2 days Ago By Jailene Cuevas , Demetria Osei-Tutu
Dancing with the Stars is b . With hosts Alfonso Ribeiro and Julianne Hough and judges Carrie Ann Inaba, Derek Hough and Bruno Tonioli returning yet again. Season 33 of the has a host of new celebrities fighting for the Len Goodman Mirrorball Trophy as they work their way through foxtrots, waltzes and tangoes.
The contestants were are competing this year are former NFL player Danny Amendola, , , former NBA player Dwight Howard, actor-singer Chandler Kinney, Olympian rugby payer Ilona Maher, model Brooks Nader, Olympian gymnast Stephen Nedoroscik, Real Housewives of Atlanta's Phaedra Parks, actor Eric Roberts, actor Tori Spelling, The Bachelorette's Jenn Tran and actor Reginald VelJohnson. There have been much criticism about Anna, real name Anna Sorokin, joining the show as she is a convicted fraudster. She pretended to be a wealthy German heiress and reportedly swindled numerous elites in Manhattan for hundreds of thousands of dollars from 2013 to 2017.
She served four years in jail and was released in 2021. She has since been on house arrest as she currently is fighting her deportation case. Anna told the The Hollywood Reporter that she was given permission from U.
S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to be apart of DWTS. She is also going to continue wearing her ankle monitor while she is on the series, which she showcased during her performance.
The controversial contestant danced to "Espresso" by Sabrina Carpenter with dance partner Ezra Sosa. While her performance received a six from all three of the judges, viewers at home did not agree with how the show let her compete. Many couldn't take her performance serious.
One person on X, formerly known as Twitter, wrote: "Why are we celebrating Anna Delvey’s ankle monitor?" Another person wrote: "I can not with Anna Delvey on #DWTS and the bedazzled ankle monitor. Why is she on this show???" A third person wrote: "anna delvey dancing to espresso with a bedazzled ankle monitor was not on my bingo card for 2024." A fourth wrote: "Not Anna dancing with a bedazzled ankle monitor hahahahaha.
" Carrie Ann Inaba did not have time to say what she thought about the dance as she asked fans to take Anna serious as the show was about dance and not her past. Anna also wanted to make it clear that she was on the show to reinvent herself..
