Dancing With the Stars professional Ezra Sosa paid homage to his first superstar associate, Anna Delvey, on Halloween.
Sosa, 23, donned a golden fringe gown, an extended brown wig, outsized sun shades and a bedazzled ankle monitor to appear like Delvey, 33, from the ballroom dance competitors.
In a TikTok video posted on Thursday, October 31, Sosa used a now-viral sound from the pair’s elimination.
“What are you going to remove from this competitors?” cohost Julianne Hough requested, to which Delvey memorably replied, “Nothing.”
In his clip, Sosa lowered his shades whereas lip-synching Delvey’s remarks.
“@AnnaDelvey how did I do?” he captioned the add.
@ezrasosa @Anna Delvey how did i do?! #dwts
The uncanny resemblance impressed present DWTS competitor Chandler Kinney, who commented, “EZRAAAAA BYEEEEE.”
In a second TikTok video, Sosa lip-synched traces from Inventing Anna (the Netflix miniseries tailored from Delvey’s story), “What are you sporting? You look poor.” Because the digicam panned, Sosa was sporting his golden costume.
“Free Anna Delvey,” he captioned the add.
Delvey and Sosa had been one of many first pairs eradicated from season 33 alongside Tori Spelling and professional Pasha Pashkov.
“It simply felt a bit upsetting to me,” Delvey stated on Spelling’s eponymous podcast in September. “It felt like a waste of time for me to do all this for them to simply discard me so simply. I do know the present was very excited to have me on, however the massive a part of the viewers shouldn’t be the individuals who would often be enthusiastic about me on the whole.”
Ezra Sosa and Anna Delvey Disney/Eric McCandless
She added, “I believed, like, ‘Effectively, they had been constructing me up.’ It’s like, ‘Effectively, provided that you smile extra, provided that you do X, Y, Z, it’s going to be so significantly better.’ It felt like they put a lot effort into making an attempt to get me on the present and make me really feel comfy, simply to eradicate me this early. I see it, yeah, like an try of a humiliation for us to get eradicated earlier than Eric [Roberts] or Reginald [VelJohnson] in a dancing competitors.”
Sosa may sense that Delvey felt embarrassed by her early exit. He additional commemorated their journey by getting a “Nothing 33” tattoo after their elimination.
Anna Delvey Disney/Andrew Eccles
“She stated, ‘Oh wow,’ with an exclamation level, which might be, like, essentially the most emotion she’s ever proven me, which is nice,” Sosa solely instructed Us Weekly final month of Delvey’s response to the ink. “After which I stated, ‘Do you prefer it?’ And she or he says, ‘It’s too late to not.’ After which I stated, ‘You prefer it?’ And she or he goes, ‘I do.’ So I used to be like, OK. It’s proof.”
In accordance with Sosa, it was “actually arduous to wrap [his] head round” getting booted first.
“Plenty of, you understand, being paired along with her, I feel there was a number of negativity surrounding that entire scenario and I used to be proper subsequent to her,” he instructed Us, referring to Delvey’s earlier fraud conviction and jail sentence. “So it’s difficult, simply processing all that. It’s been actually arduous, and I feel getting a tattoo is the one means to deal with it.”