Anna Delvey has the perfect next partner for Dancing With the Stars pro Ezra Sosa: Julie Chrisley.
During an exclusive interview with Us Weekly, Sosa, 24, joked how his Instagram DMs are full of DWTS fans suggesting which “new convicted hot felon” should be his partner.
“It was Julie Chrisley and then Karen Read. Then it was Luigi Mangione,” he quipped. “Anna is rooting for me to have Julie Chrisley next season. She was rooting for me when that whole pardon was happening. She sent me a text [that read], ‘I hope you have Julie Chrisley next season.’”
Sosa isn’t ruling out the suggestion ahead of season 34.
“I said, ‘I fear we’ll make it further than you and I did.’ I fear we could. Julie or her husband [Todd Chrisley]. Either one, we’ll make it work. [I’ll be back next season] and we’ll probably — hopefully — make it past one week. That’s the goal.”
ABC viewers were originally introduced to Sosa as a pro during season 33 when he was paired off with Delvey, 34. Her presence on Dancing With the Stars was a major topic of conversation after her past arrest in 2018. Delvey served two years in prison after being convicted on charges of grand larceny, second-degree larceny and theft of services. After paying $10,000 bail, Delvey was released in 2022 and placed on house arrest.
Ezra Sosa and Anna Delvey. Disney/Eric McCandless
DWTS would often pointedly show off Delvey’s ankle monitor before she was eliminated two weeks into the competition.
“I thought, like, ‘Well, they were building me up.’ It’s like, ‘Well, only if you smile more, only if you do X, Y, Z, it’s going to be so much better,’” she said on Tori Spelling‘s “Misspelling” podcast in September 2024. “It felt like they put so much effort in trying to get me on the show and make me feel comfortable, just to eliminate me this early. I see it, yeah, like an attempt of an embarrassment for us to get eliminated before Eric [Roberts] or Reginald [VelJohnson] in a dancing competition. Even though in the end it’s not that big of a deal.”
Delvey called her elimination “a bit upsetting,” adding, “It felt like a waste of time for me to do all this for them to just discard me so easily. I know the show was very excited to have me on, but the large part of the audience is not the people who would usually be excited about me in general.”
While reflecting on her journey, Delvey said she was proud of how much she improved in the short time she was on DWTS.
“I don’t think I’ve done the worst job on the show,” she continued. “We got eliminated and people who were, I think, below us got to stay on the show and makes it a bit sus for a show that’s called Dancing With the Stars, and not like Gossiping With the Stars or Making Friends With the Stars.”
The pressure is on for Dancing With the Stars to top the record-breaking success of season 33 — and Us has some ideas for how season 34 can up the ante. Two celebrity contestants have already been revealed, with Robert Irwin and influencer Alix Earle vying for the coveted mirrorball trophy when DWTS returns to […]
Julie, 52, for her part, was indicted alongside husband Todd, 56, in 2019 on charges of tax evasion, bank and wire fraud and conspiracy. After being found guilty in 2022, Todd was sentenced to 12 years in prison. Julie received a seven-year sentence. The couple maintained their innocence and continued to appeal their sentences. Todd and Julie were released in May after President Donald Trump pardoned the former reality TV stars.
While it remains to be seen whether Julie will join the season — and pair off with Sosa — the hit ABC series has already confirmed that TikToker Alix Earle and Steve Irwin’s son, Robert Irwin, are taking part in the next season.
The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives viewers were also in for a surprise when Jen Affleck and Whitney Leavitt both scored spots in the upcoming season. Sosa weighed in on Mormon casting while speaking to Us.
“The more the merrier,” Sosa, who grew up near Salt Lake City, shared. “There’s never enough Mormons on Dancing With the Stars.”
Sosa continued: “Everyone in Utah has a thing. My thing was dance, but my neighbor’s thing was piano. Every kid had a sport and activity. … And the dance culture in Utah is really big too, especially with ballroom.”
Dancing With the Stars season 34 premieres on ABC and Disney+ September 16 at 8 p.m. ET. New episodes will stream the next day on Hulu.
