It’s safe to say Anna Delvey is putting away her dancing shoes.
After the recently-ousted Dancing with the Stars contestant told co-host Julianne Hough she’d take “nothing” away from her experience on Season 33 of the ABC competitive reality show, she recently explained “because that was the truth.”
“You guys told me what I’m supposed to do. I tried to do it and then I still was rejected,” said Delvey (aka Anna Sorokin) on co-star Tori Spelling‘s misSPELLING podcast. “And, I’m taking away nothing. This is what I’m taking away from it, because your advice was worthless.
“The advice … did not pay off for me, even though I tried to follow it. And this is how I felt. I know… people were trying to interpret my answer in different ways, but no, not really. I really did not take away much from this experience.”
She continued, “I think I had to be on the defensive, especially after all the backlash that I received being cast on the show, even though the producers [tried] to defend me. And I think everyone on the cast was generally very nice to me. But in the end, I don’t know.”
Alfonso Ribeiro, Anna Delvey and Ezra Sosa on Season 33 of Dancing with the Stars.
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Delvey and partner Ezra Sosa were eliminated in Week 2, along with Spelling and partner Pasha Pashkov.
The convicted fraudster said the early elimination was “a bit upsetting to me,” and her experience “felt like a waste of time … just to discard me so easily,” adding: “Because I felt like, well, they were building me up. It’s like, oh, well, ‘Only if you smile more, only if you do like XYZ. It’s going to be so much better for you.’ And it felt like they put so much effort trying to get me on the show, like, make me feel comfortable just to… eliminate me this early.”
Delvey wore a bedazzled ankle monitor during her time on the show, after she was convicted of grand larceny and other charges in April 2019. The Russian-German immigrant was released from ICE custody in October 2022 and put on house arrest in Manhattan.
Posing as a wealthy heiress and conning New York’s upperclass out of $275,000 between 2013 and 2017, Delvey’s infamous exploits were immortalized in Shonda Rhimes‘ 2022 Netflix limited series Inventing Anna, starring Julia Garner.
