A fight reportedly broke out at the funeral of So You Think You Can Dance winner Joshua Allen over the weekend.
The dancer died last month at the age of 36, his family confirmed. His cause of death has not been shared.
Allen won the fourth series of the US dance competition show in 2008, clinching the $250,000 prize money for the flagship Fox series.
His runner-up on the show was the late Stephen ‘tWitch’ Boss, who died in December 2023, aged 40.
The funeral of the late dancer was held in Fort Worth, Texas and in the days since, footage has circulated online of the moment a fight broke out around the star’s casket.
In the clip, a woman can be seen leaning over his casket while another pulls her back, after which a commotion can be heard.
Fort Worth Police are said to have been called to the scene twice and stayed until the funeral ended, according to TMZ, who also reported that no arrests were made.
Allen’s father Eddie Powell has told the publication that the woman leaning over the casket in the video was the late dancer’s girlfriend, who had been trying to lay a note in his coffin and kiss him goodbye.
He said the incident has caused a rift in the family, also telling the publication: ‘She was his heart. She was trying to help him get mental health treatment when the police got involved instead.’
In the wake of his death in October, Allen’s family asked fans for ‘privacy and prayers’.
His friend and fellow choreographer Emmanuel Hurd said he was shocked by the loss to the dance community, describing Allen as ‘a very honest, real person’.
‘He didn’t always do things the way that everybody thought he should, but that’s why he was a winner,’ Hurd told the publication.
Before competing on So You Think You Can Dance, Allen said he had taken modern dance and ballet classes, but had received no formal training.
Once he made it through several auditions for the show, he said he signed up for all the dance classes he could to expand his knowledge.
As for how he wanted to spend the show prize money, he told Entertainment Weekly: ‘I want to save [the $250,000 prize] and have it grow. I’m going to move out to L.A., of course, and follow my career.’
Metro attempted to contact a representative of Joshua Allen but none were available.
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