The Challenge: CT Tamburello's Net Worth & How He Makes His Money
CT Tamburello has worked long and hard to earn the respect that he now receives on The Challenge: Double Agents. As a 20-year MTV veteran, CT has a reputation that precedes him. Over the years, viewers have watched him get into drunken rages, fight, love, makeup, breakup, and take home large sums of money. Here's a look into CT's net worth and how he makes his money.
The Massachusetts native made his debut reality TV appearance on back in 2003 on MTV's The Real World: Paris. Back then, the fans met a good-looking blue-eyed college student who was known to party hard. Drunken fights were his thing, and hooking up with pretty women was his game. After The Real World, CT became a regular face on MTV competing shows, such as early versions of The Challenge including Rivals II, Invasion of the Champions, and both seasons of Champs vs. Stars. He has won or made it to the final in other seasons of The Challenge like War of the Worlds 2, The Inferno, The Gauntlet III, Battle of the Exes, and XXX: Dirty 30. His charisma, beast mentality, and athletic ability has granted him goat status on the show.
CT's $400,000 net worth comes in large part from all the money that he has won competing on The Challenge the last two decades, via Celebrity Net Worth. When competing on The Inferno, CT took home $11,000 from The Real World team bank account, as noted by Fandom. The following year, he returned for Inferno II and took home $10,000. After a few seasons of getting disqualified from challenges for not following rules or getting sent home for fighting, CT returned Battle of the Exes where he took home $52,000. His Rivals II earnings brought him home with an additional $63,000. His win on Invasion of the Champions earned him a $112,500 grand prize.
When CT returned for Dirty 30, CT took home $15,000 after coming in third place in the final. In 2017, when he returned for Champs vs. Stars, he won $55,000 for himself and the F.I.G.H.T. charity, then he returned a year later and won an additional $52,000. His finals win in War of The Worlds 2 earned him a $250,000 payout that brought his total earnings competing on MTV to well over $500,000. If you add in his 2018 wedding to his wife Lilianet Solares and his son CJ, it makes sense why his net worth is around the $400k mark. He won over a half a million dollars through competing on reality television and took his earnings and started a family.
Currently, CT is promoting a horror movie where he was as an actor and producer, Habitual. He worked on the movie with director Johnny Hickey, who happens to be his childhood friend. The MTV star is keeping himself busy and living a humble life when he's not competing on winning money on The Challenge.
Source: Celebrity Net Worth, Fandom