Veronica Portillo (born November 27, 1977)[1] is an American reality television personality and the co-creator of the 2000s College Dropout T-shirt line.
[2] She was a student at UC Berkeley when she made her first appearance on MTV on Road Rules on its Semester at Sea season, Portillo gained notoriety for her conflicts and friendships with her fellow roadies as they traveled around the world as part of Semester at Sea.
She was part of The Bad Asses team, alongside her allies Rachel Robinson and Tina Barta, and rivals Beth Stolarczyk and Tonya Cooley.
Despite making it to the end and winning her first elimination round, her team lost to their opponents, The Good Guys.
Not experiencing her previous success on the show, Portillo was later eliminated in the sixth episode by KellyAnne Judd from The Real World: Sydney.
[3] Portillo competed on the 2017 miniseries The Challenge: Champs vs. Pros for the charity Planned Parenthood, for which she raised $1,000.
[12] In 2019, Portillo appeared on a special mini Challenge advertisement for Universal Orlando alongside other champions and hosted by Devyn Simone from The Real World: Brooklyn.
She would appear again on the fifth season, The Challenge All Stars: Rivals, where she was partnered with Katie due to the events of The Inferno.
Portillo appeared alongside Darrell in Ride or Dies, after joining the game late in the fourth episode.
[15] On XXX: Dirty 30, Aneesa Ferreira (The Real World: Chicago alumna) revealed that Portillo and Rachel Robinson (Road Rules: Campus Crawl alumna and co-creator of the College Dropout T-shirt line) dated for three years after Ferreira and Robinson broke up.