‘So You Think You Can Dance’
Season 4 Winner Joshua Allen Dead at 36
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Joshua Allen — the winner of “So You Think You Can Dance” Season 4 — has died.
A member of the family tells TMZ he died on Sept. 30 however declined to share how he handed. The member of the family asks followers for “privacy and prayers.”
His years-long good friend within the dance neighborhood, Emmanuel Hurd, tells TMZ he’s shocked by his dying and remembers him as “a very honest, real person” who would inform you his personal flaws.
He goes on … “He didn’t always do things the way that everybody thought he should, but that’s why he was a winner.”
Joshua rose to fame in 2008 when he received ‘SYTYCD’. Notably, the late Stephen “tWitch” Boss was his runner-up they usually turned good associates.
After his huge win, Joshua revealed to Entertainment Weekly he by no means had technical dance coaching as a child, however would “try to take classes” throughout summer time breaks from college. Once he made it via a number of auditions for the present, he stated he signed up for all of the dance courses he might to develop his information.
He additionally revealed his huge desires on the time, saying he hoped to turn out to be a recording artist, but in addition choreograph and personal a studio and firm … and ultimately personal a file label and be a producer.
He did discover himself in some authorized hassle in 2016 when he was charged with domestic violence in Los Angeles. He in the end received a yr in jail plus probation in 2017, Deadline reported.
Joshua was 36.
RIP.
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