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For other people with similar-sounding names, see Steve O.
Steve-O
Steve-O during 2003 interview
Born (1974-06-13) June 13, 1974 (age 50)
Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom
OccupationStuntman

Stephen "Steve-O" Gilchrist Glover (b. June 13, 1974) is an American stunt performer and television personality. He is best known as one of the performers on the TV series Jackass and Wildboyz.

Early life

Steve-O was born in Wimbledon, London, England[1] to an American father and a Canadian mother. His family was based in England for many years due to his father's business interests. Steve-O graduated from The American School in London in 1992 before moving to the United States.

He attended the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida, but dropped out after one year due to poor grades and lack of interest in school. He then attended and graduated from the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Clown College.[2] After graduation he was not selected to join the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus, but worked as a clown in a circus at the Fort Lauderdale Swap Shop flea market. He filmed his stunts, including his clown performances, throughout this period.

Like fellow Jackass star Bam Margera, Steve-O is also an avid Heavy metal fan. He has a tattoo of an inverted Christian cross on his left shoulder.

Jackass and tours (2000-2003)

While performing in the flea market circus, Steve-O began sending videos of himself to Big Brother Magazine editor and future Jackass director Jeff Tremaine. Tremaine recruited Steve-O for MTV's television series Jackass, which became an instant hit.[3] From this popularity, MTV decided to release three movies based on the series: Jackass: The Movie (2002), Jackass Number Two (2006) and direct-home release Jackass 2.5 (2007). Both Jackass: The Movie and Jackass Number Two became box office hits. In 2001, he released Don't Try This at Home on DVD, which contained material MTV censored.[4] It went on to sell 140,000 copies.[5] He toured promoting the DVD doing stunts, which was filmed and released as Don't Try This at Home Volume 2: The Tour[6] The tour gained national attention after Steve-O was arrested on July 31, 2002 in Los Angeles on obscenity and assault charges for stapling his scrotum to his leg, and for being a principal to a second-degree battery, during a performance at a nightclub a nightclub in Houma, Louisiana on July 11, 2002.[7][8][9] After several delays, in March 2003 Steve-O made a deal with Louisiana prosecutors placing him on supervised probation for one year, requiring him to make a charitable donation of $5,000 to a shelter for battered women and children and forbidding him from ever performing in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana again.[10]

In 2003, Steve-O toured Europe with Bam Margera. On May 22, 2003 Steve-O was arrested and jailed while in Sweden due to a comment he made during an interview about smuggling drugs into the country, remarking that he swallowed a condom containing cannabis to get it past the authorities. Steve-O reached a plea bargain with the Swedish prosecutors and was released on May 27, 2003 after paying a 45,000 Kronor (about $6,700 dollars) fine. As part of the plea bargain Steve-O admitted to possessing one ecstasy tablet and five grams of marijuana, although he claimed he had no knowledge of where the ecstasy came from.[11] The Swedish arrest was included in the third installment of the DVD series titled Steve-O: Out on Bail.[12]

Two months later on July 19, 2003, Steve-O was arrested on charges of disorderly conduct for urinating on potato chips in public during a Lollapalooza tour concert in Burgettstown, Pennsylvania. Steve-O claimed he was kicked off the tour by Lollapalooza producers because of the incident.[13] Steve-O was again seen urinating in public at the March 5, 2006 Key Club Party for the Oscars, urinating on the red carpet outside the club and then stripping off to his "birthday suit."[14]

After Jackass (2004-2007)

After the Jackass show ended, he co-starred with Chris Pontius on MTV's Wildboyz, which lasted several seasons until 2006. The two performed stunts and acts with animals, often putting themselves in situations for which they are not trained.

In mid 2005, Steve-O launched his own shoe company called Sneaux Shoes.[15] Television commercials promoting the shoe company include such acts as Steve-O jumping into garbage, getting his foot bitten by an alligator and drinking rotten milk. His slogan is "They're darn good shoes."

On March 27, 2006, Jackass co-stars Steve-O and Chris Pontius visited The Dean Blundell Show, a morning show on Toronto radio station CFNY (102.1 The Edge), to promote their "Don't Try This At Home" tour. Steve-O urinated on the floor and performed a stunt called "Unwrapping the Mummy" all in front of a live studio audience. Hosts Dean Blundell, Jason Barr, and Todd Shapiro were suspended for the week following the appearance, after many complaints.[16]

On July 18, 2006, Steve-O became a late contestant on the British reality show Love Island broadcast on ITV from Fiji in an effort to boost ratings. Despite stating he has stopped drinking he asked for beer while on the show, on July 19, 2006 he abruptly left Love Island because he was not allowed the beer and chocolate which he requested.[17]

In November 2006, he went on a drug binge after being misdiagnosed with cardiomyopathy, a serious heart condition.[18] He was later examined by heart specialists who concluded he was in good health.[18]

In 2007, Steve-O starred in his own television show called Dr. Steve-O on the USA Network. In the show, he helped make show guests cool and "de-wussify" them. That same year he appeared in Jackass 2.5, which mainly consisted of material that didn't appear in the second Jackass movie. Additionally, he appeared with some Jackass alumni in National Lampoon's TV: The Movie.

On February 5, 2008, Steve-O appeared on The Howard Stern Show with Howard Stern, Robin Quivers and Artie Lange on Sirius Satellite radio to promote his upcoming rap album Hard As a Rock. Another mix-CD released by Steve-O is called The Dumbest Asshole In Hip Hop.[19]

Psychiatric problems and rehab (2008)

On February 23, 2008 Steve-O joined the rest of the Jackass crew for the Jackass MTV 24 Hour Takeover, which promoted JackassWorld.com. During the live broadcast Steve-O was kicked out of MTV studios on the request of executives for his behavior and intoxication.[20] Eventually, he was allowed back in.

On March 9, 2008, Steve-O's friends, including co-star Johnny Knoxville, physically removed him from his house and forced him to check into Thalians Mental Health Center due to ongoing drug abuse problems.[21] Steve-O was placed on a 72 hour psychiatric hold which was later lengthened to 14 days due to an alleged suicide attempt.[21] In a mass e-mail addressed to his friends, Steve-O expressed that he previously had thought that his drug abuse and bipolarity as a "good thing," but that he now realizes that his drug abuse was hurting those he loved most.[22]

On June 4, 2008, Steve-O pleaded guilty to felony possession of cocaine. He avoided jail by the successful completion of his treatment program.[23] In July, after 115 days of sobriety, Steve-O announced he was "back in the loony bin".[24] He returned to the mental institution because: "I've had horrible mood swings and severe depression. My brain is fucked up from using so much cocaine, ketamine, PCP, nitrous oxide, and all sorts of other drugs."[25]

Post-rehab (2009)

On May 3, 2009, MTV premiered a documentary titled Steve-O: Demise and Rise about how his life was affected by the use of drugs and alcohol.[20] The show featured home-made video footage of Steve using drugs and vandalizing his apartment. In an August 2009 interview with Johnny Knoxville for The Times-Picayune, Knoxville on the topic of Steve-o's recovery and rehabilitation said "He's taking to sobriety like he took to drugs and alcohol, I'm very proud of him. I think we'll see him doing some stuff here really soon. As a matter of fact, I know we are."[26] And later stated "Something's coming. We're pretty excited". Later, he added: "I think it'll be a big year next year, but I don't want to talk about it yet."[26]

Steve-O was on the 8th 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. The judges based their scores on his performance at the dress rehearsal.[27] He was eventually eliminated in the sixth week of the competition.

TV, film, and releases

TV

Movies

DVDs

Music

  • Hard as a Rock
  • The Dumbest Asshole In Hip Hop (April 24, 2008, West Coast Madness Records)

References

  1. ^ http://www.sunshinecoastdaily.com.au/story/2008/03/05/steve-o-trouble-law-again/
  2. ^ "Steve-O: Jackass in the Flesh, and Blood". Washington Post. December 31, 2002. Retrieved 2009-10-15.
  3. ^ "Not Such a Dumb Stunt After All;". Los Angeles Times. Mar 18, 2001. Retrieved 2009-10-15.
  4. ^ "Steve-O takes great pains". The Gazette. Dec 19, 2002. Retrieved 2009-10-15.
  5. ^ "Drunken Jackass is often too much". The Record . Mar 25, 2004. Retrieved 2009-10-15.
  6. ^ "Jackass-inspired 'extreme standup' show brings excess to Lupo's". Providence Journal. Dec 5, 2002. Retrieved 2009-10-15.
  7. ^ "Steve-O Faces Obscenity Charges". MTV. Aug 1 2002. Retrieved 2009-10-15. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  8. ^ "For The Record: Quick News On". MTV. Sep 16 2002. Retrieved 2009-10-15. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  9. ^ "For The Record: Quick News On". MTV. Dec 16 2002. Retrieved 2009-10-15. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  10. ^ "Steve-O Gets Probation For Stapling". MTV. March 24 2003. Retrieved 2009-10-15. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  11. ^ "'Jackass' star arrested in Sweden". USA Today. May 27, 2003. Retrieved 2009-10-15.
  12. ^ "Pain to Entertain". News & Record. Jun 26, 2003. Retrieved 2009-10-15.
  13. ^ Steve-O Arrested Again - News Story | Music, Celebrity, Artist News | MTV News.
  14. ^ Who Peed On The Red Carpet? - Sky Showbiz.
  15. ^ http://sneauxshoes.com/
  16. ^ Mihsin, Andre (2004-03-29). "Steve-O Gets T.O. Shock Jock Kicked Off The Air". Chart. Retrieved 2009-09-11. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  17. ^ "Jackass star departs Love Island". BBC. July 19, 2006. Retrieved 2010-09-11. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  18. ^ a b "They said I was dying so I got off my nut on drugs". Europe Intelligence Wire. November 3, 2006. Retrieved 2009-10-21.
  19. ^ http://www.steveomixtape.com
  20. ^ a b "Steve-O: Demise and Rise". MTV. 2009. Retrieved 2009-10-15.
  21. ^ a b "'Jackass' Star Steve-O Hospitalized". Baltimore Sun. March 13, 2008. Retrieved 2009-10-15.
  22. ^ "Steve-O Tells Friends: I'm Paying for My Self-Destructive Behavior". People. March 14, 2008. Retrieved 2009-10-15.
  23. ^ "Steve-O pleads guilty to felony cocaine charge but avoids jail time". Reality TV World. Jun 4, 2008. Retrieved 2009-10-15.
  24. ^ "Jackass 'back in loony bin'". Brisbane Times. July 8, 2008. Retrieved 2009-10-15.
  25. ^ "Steve-O's hospital return". ITV. July 8, 2008. Retrieved 2009-10-15.
  26. ^ a b Scott, Mike (August 04, 2009). "Johnny Knoxville: 'Jackass' star Steve-O almost ready to dive back into his work". The Times-Picayune. Retrieved 2009-09-01. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  27. ^ Steve-O Sits Out of DWTS After Back Injury US Magazine, March 16, 2009.


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