Anna Delvey and her professional partner Ezra Sosa were among the first two couples sent home during the second week of Dancing With The Stars season 33 in September.
When she found out they had been eliminated from the show, the faux German heiress and convicted fraudster (born Anna Sorokin), 33, was asked what she would take away from the experience of being on the reality competition show.
She proceeded to give a brief but direct answer: “Nothing,” which sparked a wave of reaction and shock on social media.
Now, Sosa is commemorating Delvey’s resounding one-word response by getting a tattoo of “nothing,” written in cursive, on his upper back, along with the number “33” in recognition of season 33.
“I’m an idiot #dwts,” Sosa jokingly shared in the caption of his TikTok video showing the reveal of his new body ink.
Ezra Sosa, 23, commemorated his season 33 co-star’s controversial one-word response after being eliminated from Dancing With The Stars by getting “Nothing” tattooed on his back, along with the number “33.”
Along with Tori Spelling and her partner, Sosa and Delvey (born Anna Sorokin), 33, were the first eliminated from season 33 of DWTS.
Delvey (born Anna Sorokin), 33, added to her growing legacy of one-word answers by taking to the comments section to share her reaction to her former professional dance partner’s new body art.
“Exactly,” the Domodedovo, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union native wrote in the TikTok post.
Delvey and Tori Spelling were the first celebrities to be eliminated from the reality competition show during the September 24 show.
The duo earned 17 out of 30 points for their version of their fast step, set to the KT Tunstall song “Suddent I See.” That score, combined with viewer votes, added up to his expulsion from season 33.
Shortly after, the Dulvey-Sosa couple faced the music and the judges, where she gave her resounding one-word answer: “nothing.”
Judge Carrie Ann Inaba said she was disappointed by Delvey’s reaction and said Entertainment tonight she was “taken aback” by his comment.
“That was dismissive not only of the opportunity he was given, of his wonderful and supportive partner Ezra (Sosa) in his debut season, but also of all of us who worked on the show, from the dancers to backstage and the creative staff team,
Sosa would also weigh in on the controversy, revealing how he ‘knew she was going to say something very iconic and something very Anna Delvey’ before leaving the show, it was reported Extra.
He added: “Of course he has to; it’s very typical.” “We wouldn’t expect anything less from her,” the So You Think You Can Dance star later shared.
But it turns out the convicted DWTS contestant had a very different reaction to her ejection backstage after the show.
‘She honestly kept apologizing to me. “She was very sorry that my first season was cut short,” the Utah native said of his former dance partner, before sharing that he wished he had more air time.
‘Honestly, I wanted to stay with my partner longer. I really wanted to give her the opportunity to really grow on camera and let America really see who she is,” Sosa explained. “I really did my best to see her as the person she is outside of the person.”
The fake German heiress and convicted fraudster (born Anna Sorokin) was asked what she would take away from the experience of being on the reality competition show, to which she responded: “Nothing.”
Judge Carrie Ann Inaba maintained that she was disappointed by Delvey’s reaction, telling Entertainment Tonight that she was “baffled” by his comment.
Sosa took to TikTok and shared a quick video of his new “nothing” tattoo on his upper back, along with the number 33 just below it.
“I’m an idiot #dwts,” Sosa jokingly shared in the caption of his TikTok video.
Sosa would also weigh in on the controversy, revealing how he ‘knew she was going to say something very iconic and something very Anna Delvey’ before leaving the show.
Delvey gained global notoriety in 2022 with the release of the Netflix limited series Inventing Anna, which documented both her fake heiress persona and her crimes of defrauding banks and companies, which led to her spending about two years in prison; The couple is seen one day before their elimination from DWTS.
Two days later, Delvey slammed DWTS for accusing the show of “exploiting her for attention.”
“I feel like the show so obviously used me to boost ratings, that they never had any plan to give me any opportunity to grow and only cared about exploiting me for attention,” she told NBC News.
Delvey gained global notoriety in 2022 with the release of the Netflix limited series Inventing Anna, which documented both her fake heiress persona and her crimes of defrauding banks and companies.
Like Anna Sorokin, she served about two years in prison before being released on parole in February 2021.
