Known around the world as a man who would try just about anything to get a good laugh out of people, Steve-O has just dropped out of his latest stunt.
The Jackass and Wildboyz star was just hours away from going under the knife to get temporary breast implants for a hidden camera sketch he had been planning for his upcoming The Super Dummy Tour, according to Variety.
The whole idea was for Steve-O (born Stephen Gilchrist Glover), 50, to make himself look like a woman and then trick groups of men on the street.
‘I got within 10 hours of being in surgery for that,’ said the man who once was hooked in the mouth and used as shark bait in the Gulf Of Mexico. ‘The surgery was supposed to happen at eight in the morning.’
It turns out, the anesthesiologist got cold feet when he learned this was for a stunt and then backed out the night before.
Steve-O, 50, has decided to scrap his plan to get breast implants and then try to trick people into thinking he’s a woman after talking with a transgendered person; seen in 2023
He added, ‘That kind of set off a chain reaction where the doctor didn’t want to be associated with it anymore, and they were having trouble finding another surgery center to to make it happen.’
At that point the man of comedy was still focused on moving forward with the stunt until the following day when he met up with a transgendered person at the grocery store.
While shopping he shared his grand scheme to get breast implants to see if it was something the clerk was comfortable with him doing.
One of his ideas was for Steve-O to have the implants, shave his body hair, and then remove his tattoos so that he could attend a motorcycle rally and flirt with men, only to take off his helmet and reveal he’s actually a guy.
‘I knew what my motivation was, I knew what my intention was, and it wasn’t to be hurtful to anybody,’ Steve-O said. ‘I was just trying to get laughs.’
While a number of trans people came up to him in a show of support for the stunt, the stunt actor and TV personality admitted the reaction ‘would’ve been a mixed bag.’
The clerk in the grocery store was of the opinion that Steve-O was deliberately trying to trick people into thinking that he was a woman and then fooling them ‘kind of ‘celebrates the idea of hate towards [trans people] — that was a [bad] thing.’
That clerk went on to paint the picture of a scenario trans people face when using a bathroom at the place of work, and ‘that there is like maybe 28 states in the country that would arrest them for having an ID that said female on it. That there were politicians making concerted efforts to lock them up in internment camps. It was really pretty heartbreaking, the level of oppression that was described.’
One of his ideas was for Steve-O to have the implants, shave his body hair, and then remove his tattoos so that he could attend a motorcycle rally and flirt with men, only to take off his helmet and reveal he’s actually a guy
The funnyman revealed that he changed his mind after talking to a transperson about his stunt and how it could led to more hate toward the community
Steve-O has been out performing The Super Dummy Tour in theaters around the U.S. this fall
When hearing these kinds of stories Steve-O decided to scrap the stunt to get breast implants.
‘I thought about it in a way that I hadn’t before, where you know, wow, maybe it’s not all fun and games. Especially the pranks,’ he confessed.
Over the years the London England native, who also grew up in Canada and the U.S., his put his stunt antics on display performing with the series Jackass (2000-2001), and it’s related films Jackass: The Movie (2002), Jackass Number Two (2006), Jackass 3D (2010), Jackass Forever (2023), as well as its spin-off series Wildboyz (2003-2006) and Dr. Steve-O (2007).
Steve-O is engaged to stylist Lux Wright, who he proposed to in 2018.
The comedian and stunt man has been out performing The Super Dummy Tour in theaters around the U.S. this fall.
