Stephen ‘tWitch’ Boss is getting an emotional goodbye from these closest to him this week … with a bigger gathering deliberate for the long run to correctly honor him en masse.
Sources inside tWitch’s interior circle inform TMZ … the late media character is being laid to relaxation Wednesday afternoon in Los Angeles, in what we’re instructed goes to be a small and intimate funeral attended by shut household.
We’re instructed there’s going to be a bigger celebration of life ceremony within the close to future, which will likely be held for shut pals and the individuals who Stephen thought-about his household.
Presumably, the bigger celebration would come with Ellen DeGeneres and workers members from her present — on which tWitch served because the DJ for years. The of us from “So You Think You Can Dance” would additionally seemingly be on the prolonged checklist for the memorial down the highway.
TMZ broke the story … tWitch took his personal life final month, abandoning a suicide notice alluding to previous struggles. Despite points he was clearly coping with, there did not appear to be any signal, outwardly, that one thing was flawed … as his demise took everybody abruptly.
There has been an outpouring of tributes made in his honor from the leisure trade and past — together with heartfelt condolences despatched by Ellen herself.
He was 40.
RIP
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