{"id":2604,"date":"2023-02-27T16:55:56","date_gmt":"2023-02-27T16:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/strongermarriages\/?p=2604"},"modified":"2023-02-27T17:04:27","modified_gmt":"2023-02-27T17:04:27","slug":"allison-holker-thanks-fans-for-their-love-and-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/strongermarriages\/2023\/02\/allison-holker-thanks-fans-for-their-love-and-support.html","title":{"rendered":"Allison Holker Thanks Fans For Their Love and Support"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2613\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2613\" style=\"width: 499px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2613\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/413\/2023\/02\/allison-holker-stephen-boss-credit-kathy-hutchins-shutterstock3-350x263.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"499\" height=\"374\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2613\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kathy Hutchins\/Shutterstock.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Allison Holker, the wife of the late Stephen \u201ctWitch\u201d Boss, thanked fans for the support and love they showed her and her family after Boss\u2019 death in December of 2022. Holker shared her sentiments in a heartfelt Instagram video.<\/p>\n<p>Holker said, \u201cIt has been very challenging and emotional, but you guys have brought so much hope and inspiration to us by sharing stories and memories and moments and different ways that Stephen impacted your life.\u201d Holker, who, like Boss, was a contestant on \u201cSo You Think You Can Dance,\u201d also said that Boss was someone \u201cwho was just beautiful and he lived life from love.\u201d She added that he made you feel a certain way.<\/p>\n<p>Holker continued, \u201cMy family and I have always said that we wanted to make sure that our purpose was lived out by bringing joy to people, joy to people\u2019s homes from dance or love. That\u2019s not going to change for us. It\u2019s going to feel a little bit different, but we know that that\u2019s our purpose, and we\u2019ll still do that.\u201d She ended her message by encouraging fans to steer toward love in their lives.<\/p>\n<p>She said, \u201cI hope that we can remember the feeling he gave us and remember that we can still move from there, we can still move and choose love, and we can still choose grace, and we can still choose kindness.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/Co0nYAQg_K1\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\">\n<div style=\"padding: 16px;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 19% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-top: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;\">View this post on Instagram<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 12.5% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; margin-bottom: 14px; align-items: center;\">\n<div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(0px) translateY(7px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; height: 12.5px; transform: rotate(-45deg) translateX(3px) translateY(1px); width: 12.5px; flex-grow: 0; margin-right: 14px; margin-left: 2px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(9px) translateY(-18px);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 20px; width: 20px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 2px solid transparent; border-left: 6px solid #f4f4f4; border-bottom: 2px solid transparent; transform: translateX(16px) translateY(-4px) rotate(30deg);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: auto;\">\n<div style=\"width: 0px; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-right: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(16px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; flex-grow: 0; height: 12px; width: 16px; transform: translateY(-4px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-left: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(-4px) translateX(8px);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin-bottom: 24px;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 224px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 144px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;\"><a style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/Co0nYAQg_K1\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A post shared by Allison Holker (@allisonholker)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Holker, who has shared numerous tributes to her late husband on Instagram, received several touching replies to her post. Ellen Degeneres wrote, \u201cHis light is still so bright. So is yours.\u201d Degeneres also urged fans to \u201cdo the things\u201d they loved to do in honor of Boss in December. A former star of \u201cThe Wonder Years,\u201d Danica McKellar, wrote that it warms her heart to hear that Holker will continue her life\u2019s purpose and \u201cbring joy to the world through dance.\u201d McKellar wrote, \u201cJust think of the inspiration you\u2019ll bring to others when they see you summon the strength to dance through your pain and find joy. Sending love to you!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Holker\u2019s daughter also recently returned to TikTok to pay tribute to her late adoptive father. Weslie Fowler, 14,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@weslierenae83\/video\/7202427320542498091\">posted a video<\/a> showing her in the mirror holding a phone with a photo of Boss. The video was captioned, \u201cI miss you.\u201d Audio of Mac Miller\u2019s song \u201cSurf\u201d can be heard playing. Her mother, who also shares a 6-year-old son named Maddox and a 3-year-old daughter named Zaia with Boss, commented on the video, writing, \u201cI love you baby girl always and forever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Losing someone you love is never easy, especially when it\u2019s unexpected. However, the Boss family is the perfect example of honoring your lost loved one while attempting to move forward with your life. Though they\u2019ll never see him in the physical world again, the Boss family and fans can cherish the good times and memories they had while he was living. We should all cherish our loved ones while they\u2019re here. If you or anyone you know is struggling, <a href=\"https:\/\/988lifeline.org\/\">help is available.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allison Holker, the wife of the late Stephen \u201ctWitch\u201d Boss, thanked fans for the support and love they showed her and her family after Boss\u2019 death in December of 2022. 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Holker said, \u201cIt has been very challenging and emotional, but you guys have brought so much&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":2613,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fbia_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36,23],"tags":[375],"class_list":["post-2604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","category-relationships","tag-allison-holker"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Allison Holker Thanks Fans For Their Love and Support<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Allison Holker, the wifte of Stephen &quot;tWitch&quot; Boss, recently paid tribute to her husband while thanking his fans in an Instagram video.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, 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