Anna Delvey. Disney/Eric McCandless
What did Anna Delvey miss about being on Dancing With the Stars? Nothing.
Delvey, 33, returned for the season 33 finale on Tuesday, November 26, where she danced to “I Want Nothing” with pro Ezra Sosa. The convicted felon poked fun at herself by mouthing the lyric “nothing.” (Delvey made headlines during her September elimination after cohost Julianne Hough asked her what she would take away from her time on the show and she replied, “nothing.”)
After reuniting with Sosa, 24, on the dance floor, Delvey was asked by fellow pro Emma Slater about her performance. Delvey called it “nothing” again before quipping that she was “excited for it to be over.” Sosa continued to commit to the bit by asking Delvey if she was going to miss spending time with him.
“I’m going to miss you. [It was] nice knowing you,” Delvey said on a TikTok Live on the official DWTS social media before casting her vote on who should win. “I think it would be really funny if no one wins.”
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Delvey’s presence on Dancing With the Stars has been a major topic of conversation since she joined the show in season 33. Before becoming a contestant, Delvey was arrested in 2018 and remained in prison through her sentencing the following year. She served two years after being convicted on charges of grand larceny, second-degree larceny and theft of services. After paying $10,000 bail, Delvey was released from prison in 2022 and placed on house arrest.
DWTS would often pointedly show off Delvey’s ankle monitor before she was eliminated two weeks into the competition.
“I thought, like, ‘Well, they were building me up.’ It’s like, ‘Well, only if you smile more, only if you do X, Y, Z, it’s going to be so much better,’” she said on Tori Spelling‘s “Misspelling” podcast that same month. “It felt like they put so much effort in trying to get me on the show and make me feel comfortable, just to eliminate me this early. I see it, yeah, like an attempt of an embarrassment for us to get eliminated before Eric [Roberts] or Reginald [VelJohnson] in a dancing competition. Even though in the end it’s not that big of a deal.”
Delvey called her elimination “a bit upsetting,” adding, “It felt like a waste of time for me to do all this for them to just discard me so easily. I know the show was very excited to have me on, but the large part of the audience is not the people who would usually be excited about me in general.”
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While reflecting on her journey, Delvey said she was proud of how much she improved in the short time she was on DWTS.
“I don’t think I’ve done the worst job on the show,” she continued. “We got eliminated and people who were, I think, below us got to stay on the show and makes it a bit sus for a show that’s called Dancing With the Stars, and not like Gossiping With the Stars or Making Friends With the Stars.”
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