Three days after Anna Delvey was eliminated from Dancing with the Stars, Julianne Hough tells PEOPLE she’s staying “very impartial” to Delvey’s terse response.
On the Democracy Heroes occasion in New York Metropolis on Friday, Sept. 27, the DWTS co-host tells PEOPLE what she makes of Delvey’s response to her elimination. The convicted con artist informed Hough on this week’s episode that she would be taking “nothing” away from her expertise.
“I am at all times a giant believer in grace and second possibilities and displaying up,” Hough, 36, tells PEOPLE. “Additionally, it is exhausting to exit first within the competitors.”
Delvy, 33, and her companion Ezra Sosa had been eradicated alongside Tori Spelling and her companion Pasha Pashkov.
“I additionally heard someplace that she was really playing around and being very literal about that, along with her historical past,” continues Hough, seemingly referencing Delvey’s controversial previous. “So there was that.”
Delvey, whose actual title is Anna Sorokin, gained notoriety for posing as a wealthy German heiress and utilizing her social standing to defraud rich individuals, banks, and lodges.
She was arrested in 2017, and two years later, she was convicted of grand larceny in the first, second and third degree and theft of companies. She was sentenced to 4 to 12 years in state jail, fined $24,000, and ordered to pay restitution of about $199,000. Her sentence was shortened, and she or he was released in 2021 for good behavior.
After her launch, she was taken into custody by ICE for violating the terms of her visa and since has been living under house arrest in New York Metropolis.
She informed PEOPLE earlier than the beginning of the DWTS season that she “had to request ICE for permission to travel out of state.”
Hough additionally shared a clip from the present’s Tuesday telecast on Instagram and captioned the submit: “There you may have it….. ICONIC 🤣☠️.”
Sosa, who had been promoted to a pro dancer this season, commented in her protection, writing, “I believe she was referring to something you’d be taking away ‘bodily.’ ”
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Dancing with the Stars airs Tuesdays at 8 p.m. ET on ABC and may be streamed the subsequent day on Disney+ and Hulu.