Trivia / Maryse

• The Cast Show Off: Maryse is bilingual and would frequently speak French on TV. English is actually her second language, and she had to learn it in developmental.
• Contractual Purity: A marginal example. She was called up to TV just before WWE switched to PG, and any risque content was filtered out. She was still Stripperiffic and provided Fanservice - notably her French Maid Outfit at Halloween and rather shamelessly suggestive pin attempts. But besides that, her past history as a Playboy playmate was never referenced at all - and such a thing would have been mentioned repeatedly in the pre-PG days.
• Creator Backlash: A couple of years after leaving WWE, she expressed dissatisfaction with the Divas getting such little airtime on TV.
  "It’s hard to make a crowd relate to you when you can’t talk on the microphone, you have only a minute in the ring and you have 10 divas in the ring at the same time so you can’t build a character and you can’t make people relate. It’s impossible to get over. I just wish the girls were given more time to work because there is potential but there’s no time."
• Dye Hard: Her hair is naturally dark brown.
• Follow the Leader: Quite a lot of wrestling women started flipping their hair as part of an entrance long after she did it - Brooke Adams, Summer Rae, Silvie Silver, Katey Harvey.
• Promoted Fanboy: Was a big wrestling fan prior to joining the Diva Search.
• Romance on the Set: Is married to The Miz as of February 20, 2014.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Was a Face in OVW but asked to be a heel when she was called up to TV. She never played a face on TV at all.
  • A champion vs champion match was rumoured for WrestleMania 25, putting her against the Women's Champion Melina. After two weeks of build up it was changed to a 25-Diva battle royal - and the feud was blown off with a Lumberjill match on Raw.
  • Another feud was planned between her and Melina when she returned from injury. It was dropped after Melina herself got injured, and Maryse had become a valet by the time she returned.
  • Maryse was one of many former Divas offered contracts around the same time the Bella Twins returned in 2013. Others included Kelly Kelly and Beth Phoenix. Total Divas made a storyline out of this, with Maryse being unhappy that the twins got rehired before her.