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Season 18 of So you think you can dance premieres Monday, March 4 on Fox.

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