Evan Starkman

Evan Starkman (born December 18, 1984) is the Founder, CEO and President of The Bait Shoppe. He was named one of the top 500 people in events by BizBash. He is best known as a competitor on the MTV reality game shows Real World/Road Rules Challenge: Fresh Meat, The Duel, The Gauntlet III, The Duel 2, The Ruins, and The Challenge: Rivals. He won The Duel 2 and The Ruins. Unlike many of his competitors, he never appeared on Real World or Road Rules; he was discovered at an open casting call and appeared on Fresh Meat in 2006. He hosted the RW/RR Spring Break Challenge in March 2010 with Paula Meronek.

Starkman started a clothing line with friend and Challenge castmate, Kenny Santucci. The line is called Suck Yeah and debuted in 2009. He also began Branch Out Clothing before Suck Yeah, a clothing company that focuses on sending positive messages into the world - "...When you wear Branch Out apparel you are taking the first step to spreading a positive message. You are joining a movement to change the way people think, the way people feel and the way the world works," and sending most of the profits to charity. The company has featured projects that they promote and donate to regularly.

Starkman founded a marketing agency called The Bait Shoppe in 2010.

Starkman founded The Bait Shoppe in 2010, which he describes as an "everything agency". Its clients include European clothing retailer Primark.

Starkman appears on The Challenge: Rivals, which began airing in June 2011. In an attempt to send CT and Adam home in the 6th episode, Evan intentionally lost the challenge which automatically qualified him and his partner for the elimination round, where CT and Adam would be voted in to face off against them. Evan's plan was unsuccessful after CT and Adam went on to win The Jungle and send home Evan and Nehemiah in the process.

In October 2011, Starkman, along with fellow Challenge castmember Kenny Santucci, was named in a lawsuit filed by fellow Challenge castmember Tonya Cooley, in which Cooley claimed that she was raped with a toothbrush while passed out from heavy drinking, during filming of the Real World/Road Rules Challenge: The Ruins in Thailand in the spring of 2009. MTV and Bunim/Murray Productions were also named in the lawsuit. The case was settled in an out of court settlement on October 24, 2012. The details of the settlement have not been made public. None of them have appeared on any MTV competition series since.

The Duel was Starkman's second Challenge. He won 6 out of the 13 challenges he competed in, before being defeated by Chris Tamburello in the Ascender duel during the 13th episode. Starkman won four challenges in a row, from episodes 9-12.