Torres Wilson
Career Highlights

Donovan MacCormack grew up in Berwyn, IL, in a working class family. At an eraly age, he became a fan of pro wrestling, especially the pageantry he saw when he journeyed to nearby Chicago to see the action live. Donovan was a solid athlete in high school as well as a writer for the school paper. He was quite the social butterfly, but seemed more interested in gossip about his peers rather than forging true friendships.

Following his graduation, Donovan attended junior college locally on various scholarships, intending to move on to a university as a communications major. He trained a nearby wrestling school in his free time, using money he had saved for tuition but didn't need. Donovan began working small shows in the Chicago area regulary and even got an occasional dark match with larger promotions. While rubbing shoulders with superstars, Donovan began secretly taping locker room conversations. He sold a couple stories to tabloids, but was exposed to his fellow wrestler when a prankster opened Donovan's bag to pull a rib while he was having a match. One severe beating later, Donovan MacCormack was blacklisted from pro wrestling.

Undaunted, Donovan turned away from not only wrestling, but schhol as well Headed to Hollywood with dreams of becoming an actor, He used connection from the tabloids he sold stories to in order to get his foot in the door. He had little success as an actor, but his athleticism and ability to take punishment got him work as a stuntman. This career came to an end when history repeated itself. Donovan was discovered selling stories and leaking information to the tabloid about the stars of the films he worked on. Although this revelation was not accompanied by a beating, this was another career ended prematurely.

Donovan picked himself off the ground yet again. He still had connections and he used these when starting his gossip site, fifteenminutes.com. In order to protect himself and his sources, Donovan took the pen name Torres Wilson, one he stumbled across while looking at the header of his high school yearbook as he tried to come up with an alias. His site became popular not just for the news it broke, but for the venom Torres Wilson unleashed on his celebrity targets. News Corp, owners of ventures like Myspace and 20th Century Fox, became interested in buying fifteenminutes.com. Upon meeting Torres Wilson, they decided he had the personality to be on the air. At first Torres appeared on small bit on Fox News. Then he got a chance to be part of a new project on FX.

The Real Dirt was created to be a real-life counter part to the drama Dirt. As a method of cross-promotion, producers decided to add wrestling gossip siince FX also houses PRIME programming. Torres pitched the idea of him actually stepping back in the ring, which the producers loved. Calls were made to CP Cantrell and Torres Wilson was added to the PRIME roster. Now he was in the spotlight he craved since he was a child as well as with the ability to tear down the wrestlers that had rejected him years before. Whatever happens to Torres Wilson in PRIME, it will be news.