Richard Louis Donato is a bar manager and podcaster from Los Angeles, California, whose nickname is
Evel Dick. 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, and Daniele is the youngest person 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.