Anna Delvey took a little something away from Dancing With the Stars after all.
The fake heiress, 33, reunited with dance partner Ezra Sosa for the DWTS season 33 finale two months after their elimination on Tuesday, November 26. After the episode, Anna reflected on her journey once again while speaking to E! News.
“I mean, it was fun,” she said. “I enjoyed it.”
Ezra, 24, added, “I think at the end of it all, we really gained such a strong bond, whether you like it or not. We’re kind of stuck together.”
Anna, whose casting on DWTS was already controversial given her con artist history and house arrest status, went viral for her exit interview following her and Ezra’s elimination during week two. The pair were sent home along with Tori Spelling and her partner, Pasha Pashkov.
During the September 24 episode, Julianne Hough asked Anna what she wanted to take away from the show. “Nothing,” she bluntly responded.
Many fans were shocked at Anna’s response and took to social media to slam the star.
“Rude, entitled, condescending, obnoxious for starters. Feel for the people she fleeced out of their money,” one user wrote on X, while another person called Anna “horrific.”
A few DWTS cast members also weighed in on the controversy. Judge Carrie Ann Inaba told Entertainment Weekly that she was “taken aback” by the fraudster’s comment.
“That was dismissive not only of the opportunity she was given, of her wonderful and supportive partner Ezra [Sosa] in his debut season, but also of all of us who work on the show — from the dancers to behind the scenes to the creative team,” she said in a September 25 interview.
Carrie Ann, 56, added that everyone on the show “put in the effort to give her a fair opportunity.” She continued, “But I don’t think she could see that and it’s a shame. A little gratitude could have changed the narrative.”
On the other side of the coin, Julianne, 36, had a more positive response to Anna’s reaction.
“There you have it … ICONIC,” the Footloose actress wrote on Instagram.
Anna later doubled down on her comment, telling Tori, 51, that it “was the truth.”
“It is what it is and it’s fine,” she said on the September 28 episode of Tori Spelling’s “misSPELLING” podcast after expressing frustration at being eliminated over dancers she felt were weaker than her. “And I never had high expectations on the show for myself. It just seems like … it seems like it’s been mostly a negative experience, at least for me, than it was a positive one.”
She continued, “[They] told me what I’m supposed to do. I tried to do it. And then I was still rejected. And I’m taking away nothing. This is what I’m taking away from it – because [their] advice was worthless. The advice [they gave] 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.”
