Anna Delvey And Dancing with the stars partner Ezra Sosa had a special connection before they even set foot in the ballroom.
Delvey, 33, has only seen the 30th season of the reality dance competition, which happened to be the version that featured Sosa’s BFF JoJo Siwa competed with professional Jenna Johnson. (After Siwa, 21, and Johnson, 30, took second place, Dancing mothers Star hired 23-year-old Sosa for a series of dance lessons.)
“I mean, I didn’t tell (JoJo) I was going pro this year. And when I told her, she didn’t believe me, such a good friend, wow,” Sosa joked exclusively to We weekly on Wednesday, September 4. “But since then, she’s been texting me about everything. For example, her mom has a rhinestone company and gives me so many rhinestones so I can put rhinestones on (Anna’s ankle bracelet). She’s really part of the team.”
He continued: “(It) is actually super ironic because the only time (Anna) Dancing with the stars was in prison.”
Olympic bronze medalist Stephen Nedoroscik, Tori Spelling and more celebrities are ready to compete for the disco ball trophy on season 33 of Dancing With the Stars. The full cast for the upcoming season of the ABC reality competition show was announced on the Wednesday, September 4, episode of Good Morning America. Anna Delvey, Joey Graziadei, (…)
Delvey (born Anna Sorokin) was found guilty of attempted grand larceny, three counts of grand larceny, and four counts of larceny in May 2019 and sentenced to four to 12 years in prison. Delvey was paroled in February 2021 and served the remainder of her sentence under house arrest in New York City.
Anna Delvey
Disney/Andrew EcclesDWTS is filming its season in Los Angeles and Delvey was given permission to move to the City of Angels as long as she wears an ankle monitor. Although Delvey does not yet know when she will be able to remove the ankle monitor, she said Us what it was like to wear it in rehearsals.
“I mean, it’s OK. It’s just like dancing without it, I guess,” Delvey said. “It’s pretty easy. It’s not that bad.”
Sosa, meanwhile, joked that Delvey’s left leg would be “super strengthened” if they ended up doing the jive with its quick kicks and flicks.
“Good!” Delvey replied. “Because I wear it on my right cuff, since my right cuff is narrower than the left.”
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Delvey and Sosa “got along really well” during their first rehearsals.
“My first impression of Anna was that she was super sweet,” Sosa gushed. “Honestly, she walked past me, I said hi and she didn’t answer. And then she came back and I said hi again. And then I was like, ‘OK, yeah, we’re in.’ But she’s super sweet. She has a really dry sense of humor, which is my favorite thing personally.”
Sosa is also very excited to help Delvey “show America who she really is” outside of the headlines and Netflix Invent Anna. (Shonda Rhimes’ production company Shondaland produced a miniseries with Julia Garnerabout Delvey.)
“When I found out she was my partner, I almost fell off the treadmill,” joked Sosa, noting that he has no plans to watch the video. The invention of Anna“When the casting director told me, I was so excited and it was so authentic.”
Dancing with the stars Season 33 premieres Tuesday, September 17, at 8 p.m. ET on ABC and simultaneously on Disney+. Episodes will also be available on Hulu the next day.
With report by Christina Garibaldi
