{"id":1995557,"date":"2025-09-03T21:57:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T21:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1995557"},"modified":"2025-09-03T21:57:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T21:57:08","slug":"dwts-pro-ezra-sosa-hilariously-shades-former-partner-felon-anna-delvey-amid-cast-announcement-star-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/dwts-pro-ezra-sosa-hilariously-shades-former-partner-felon-anna-delvey-amid-cast-announcement-star-magazine\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018DWTS\u2019 Pro Ezra Sosa Hilariously Shades Former Partner Felon Anna Delvey Amid Cast Announcement \u2013 Star Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18373\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 750px;\"><figcaption class=\"mtSubImg\"><span class=\"wp-desc-text\"\/> <span class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anna Delvey\/Instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>Dancing With the Stars<\/em> pro <strong>Ezra Sosa<\/strong> is preparing to re-do his ballroom debut during season 34, and he\u2019s throwing shade at his season 33 partner, <strong>Anna Delvey<\/strong>, in the process.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPOV: I actually have a shot this year,\u201d Sosa, 24, wrote over a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@ezrasosa\/video\/7545895237714005262\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TikTok<\/a> video with new partner and Olympic gymnast <strong>Jordan Chiles<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The video, set to <strong>John Lennon<\/strong> and<strong> Yoko Ono<\/strong>\u2019s hit \u201cSo This Is Christmas (The War Is Over),\u201d was simply captioned, \u201cThe war is over.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sosa was partnered with convicted felon Delvey for his first season on the competition series. The pair were eliminated during Week 2 when Delvey infamously claimed she took \u201cnothing\u201d away from her experience.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18383\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 758px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18383\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.starmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-03-at-5.28.28-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"578\" height=\"798\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-03-at-5.28.28-PM.png 578w, https:\/\/starmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-03-at-5.28.28-PM-217x300.png 217w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 578px) 100vw, 578px\"\/><figcaption class=\"mtSubImg\"><span class=\"wp-desc-text\"\/> <span class=\"wp-caption-text\">TikTok\/Ezra Sosa<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI 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,\u201d she told <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/pop-culture\/tv\/anna-delvey-sorokin-speaks-dancing-stars-dramatic-exit-rcna172914\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>NBC News<\/em><\/a> after their elimination. \u201cIt 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She added, \u201cIt felt like I was never really given a fair chance by the viewers or some of the judges\u2019 given their nonsensical scoring. It\u2019s supposed to be a dance competition and not a popularity contest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Delvey was arrested in 2017 after defrauding friends, financial institutions and more out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. She was found guilty of eight charges, including grand larceny in the second degree, and served two years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>After being released on parole in February 2021, she was soon taken into custody again by ICE due to an expired visa.\u00a0 Delvey was released from jail in October 2022 and placed under house arrest. She told <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/anna-delvey-had-to-request-ice-for-permission-for-dancing-with-the-stars-exclusive-8706723\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>People<\/em><\/a> that she was given clearance to compete on<em> DWTS<\/em> amid her house arrest.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source starmagazine.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anna Delvey\/Instagram Dancing With the Stars pro Ezra Sosa is preparing to re-do his ballroom debut during season 34, and he\u2019s throwing shade at his season 33 partner, Anna Delvey, in the process. \u201cPOV: I actually have a shot this year,\u201d Sosa, 24, wrote over a TikTok video with new partner and Olympic gymnast Jordan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1995558,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1995557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/\u2018DWTS-Pro-Ezra-Sosa-Hilariously-Shades-Former-Partner-Felon-Anna.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1995557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1995557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1995557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1995558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1995557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1995557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1995557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}