Many Dancing with the Stars fans fumed over "fake heiress" Anna Delvey 's casting for Season 33, but host Julianne Hough is fully on board with the idea. During her recent appearance on the Call It What It Is podcast, Hough told Grey’s Anatomy stars Jessica Capshaw and Camilla Luddington that the 33-year-old con artist's casting is "controversial, for sure," but she's "so obsessed." Delvey — who was the subject of Netflix 's Inventing Anna — still wears an ankle monitor as she's still under house arrest for defrauding a series of banks, hotels, and individuals out of $275,000.
Con artist Anna Delvey tapped for Dancing with the Stars. Dancing With The Stars fans fume over controversial casting “Talk about controversy. But, then again, in a way that allows people to show their most true self.
This is a great opportunity for her,” Hough continued. “But I just love it so much because I was obsessed with the show.” Delvey — whose real name is Anna Sorokin — was sentenced to four to 12 years in prison after being convicted in May 2019 on one count of attempted grand larceny, three counts of grand larceny and four counts of theft for pretending to be a German heiress and scamming multiple financial institutions.
She was released on parole in February 2021 and is serving out the remainder of her term on house arrest. Delvey recieved permission to relocate from New York City to Los Angeles in order to appear on DWTS. Hough offered some more details about what it was .