Yesterday, I answered my phone to hear Frank the Entertainer shouting over a din of commotion that I immediately recognized as a stream of ranting from his mother, Susan. “Can we please set up an interview? My mom is really upset over Dana’s interview,” he asked, and so, what probably should have happened a while ago finally did: I spoke with Susan Maresca about her son’s show and she was just as outspoken and hilarious as she is on screen. Below, Susan responds to Dana’s claims about the other girls and Frank. She has choice words for Dana’s infamous mother Donna, too (sample quote: “Her mother looks like she could use a good bath. And a good hair-washing. She was a horror.”) Grab your popcorn, ’cause this means war!
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“I’m ovulating right now, probably,” Dana tells us in the most consistently entertaining interview we’ve conducted in ages. Below, A Basement Affair‘s pot-stirrer talks about strategy (she claims she was the one who wrote Annie’s infamous rap), violent tendencies, her rivalry with Melody, her mother’s influence on her (it is Edie Beale-esque, to say the least) and, of course, her “flawless vagina.”
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A Basement Affair‘s Melody was known for being “the nice one” (she got sent home for “being too perfect,” even!), but that doesn’t mean she can’t throw shade with the best of them. “She looks worn, and I think she’s had a lot more life experiences than I have, even though I’m older,” she says about her on-air nemesis Dana’s ageist insults. More on those and everything else below…
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Below, Melissa, the most recently eliminated contestant on A Basement Affair, talks about her emotional departure, being known as “The Crusher,” and why her loyalty to Dana was more loyalty to her own well-being than an actual alliance.
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In this episode, Frank asks Kerry to pull his finger.
That right there is greatness in a nutshell.
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Initially, the prospect of speaking to Annie about her time on A Basement Affair was daunting because she’s said so much already. Her two blogs for BUST have explored her feminist interest in the reality TV genre, as well as her complete subversion of the concept of “being there for the right reasons,” as she openly discusses going on the show as a performance piece. (That, in turn, was subverted when she fond herself unable to give the intended performance: “What I believed would be contradictory to the reality television model would be for me to be my awkward, shy, cynical and bashful self—the person production never would have cast,” she writes.)
Being the true VH1 original that she is, it turns out that there was plenty more to discuss with Annie. Below, she talks more about her performance, the elusive ideas of persona and reality, her refusal to treat people like pawns and she also reveals that rap that got her in so much trouble.
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We finally caught up with the costume-wearing, smiling-dog-owning Renee, who was eliminated on last week’s episode of A Basement Affair. Below, she talks about being targeted by the other girls, her competitive spirit, her suggested costume fetish and why it’s important to maintain a sense of humor about yourself (especially if you’re on VH1).
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