Anna Delvey after a listless performance was surprisingly sent home on Tuesday from Dancing With The Stars during a double-elimination episode.
The 33-year-old fashionista and entrepreneur, who was convicted of grand larceny after posing as a heiress and whose life was portrayed in the Netflix show Inventing Anna, was eliminated from season 33 during the Oscars Night episode along with television star Tori Spelling, 51.
Delvey and her pro partner Ezra Sosa at the end of the two-hour episode faced elimination along with Spelling and her partner Pasha Pashkov and Die Hard star Reginald VelJohnson, 72, and his pro partner Emma Slater.
Show host Alfonso Ribeiro, 53, and co-host Julianne Hough, 36, informed viewers that the two couples having the lowest combined total of judges’ scores and viewer votes from the first two weeks of competition would be eliminated.
‘The final couple who is safe is…,’ Ribeiro said.
‘Reginald and Emma,’ Hough revealed.
‘Which means, Tori and Pasha and Anna and Ezra are going home,’ Ribeiro said.
Ribeiro first spoke to Spelling and asked her to describe her short journey on the show.
‘Unbelievable,’ Spelling said.
‘I’m just going to stay here. Sorry. You are stuck with me,’ she jokingly added.
Ribeiro asked if she had anything to say to her children in the audience.
‘I love you. You can do anything you put your mind to,’ Spelling said,.
‘And, Anna, what are you going to take away from this competition,’ Hough asked Delvey.
‘Nothing,’ Delvey said with a small laugh.
‘There you have it. Absolutely nothing,’ Hough said.
‘You had fun. Stop it. Stop it,’ Ribeiro said playfully.
‘Yeah, you did,’ Hough told her.
The convicted fraudster earlier during the two-hour episode was shown receiving surprise support from Julia Fox, 34, during rehearsal with Sosa.
Delvey told Sosa that she was ‘happy’ at first after their first dance, but felt ‘upset’ after reading critical comments about her online.
Sosa admitted that it also hurts him ‘tremendously’ to see negative comments about her online.
‘I’m used to people who feels negatively about me. I get upset for a short moment of time, but then I just move on,’ Delvey said in a confessional.
Sosa revealed they were dancing to a song from The Devil Wears Prada and Delvey said it was one of her favorite movies and noted that she worked in fashion for 10 years.
They were shown rehearsing before Fox came in unexpectedly and hugged Delvey.
‘When you’re young, you might do some things that you’re ashamed of later. But it all happened to you so publicly, so it’s only right that we now get to see your moment,’ Fox told Delvey.
In a confessional, Fox added: ‘It’s sad to see all the people being so nasty. Because if it were their sister or their mother, they would be all for a second chance.’
Fox told Delvey that she was a ‘sweetie pie’ and assured her that she would ‘win over America’s hearts.’
‘Although Anna does put up this tough exterior, it’s obviously a defense mechanism,’ Fox said in a confessional.
Delvey received a score of 17 for her Quickstep from the judges who urged her to bring more energy to her dancing, which she did again while wearing an ankle bracelet monitor.
Carrie Ann Inaba, 56, told her it was hard to deal with the haters, but insisted she had the potential to go far on the show if she embraced it more.
‘I started to see Anna the person, not just the persona of Anna,’ judge Derek Hough, 39, said while also asking for more energy from her.
Bruno Tonioli, 68, called it a ‘proper, elegant’ version of the Quickstep and urged Delvey to ‘drop the persona’.
The criticism of Delvey’s lack of energy was echoed on social media.
‘I love her lack of energy, go girl give us nothing!,’ read one post on X, formerly known as Twitter.
Another post on X commented: ‘Anna Delvey dances like we asked her to be on and are the ones bothering her lol. #DWTS’
Delvey and Spelling returned for week two of Dancing With The Stars after making memorable debuts during the season premiere on ABC. Delvey performed during the premiere with an ankle bracelet monitor and received a cool reception from the audience while taking the stage with new pro Sosa.
‘I hope everybody that feels negatively about me will be able to turn their opinion of me around,’ convicted fraudster Delvey said in a confessional during the premiere. ‘I am wearing an ankle bracelet. I overstayed my visa because I was in jail. So it’s hard to leave. I reinvented myself many times and this time I’m going to be a ballroom dancer.’
Delvey was convicted in 2019 of eight felony counts, including grand larceny, and was released from prison in 2021. She has been fighting deportation to Germany and a judge allowed her to wear an ankle bracelet as a condition of competing on season 33 of DWTS.
She danced the ChaCha during the season premiere with her partner to Sabrina Carpenter’s hit song ‘Espresso’.
The judges gave her a respectable score of 18 out of 30.
Inaba, 56, said she felt a shift in the energy when Delvey took the stage and encouraged everyone to give her a chance and to judge Delvey on her dancing.
‘Let’s all just give this a chance,’ Inaba said. ‘This is about your dancing here. Let’s all give her that space, please.’
The season 33 star-studded cast also incudes: ‘Real Housewives’ star Phaedra Parks; former Bachelorette star Jenn Tran; former Bachelor Joey Graziadei; Julia Roberts’ brother Eric Roberts; two-time Super Bowl champion Danny Amendola; Olympic rugby player Ilona Maher; actress Chandler Kinney; model Brooks Nader; ‘Family Matters’ actor Reginald VelJohnson; NBA star Dwight Howard; and Olympic gymnast Stephen Nedoroscik.
The remaining 11 contestants are competing to win the coveted Len Goodman Mirrorball Trophy.
Season 32 of DWTS was won by actress Xochitl Gomez, 18, and her pro partner Val Chmerkovskiy.