Imagine if someone had unchecked access to your life, to your drawers, your private diary. Someone who could discover the literal and metaphorical secrets you keep hidden in your closet. Well, I was that someone.
I was paid $11 an hour to work as a maid in a luxury hotel – the perfect mirror of society where class, prejudice, responsibility, fame and value clash on a daily basis. I met billionaires desperate to stay anonymous, drug lords on vacation and infamous stars or statesmen deciding the fate of the world.
I know how hard they work to conceal the inherent comedy between the exterior image they project and the interior truth they keep hidden. Dirty is all about the comic consequences of taking ourselves too seriously. As each week the maids face a new challenge via a new guest, I will use satire to highlight these hypocrisies of modern life.
If after watching the show you tip the maids next time you go to a hotel, I will consider myself successful. I will have made them proud.