# Anika Rashaun Dies: ‘Real World’, ‘The Challenge’ Alum Was 34

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/anika-rashaun-dies-real-world-the-challenge-alum-was-34/
- Published: 2026-10-24T13:08:57+00:00
- Updated: 2026-10-24T14:26:23+00:00
- Original publisher: Deadline
- Original article: https://deadline.com/2026/10/anika-rashaun-dead-1237172312/
- Topics: Geopolitics, Health, Medicine, Politics

## Key points

- Anika Rashaun died aged 34 from breast cancer.
- She appeared on two MTV reality shows.
- She later worked as a dating coach and matchmaker.

## Summary

Anika Rashaun, who appeared on MTV’s The Real World and The Challenge before building a career in dating advice and matchmaking, has died aged 34. Friends announced that she died on 1 October from breast cancer; her death has prompted tributes from people who knew her through television and her wider community.

Rashaun appeared on The Real World: Bad Blood in 2016, where she was paired with her ex-boyfriend Will, and competed on The Challenge: Invasion of the Champions the following year, leaving in the third episode. A New York City native, she later moved to Los Angeles and developed a lifestyle brand as a dating coach and podcast host, and studied to become a licensed marriage and family therapist. A friend said Rashaun had been diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer the previous summer; she married Kyle Rehn on Valentine’s Day this year.

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