Dick Donato
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| Born |
Richard Louis Donato June 24, 1963 Los Angeles, CA |
| Residence | Orlando, FL |
| Other names | Evel Dick |
| Citizenship | American, Irish |
Richard Louis "Dick" Donato (born June 24, 1963) is a bar manager from Los Angeles, California. He was the winner of the reality game show Big Brother 8. He and his daughter, Daniele Donato, are the only family member pair to win the American Big Brother program's top two prizes in the same competition. Dick holds the record as the show's oldest winner (age 44 at the time), and Daniele is the youngest person (having turned 21 during the competition) ever to win one of the American program's top two prizes. Dick returned for Season 13 of Big Brother as a team with his daughter Daniele, but departed the show citing "personal reasons" during the first week. In 2014, Donato announced that the reason he departed the show was due to a positive HIV diagnosis.
Donato was a stand-in for Keith Richards in the motion picture Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. Because of Donato's claims to have met, known, or even dated various celebrities, he has been accused of lying just to drop names. However, Dizzy Reed of the rock band Guns N' Roses says that Donato is not a name dropper, that people drop his name. The nickname "Evel Dick" originated with an email address Donato once made up. Donato is the father of Vincent and Daniele Donato.
Donato said he planned to use a portion of the $500,000 to pay for his daughter's college education. Although directly splitting prize winnings was banned by contest rules, he could legally pay for his daughter's education and buy presents. On Wednesday, March 19, 2008 episode of Big Brother 9, Donato revealed that he had taken Daniele Donato to Europe and bought her a red car with his prize money.
Donato was nominated for and won the Golden Realitini for Favorite Reality Performer in the Fox Reality Really Awards for 2007 against Len Goodman, New York, Sanjaya Malakar, Ant (comedian), and Christopher Knight & Adrianne Curry. He was also nominated for Best Winner, Favorite Villain (which he also won), Favorite Potty Mouth, and Best Fight for his confrontation with Jen Johnson.Fox Reality Channel recorded the ceremony on October 2, 2007, and aired it on October 13.
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