This story appears in TheWrap's EmmyWrap Reality Issue.
With a second season of MTV's "Catfish: The TV Show" debuting Tuesday at 10/9c, Nev Schulman has become one of reality television's most interesting people. He has seen himself catapulted from indie documentary filmmaker to TV’s most well-known internet scam buster/matchmaker.
His reality career was created and then boosted by serendipitous story turns, beginning with the success of "Catfish," the 2010 doc in which Schulman’s brother Ariel and friend Henry Joost filmed his online romance with a woman who turned out to have created a fake identity.
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The MTV reality series of the same name, in which Shulman and Max Joseph (pictured) travel the country arranging in-person meetings between folks engaged in online-only romances, debuted last November to some buzz.