Anna Delvey is hitting back at Dancing With the Stars after her elimination during week two of Season 33 that is still being talked about. Depite many people fighting in her corner and defending her, including her pro Ezra Sosa and her friend Julia Fox , Delvey — who still wears an ankle monitor as she's under house arrest — had some scathing remarks for the ABC dancing competition show. She spoke to NBC News about the horrible backlash she endured over her casting, her brutal exit, and how she believes the show "used" her to boost ratings.
Where to watch DWTS Season 33 premiere and what to expect DWTS star Rylee Arnold names top 'threats' this season ahead of big clash “I feel that the show so obviously used me to drive up the ratings, that they never had any plans to give me any chance to grow and only cared about exploiting me for attention,” Delvey wrote in an email. “It was predatory of them to try [to] make me feel inadequate and stupid all while I did get progressively better yet they chose to disregard that.” Delvey's exit was due to low votes from fans and so it had nothing to do with the showrunners.
Viewers were never really on board with her casting in the first place due to her background. The "fake heiress," a Russian-born German citizen, gained notoriety for being convicted on counts of grand larceny and theft of services in 2019 after scamming thousands of dollars while pretending to be a wealthy socialite in New York . While many people, including.