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Well, she burned fast and dimly, but Anna Delvey and her bejeweled ankle monitor wasn’t able to con her way past the first elimination round on this season of Dancing With the Stars. After doing a low-energy quick step with her partner, Ezra Sosa, Anna was one of the two couples who was eliminated from the competition. (The night was a double-elimination. The other couple to go home was Tori Spelling and Pasha Pashkov.) Given the backlash that Anna received after the first episode, I don’t think anyone was surprised that she and Ezra were among the bottom two couples. What everyone *is* buzzing about, however, was her exit interview with Julianne Hough. Julianne asked her what she’d be taking away from her time on DWTS. Anna simply replied, “Nothing.”
Anna Delvey is shrugging off her short-lived stint on “Dancing With the Stars.” After the “fake heiress” was eliminated Tuesday night — alongside pro partner Ezra Sosa, as well as Tori Spelling and Pasha Pashkov — co-host Julianne Hough asked Delvey what she would “take away from the competition.”
In the final seconds of the live show, the 33-year-old savagely replied, “Nothing.”
Sosa, 23, appeared surprised by his partner’s response but smiled as Hough exclaimed, “There you have it!”
Co-host Alfonso Ribeiro then chimed in, saying, “She’s not taking anything away? You had fun. Stop it.”
Social media users reacted to Delvey’s savage, single-word response via X, calling it an “incredible” moment.
“The absolute panic to when Julianne and Alfonso had to react to Anna Delvey saying she was taking NOTHING from the show,” one fan wrote, with another highlighting Hough’s “nervous laughter.”
A third added, “omg them trying to play it off like ‘NAH YOU HAD FUN HAHAHA’ I couldn’t stop laughing.”
While some labeled her “devotion to cattiness … amusing,” others slammed her as a “disrespectful and ungrateful” contestant.
“I feel badly for her partner,” one wrote of Sosa. “He deserved so much better.”
Ever since the duo were revealed as partners on Sept. 4, Sosa has been supporting Delvey — who has been on house arrest since 2022 after serving nearly four years behind bars for theft-related charges — amid the backlash.
“They finally found her in the bathroom and she was crying,” he tearfully said in a TikTok video following last week’s Season 33 premiere. “It really did break my heart.”
The criticism has continued, with former “DWTS” pro Maksim Chmerkovskiy telling “TMZ Podcast” listeners that Delvey was a “s–tty dancer.”
“What are you going to take away from this competition?” “Nothing.” LMAO. I mean, did anyone expect anything else from Anna? I’ll admit that I laughed out loud at how petty it was, but yes, even if it was the blunt truth, it was also rude. It felt like she was so flustered in the moment that her new mask came off for a second. Oh! And in the little clip they played of them practicing beforehand, Julia Fox made an appearance as Anna’s friend to support her. It was so random. Anyway, I just feel bad for her partner. He just got brought up to be a pro and seems like a nice person. Hopefully he gets a more popular “star” to dance with next season.
this is the most iconic exit line ever in reality tv history 😭 #dwts pic.twitter.com/i7FGuUumBW
— marc 💋 (@lovegisellle) September 25, 2024
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I am still side eyeing AD’s participation on DWTS, and I still don’t understand why they felt the need to include her—she was not a popular choice at all.
I’m certain that AD, looking at this from the other perspective, wanted something from agreeing to participate as well. Sympathy? Ankle bracelet removal? A green card? The ability to grift? Lots of money?
“Nothing.” Julia Fox along with DWTS is trying to polish her image—she didn’t walk away with nothing.
I watch the show occasionally and happened to see one of her dances. They introduced her as “fashion icon and entrepreneur” Anna Delvey. WTH? Enterpreneur?
She had no right to be on the show in the first place. When is she going to get deported? Where’s the Heritage Foundation on this case?
“Where’s the Heritage Foundation on this case?”
Great question, Amy Bee!
YES.
For someone who managed to manipulate so many people with her scams I’m surprised at this. It’s a really basic ‘I don’t want to be here anyway’ defensive style of response, ‘see, you’re not taking anything away from me’.
Well, she took away $125,000 – that’s not nothing.
Good. Now they can deport her.
I know nothing about her so did a quick google. The first line under her name began “ Anna Delvey is a con artist and fraudster”. That’s pretty succinct!
The most shocking thing about this story is that Tori Spelling has waited this long to be on DWTS.
Maybe she thought they were asking if she had stolen anything. (JK)
Well considering she’s a master grifter, that’s probably where her mind went to. “Darn, I didn’t get to even lift any credit cards!”
Ooh good point, reflex answer. Deny, deny, deny.
Well, she took what she brought so I guess that’s fair.
They also paid her a lot of money.
Once they had national disgrace and trumper sean spicer on- that show is dead to me.
I was never a regular watcher, but i would check it out if one of my nostalgia celebrities was on- but after that- no.
And this felonious trash? Just- there truly is no bottom of the barrel.
Good. The public has spoken. I am boycotting this season because what is a supposed to be a “wholesome family” show selected a convicted felon as a celebrity.
Her face looks even worse in that thumbnail photo. Wow.
She definitely looked better before the plastic surgery than after.
She had surgery? Wasn’t she on house arrest?
Given her proclivity for taking things that don’t belong to her, it is good news that this time she got NOTHING.
that is, without a doubt, one of the ugliest dresses I have ever seen.
Whoever thought it was cute to have a felonious con artist on the show should have their wrist rapped sharply or fired.
What was she supposed to take from it? It’s Dancing With The Stars. The pearl clutching is hilarious. “Oh no, she wasn’t grateful for the opportunity to dance!” “How dare they have her on this super serious show where only very serious people participate!!”
I’ve just become aware of how people who’s first language is not English take things literally, and she just lost, so she wasn’t taking away an award. I took it that she was answering literally, and I really liked her partners response. Not that she can’t be or isn’t a nasty person, but she could also have been literal. Someone else would have said, I’ve learned so much, it was such a wonderful experience, my partner has become a friend. I don’t know. She definitely is keeping up her persona.
It was a very Russian answer, but she partially did the show to rehabilitate her image and I don’t think she was successful at all
Why are we talking about this criminal when Pommel Horse Guy is on this season?!!!!?!
The narcissisist in her could not BELIEVE they would vote HER off. Peasants, all of us. How dare reality mess with her getting into show business. PEASANTS!