{"id":2185445,"date":"2025-12-03T15:45:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T15:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2185445"},"modified":"2025-12-03T15:45:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T15:45:12","slug":"so-you-think-you-can-dance-star-donyelle-jones-dead-at-46","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/so-you-think-you-can-dance-star-donyelle-jones-dead-at-46\/","title":{"rendered":"‘So You Think You Can Dance’ Star Donyelle Jones Dead at 46"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“So You Think You Can Dance” star Donyelle Jones<\/strong> has died after a long battle with breast cancer.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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The tragic news was shared on her Instagram Tuesday, with the heartbreaking announcement reading … “Today at 8:34am, Donyelle Denise Wilson, transitioned. A wife. A daughter. A sister. A friend. And a warrior who kicked cancer\u2019s a** every single day she was here.”<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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Jones was diagnosed with stage 3C breast cancer nearly a decade ago, and despite treatments, it progressed to stage 4 metastatic breast cancer.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n


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She competed on Season 2 of the hit reality dance competition in 2006, finishing third behind Travis Wall<\/strong> and winner Benji Schwimmer<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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A week before her death, Jones confirmed she was in hospice and was preparing for death, noting … \u00a0“I have done everything possible to extend my time here in this dimension. At this point I have surrendered to whatever God\u2019s will is.”<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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Schwimmer paid tribute to his fellow dancer following the news of her death, sharing clips of her performing on ‘SYTYCD’ on Instagram, along with a video of himself speaking about the impact she made on him and the world.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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In the tearful clip, he said their dance partnership was like a marriage, but in some ways closer.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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She was 46.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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Donyelle Jones ‘So You Think You Can Dance’ Star Dead at 46 Published December 3, 2025 6:36 AM PST | Updated December 3, 2025 7:44 AM PST “So You Think You Can Dance” star Donyelle Jones has died after a long battle with breast cancer. The tragic news was shared on her Instagram Tuesday, with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2185446,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2185445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/So-You-Think-You-Can-Dance-Star-Donyelle-Jones-Dead.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2185445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2185445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2185445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2185447,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2185445\/revisions\/2185447"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2185446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2185445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2185445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2185445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}