This Day, That Year – June 13

This day in history we feature Steve-O. An American entertainer best known for performance stunts on MTV’s Jackass was born on this day in 1974.

Trivia – Steve-O

Stephen Gilchrist Glover known professionally as Steve-O. His career is mostly centered on his performance stunts in the reality comedy television series Jackass and its related films Jackass: The Movie, Jackass Number Two, Jackass 3D, and Jackass Forever, as well as its spin-off series Wildboyz and Dr. Steve-O.

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In March 2009, Steve-O was on the eighth season of Dancing with the Stars, paired with Lacey Schwimmer. After the first week, he complained of pinched nerves and back spasms and did not compete in the second week after injuring his back further by falling on his microphone pack during dress rehearsal. Steve-O was part of Jackass 3D, the third installment of the Jackass series, released in October 2010.

The movie was in 3D and began production on January 25, 2010. When Jackass 3D was released in 2010, the movie broke box office records. In promoting the movie, he appeared on The Howard Stern Show, lighting himself on fire. In November 2010, Steve-O began touring the United States performing stand-up comedy on what he called “Steve-O’s Entirely Too Much Information Tour”. In early 2011, he announced a nine-month-long American comedy tour.

He appeared in Jackass 3.5, which was released in April 2011. It was announced on October 3, 2011, that Steve-O would be hosting truTV’s new reality game show Killer Karaoke, the American version of the British competition show Sing If You Can.

The show first aired at 9 p.m. EST on November 23, 2012. He told US Weekly in November 2012 that he credited his two rescue dogs, Walter and Bernie, with helping him to maintain nearly five years of sobriety. Despite joining in 2005, Steve-O did not regularly upload on his YouTube channel of the same name and other channels until 2013. His main channel SteveO has amassed over 6.05 million subscribers as of February 2022.

On March 19, 2020, Steve-O started his own podcast titled Steve-O’s Wild Ride! He hosts this podcast along with Scott Randolph and Paul Brisske. Gnarly is Steve-O’s second stand-up comedy special at the Gothic Theatre in Denver, Colorado. It was released on July 18, 2020, and is available to watch on Steve-O’s website. In August 2020, he appeared on the VENN Network with host Sasha Grey on her show Grey Area. Steve-O starred in a supporting role in the film Guest House, released on September 4, 2020. During the first two days of production for Jackass Forever (2022), both Steve-O and Johnny Knoxville were hospitalized.

On December 15, 2020, it was publicly announced that Johnny Knoxville and Steve-O were hospitalized due to on-set injuries. Steve-O also broke his collarbone, but that bit was cut out of the movie. He served as a co-producer on Jackass Forever, and Jackass 4.5 (2022). On July 11, 2021, during Shark Week, the Discovery Channel aired Jackass Shark Week. In 2021, Steve-O started going on tour throughout the United States.

This tour, titled The Bucket List Tour, features Steve-O telling stories and showing stunts that he wasn’t allowed to do for Jackass. He occasionally brings other Jackass members as guests for his live shows. He started going to Australia and New Zealand in February 2023. On April 12, 2022, Steve-O announced the title of his new book as A Hard Kick in the Nuts: What I’ve Learned from a Lifetime of Terrible Decisions, which was released on September 27, 2022.

Source – Wikipedia