Steve O

Stephen Gilchrist Glover, or ostentatiously known as Steve-O is a British comedian, stunt performer, actor, television personality, and an author. Steve-O is well known for his pranks, and stunts performed in the reality television series, “Jackass” and “Wildboyz”. Born to parents, Richard Glover, and Donna Gay, in London where he studied at the American School in London. Steve-O’s step-grandfather was the voice-artist and announcer, Wayne Howell.

Known for his eccentricity, Steve-O pulled off impromptu stunts, whenever he spotted opportunities. Being a die-hard fan of the Rock band “Motley Crue”, Steve-O contacted every hotel in the area, posing as an agent when the band was on a tour of his hometown. Motley Crue’s manager, Doc McGhee took notice of Steve’s efforts and invited him to meet Tommy Lee Thomas Lee Bass aka Tommy Lee is an American music >> Read More... and others, backstage.

Steve-O pursued graduation from the “Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Clown College”, and later on, found work at the flea market of the Fort Lauderdale Sweat Shop as a clown. After filming the stunts that he performed, Steve-O sent them to the editor, Jeff Tremaine of the magazine, “ Big Brother Click to look into! >> Read More... ”. Tremaine then cast Steve-O in the reality television series “Jackass.” In the following years, MTV also released “Jackass: The Movie”, followed by Jackass Number Two, and succeeded by Jackass 3D Click to look into! >> Read More... .

In the year 2001, Steve-O released an uncensored DVD titled “Don’t Try This at Home”, which contained a compilation of many of his stunts which were not formerly allowed a telecast by the censorship at the MTV productions. The years 2002 and 2003 saw Steve-O arrested on obscenity, drug charges, and assault charges in places like Louisiana, Pennsylvania and Sweden. In 2003, Steve-O also featured alongside Chris Pontius, in the spin-off to Jackass, titled “Wildboyz”. In 2005, Steve-O launched his footwear brand “Sneaux Shoes”.

In the following year, Steve along with Chris Pontius made an appearance on “The Dean Blundell Show”, for the promotion of their tour video “Don’t Try This At Home”. Steve-O also featured in an episode of the reality show titled “Love Island”. In 2006, Steve-O was diagnosed with cardiomyopathy, following which he had a period of drug abuse, only to know that it was a misdiagnosis. Steve-O released his television show, “Dr. Steve-O” in 2007, produced by the USA Network. The year 2007 also saw Steve-O in “Jackass 2.5” and in “National Lampoon’s TV: The movie.” 2008 saw Steve-O making an appearance on “The Howard Stern Show” and “Jackass MTV 24 Hour Takeover”.

In the following year, Steve-O was a participant on “Dancing with the Stars”, where he was Lacey Schwimmer’s partner. 2009 also saw MTV release “Steve-O: Demise and Rise”, based on Steve’s battle with alcohol and drug-abuse. 2011 saw the Steve-O in “Jackass 3.5” and in the celebrity roast of ' Charlie Sheen Carlos Irwin Estévez, more prominently known as Ch >> Read More... ' by the “Comedy Central Roast”. In the same year, Steve-O released “Professional Idiot: A Memoir”, his autobiography. Steve-O has also featured as a guest on various shows such as “ Barely Lethal Click to look into! >> Read More... ”, “America’s Next Top Model”, “ Nitro Circus Click to look into! >> Read More... ”, “Minute to Win It”, “ Killer Karaoke Almost all of us remember and miss the groups "Par >> Read More... ”, “Celebrity Juice”, and “The Jump”.

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Steve-O is the stage name of Steven Gilchrist Glover, a Stuntman and TV personality. He is best known for being a central member of the MTV series “Jackass”. He has also released DVD’s and did stand-up comedy work whilst living a life mired in controversy and addiction.

His career began with him working at a flea market as a clown. Whilst working this job, he managed to film himself doing stunts. Eventually, he sent many of these videos to a person named ‘Jeff Tremaine’. At the time, Tremaine was the editor of a magazine titled Big Brother Weekly. Later, he would be the director of the stunt show Jackass that made Steve-O a household name. The show was a massive hit, featuring certain cast members performing reckless and often dangerous stunts that led to a self-injury. The show featured a large number of disclaimers advising people not to perform these stunts, but many ended up trying anyway, resulting in either injuries or death.

Eventually, the show was canceled after three seasons. However, Steve-O remained tied to the Jackass brand thanks to the release of movies that were directly related to the series, all which featured him. These movies were titled “Jackass: The Movie”, “Jackass Number Two”, “Jackass 2.5”, “Jackass 3D” and “Jackass 3.5”. Most of these movies did quite well commercially. He even starred in the spin-off series titled “The Wildboyz”, which actually ended up producing more episodes than the series it was based on. Following the end of the spin-off, Steve-O has appeared in several reality shows as well as talk shows, often to promote new ventures such as his DVD releases.

Aside from his propensity for partaking in dangerous stunts, he is known for having an extremely colorful personality. The stuntman has a number of tattoos, including one that covers half his back. The tattoo is a portrait of himself, that includes the self-praising phrase “Yeah dude, I rock!”

Steve-O has struggled with drug and alcohol problems, at one point actually coming close to ending his own life before being checked into rehab. Aside from suffering addictions to a plethora of drugs, he was plagued with issues of depression and even bipolar disorder. After he managed to clean his act up, he did a few stand-up comedy tours and even released his own autobiography titled Professional Idiot: A Memoir.

Since then, he has partaken in a number of ventures including launching his own YouTube channels and appearing on shows both on the internet and TV.