Dancing With the Stars pro Ezra Sosa is reflecting on the near-misses in his career.
“I think my biggest flop was not going to Taylor Swift’s audition for her tour. I was invited,” Sosa, 24, claimed on a recent episode of Trisha Paytas’ “Just Trish” podcast. “I feel like [Madison] Beer saying this, but I [think] if I would have gone to the audition, I would have booked it.”
Sosa explained that he was “too busy” with his DWTS commitments to accept the audition invitation, which the ballroom competition “knew.”
“I definitely feel, like, me doing it at the time showed my loyalty to Dancing With the Stars ‘cause I was a swing for them,” Sosa said. “I said no to the audition because I was already swinging, and I just knew my heart was in Dancing With the Stars.”
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Swift, 35, performed her Eras Tour across the globe from March 2023 to December 2024, featuring choreography by Mandy Moore. (Moore, 49, also frequently creates dances for DWTS.)
“It was Mandy Moore, [and] she trained me growing up,” Sosa told Paytas, 37, on the podcast episode. “I had that close connection, and the material of it. Yeah, no, I could have crushed it.”
As Sosa remained focused on DWTS, he became a pro for the first time during last year’s season 33. He danced with Anna Delvey but got eliminated after the premiere. (Delvey, 34, was a controversial hire, appearing on the show after being released from prison in 2022. She was convicted on grand larceny charges.)
“I have no life, so I was teaching a convicted felon how to dance and being a gossiper with Brooks [Nader] and Gleb [Savchenko],” Sosa exclusively told Us Weekly in July of his debut season, coupled with the on-off showmance between his costars. “I live for it, especially with Rylee [Arnold] and I, we don’t have much to talk about, but when that stuff was going down, we were getting really happy about that.”
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He added, “Brooks and Gleb, at first, when they were starting to be a thing, I felt that [it was a] forced showmance. And I feel like a lot of people did too. I definitely felt that. But dare I say, they started falling in love. So that’s when things got a little tricky. And that’s when I started feeling for them. And then it went sideways. It went really sideways.”
Nader, 28, and Savchenko, 41, called it quits for good in April and have each moved on.
Now, Savchenko and Sosa are each eagerly anticipating season 34 of DWTS. (The pros do not know whether they will return until casting and partnerships are finalized.)
“Anna is rooting for me to have Julie Chrisley next season,” Ezra told Us, referring to the Chrisley Knows Best alum who was released from prison this summer after a presidential pardon over a fraud conviction. “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.’”
Dancing With the Stars premieres on ABC and Disney+ Tuesday, September 16, at 8 p.m. ET.
