He was a stand-in for Keith Richards in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End. Donato won $500,000 on Big Brother. He won the Golden Realitini Award for Favorite Reality Performer at the Fox Reality Really Awards in 2007. He was named on TV Guide’s Evil Reality TV Villains in 2009. He hosts an online Big Brother recap show Dick at Night for RTVZone.com. Donato appeared in the 2010 film GPS.