'Challenge' Two-Time Winner Tyler Duckworth Dies — SkimNews
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- Tyler Duckworth, two-time winner of MTV's "The Challenge," died Tuesday in North Dakota, prompting an outpouring of tributes from fellow reality TV contestants.
- Duckworth launched his reality TV career on "The Real World: Key West" in 2006 and later won "The Challenge: Rivals" in 2011 alongside Johnny "Bananas" Devenanzio.
- Duckworth also captured the "Cutthroat" season, famously eliminating Devenanzio in the "Back Up Off Me" backpack challenge before going toe-to-toe with CT for 40 minutes in the final.
- Johnny "Bananas" Devenanzio posted a video tribute on Instagram on Sunday, writing that Duckworth was "the brother I never had" and "you'll always be family."
- Derrick Kosinski, who competed on the show and co-hosts the "Challenge Mania" podcast, told People Magazine that Duckworth "doesn't get his flowers often enough" and was "a bright light."
- Tina Barta and Brad Fiorenza also shared remembrances, with Barta writing that their shared experience "became more than a show — it became family."
Why it matters: Duckworth's death removes a two-time champion whose 2011 elimination of Bananas remains one of the franchise's most iconic moments — a rivalry that Devenanzio himself memorialized as brotherhood, underscoring how these casts stay bound to one another long after the competition ends.
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