Con artist Anna Delvey, whose life story impressed the Netflix collection Inventing Anna, has signed as much as be a contestant on Dancing With The Stars, the US model of Strictly Come Dancing.

In the previous few years, Delvey – whose actual identify is Anna Sorokin – has turn out to be notorious for her crimes, pretending to be a rich socialite in New York.

This 12 months’s Dancing With The Stars forged additionally consists of two Workforce USA Olympians, rugby participant Ilona Maher and gymnastic bronze medalist Stephen Nedoroscik, and Beverly Hills, 90210 actress Tori Spelling.

Additionally on the dancefloor can be Oscar nominee Eric Roberts and Actual Housewives of Atlanta star Phaedra Parks.

Sorokin can be paired on the present with skilled dancer Ezra Sosa – and can be carrying an ankle monitor as she competes. She has worn the ankle monitor since 2022 when she began her home arrest, AP reported. She has been combating a deportation order.

Her spokesperson Juda Engelmayer advised AP that she was capable of journey inside 70 miles (110km) of her dwelling and anyplace inside New York Metropolis underneath earlier home arrest situations, however couldn’t touch upon any adjustments to these guidelines.

However speaking to Entertainment Tonight on the present’s launch, Delvey stated she needed to get permission to journey out of state to movie the present. She additionally stated she can be “bejewelling” her ankle tag.

Requested if she had any nerves forward of the present, she stated: “What is the worst that may occur? They cannot arrest me for dancing badly.”

The fraudster was discovered responsible in 2019 of theft of providers and grand larceny, having scammed greater than $200,000 (£145,000) from banks and luxurious lodges.

She would inform individuals she had a $60m (£46m) belief fund and an formidable venture to create an eponymous arts basis.

However she was, in actual fact, a current journal intern, who got here from an strange household of Russian immigrants dwelling in Germany.

By staying in costly lodges and presenting a jet-set life on Instagram, she managed to trick others into believing her fantasy and selecting up her payments.

Her story got here to worldwide consideration in 2018 after a New York Journal function by author Jessica Pressler.

It was then tailored by Shonda Rhimes, the artistic pressure behind Gray’s Anatomy, Bridgerton and Scandal, in a Netflix collection the place Sorokin was performed by Julia Garner.

Sorokin was paid $320,000 (£230,000) by Netflix for Inventing Anna – however she was not capable of preserve all of the Netflix cash, owing to a New York regulation that stops criminals from cashing in on their notoriety.

“I by no means requested for Netflix to purchase my story, it simply occurred,” Sorokin advised the BBC in 2021, following her launch from jail. “And every little thing else, it simply spun out of my management.”

The BBC podcast collection Fake Heiress is on BBC Sounds