Whoopi Goldberg Slams Con Artist Anna Sorokin's Casting On 'Dancing With The Stars'

"What the hell, man?" the talk show host said on "The View."

Whoopi Goldberg doesn’t quite understand why Anna Sorokin, the con artist who in 2019 was convicted of swindling hotels, banks and individuals, was cast as a contestant on the forthcoming season of ABC’s “Dancing With the Stars.”

During a Thursday segment on “The View” — which is also broadcast on the ABC network — Goldberg kicked off the conversation about Sorokin and the dance competition show, saying the casting choice made her think of “all the families who’ve had family members arrested by ICE [U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement].”

Sorokin, a German citizen who for years pretended to be a wealthy heiress named Anna Delvey, was released from U.S. prison in 2021. She was detained for overstaying her visa shortly afterward, and then spent more than a year in ICE custody. She has recently been under house arrest in New York while fighting her deportation case.

“This woman, they gave her permission to go do this,” Goldberg said of Sorokin’s participation on the dancing show.

Sorokin told multiple media outlets this week that ICE approved her request to take part in the reality program, which is filmed in the Los Angeles area.