A contestant from a once-popular reality dance competition show recently died from cancer.
Donyelle Denise Wilson, a dancer known as Donyelle Jones who appeared on “So You Think You Can Dance,” died Tuesday after fighting cancer for almost a decade.
An announcement was posted to her Instagram page Tuesday morning revealing she had “transitioned.”
“Today at 8:34am, Donyelle Denise Wilson, transitioned,” the post read. “A wife. A daughter. A sister. A friend. And a warrior who kicked cancer’s ass every single day she was here. Her spirit never dimmed. Her heart never hardened. And even in the storm, she never lost her smile.”
Jones appeared in Season 2 of Fox’s “So You Think You Can Dance” in 2006. Her hip-hop and jazz dance style thrust her into the spotlight, leading to a third place finish in the competition.
The dancer’s death comes nearly 10 years after she was diagnosed with Stage 3C breast cancer in 2016. The cancer later progressed to Stage 4 metastatic breast cancer, according to a profile from Dancers Against Cancer.
Jones documented her breast cancer journey on social media following her diagnosis.
In one of her final posts, shared in late November, Jones said she had done “everything possible to extend my time in this dimension and at this point I have surrendered to whatever God’s will is.”
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