Watch Fake Heiress Anna Delvey Make Her 'DWTS' Season 33 Debut on Sabrina Carpenter's 'Espresso' — With Her Bedside Monitor
Anna Delvi is putting her best foot forward in the ballroom – and between those feet is a blinged out ankle monitor.
The socialite con artist — whose real name is Anna Sorokin — brought attention to the accessory during the season 33 premiere of “Dancing With the Stars” on Tuesday.
Introduced as a “fashionista and entrepreneur” at the top of the show, Delvey, 33, took to a dance floor wearing an ankle monitor to match her ombre blue, purple, pink and yellow dress. The device appears to be closed with a bow.
The glittery ankle monitor got its own great reveal when Delvy danced the cha-cha to Sabrina Carpenter's “Espresso.”
Delvy's tracking device was also discussed in the pre-taped segment played just before her dance, as the convicted felon walked over the monitor while rehearsing with new pro Ezra Sosa.
“That ankle monitor is kind of holding you back today,” Sosa quipped while practicing their moves.
During the segment, Delvio explained why he had to wear the device. “I ran out of my visa because I was in jail so it's hard to leave,” he said with a little laugh.
“I've served my time,” he added, adding that he hopes he changes how his critics see him.
“I've reinvented myself so many times, and this time I'm going to be a ballroom dancer.”
Delvey won three 6s from the judges, who were complimentary of the “fashionista”.
“I'm kind of, like, a little lost for words,” Derek Hough said, apparently caught off guard. “You really have the advantage of being a beautiful dancer. Really, you really do.” He added, “I was a little surprised.”
Bruno Tonioli then weighed in with a pun about the TV show inspired by Delvi's criminal history, “Ana Invention”.
“Reinventing Anna … Again! And it might work! Tonioli shouted with his characteristic bombast.
Carrie Ann Inaba ended the trial by addressing the elephant in the room.
“I just want to say something. The energy in this room changed when you stepped out onto the dance floor,” Inaba said. “And I just want to say, let's all give it a chance, because I can imagine it's scary for you, and I'm not for or against anything you've done. But it's about your dancing here.
Inaba tried to wrap up her rapid-fire thoughts on Delvy's “DWTS” debut as time ran out. “Let's all give him that space, on that note, please,” he continued, before being interrupted by the show's house band. “On that note, I think I'm done!”
When asked by host Julianne Hough what she hoped people would take away from her time on the show, Delvy replied, “I hope America gets a chance to see a different side of me.”
As “DWTS” taps in LA, Delvey has been given special permission to appear on the competition series alongside Sosa.
Sosa shared a photo of her and Delvy in their primetime ensemble on Instagram shortly before the season premiere.
Delvey's spokeswoman, Juda Engelmayer, confirmed that he can travel anywhere within 70 miles of his home base and within the five boroughs of New York City under previous house arrest conditions, according to the Associated Press. However, they could not comment on any change in that rule.
The New York resident has also been forced to wear an ankle monitor since his release from prison in 2022.
Delvy exclusively told The Post that he doesn't really want the “glam” that comes with wearing a GPS tracker.
“Every time I go out, what's written is that I'm sporting an ankle bracelet or I'm flaunting it,” she explained in August. “People don't seem to want to admit that I have no choice but to wear it.”
Delvey added: “It's just like I don't want to make a surprise like that. I want to be able to go out, and not have every delivery person asking me if I killed my husband or looking at something.”
On the way to June's court appearance, she decided to have some fun by putting the letter “A” in rhinestones on an ankle bracelet. “I've been wearing one for about two years. I think, once or twice, it's my right to dress it up,” Delvy continued, with an ICE source calling him a “bedazzled b—h.”
But as a new season begins, Delvi has some concerns in the fashion department.
“I think the biggest hurdle is over-the-knee boots but the fall season is still upon us,” she admits. “Until now I've had bigger problems to worry about.”
The “fake heiress” was arrested in 2017 for defrauding major financial institutions, banks, hotels and friends of more than $250,000 to fund her lavish lifestyle by pretending to be the daughter of a German oil tycoon.
Two years later, Delvy was convicted of eight counts, including grand larceny, second-degree larceny, and attempted theft of services, but was acquitted of two additional charges.
Delvy was released in February 2021 after being sentenced to four to 12 years in prison, which included time spent behind bars during the trial.
But his legal troubles were not over as Delvi was then detained by immigration authorities for overstaying his visa.
In 2022, Delvy was released from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody, where he spent over a year at the Orange Country Correctional Facility.
After the ordeal, he told The New York Times, “I definitely have a different perspective now than when I first got out last February. It's impossible to go through what I went through without changing. I learned a lot in prison.”
The whirlwind story led Shonda Rhimes to write “Inventing Anna” from the journalist's perspective (played by Anna Chlumsky), which viewers thought was based on real-life reporter Jessica.
Delvy watched some episodes of the Netflix drama and found the fictional version of her (played by Julia Garner) more “fearless” than him.
“I think I'm more aware of the way I come across, not all the time, but I don't think I'm as brash and brazen,” she told the New York Times.