1. Steve-O's career is mostly centered on his shocking and pain-inducing 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.
Steve-O's mother, Donna Gay Glover, was Canadian, and his father, Richard Edward "Ted" Glover, is an American of English descent.
When he was six months old, his family moved to Brazil due to his father's job as president of the South American division of Pepsi-Cola, and Steve-O stated in an interview with Graham Bensinger that his first words were in Portuguese.
Steve-O's family moved from Brazil to Venezuela when he was two, where he learned fluent Spanish; at age four, he moved to Darien, Connecticut; at age six, he moved to Miami; at nine years old, he moved back to England; at age 12, he moved to Toronto; and at age 13, he moved back to England again, remaining there through all four years of high school at The American School in London until he graduated.
Steve-O later studied at the University of Miami School of Communication, where he became better known as Steve-O, but dropped out after one year due to poor grades and acts of disobedience in school.
Steve-O attended the University of New Mexico from 1996 to 1997.
Steve-O filmed his stunts, including clown performances, throughout this period.
Once the connection was made Steve-O began to work on MTV's television series Jackass, which became an instant hit.
Steve-O toured promoting the DVD doing stunts, which was filmed and released as Don't Try This at Home Volume 2: The Tour.
On July 31,2002, Steve-O was arrested 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 in Houma, Louisiana on July 11,2002.
In 2003, Steve-O toured Europe with Bam Margera, a friend and co-star of Jackass.
On May 22,2003, Steve-O was arrested and jailed while in Sweden due to footage of him swallowing a condom containing cannabis to get it past authorities while flying on a plane.
Steve-O reached a deal with the Swedish prosecutors and was released on May 27,2003, after paying a fine of 45,000 kronor.
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.
Television commercials promoting the shoe company included such acts as Steve-O jumping into garbage, getting his foot bitten by an alligator and drinking rotten milk.
Steve-O urinated on the floor and performed a stunt called "Unwrapping the Mummy" all in front of a live studio audience.
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.
Steve-O was later examined by heart specialists who concluded he was in good health.
In 2007, Steve-O starred in his own television show called Dr Steve-O on the USA Network.
On February 23,2008, Steve-O joined the rest of the Jackass crew for the Jackass MTV 24 Hour Takeover, which promoted JackassWorld.
Steve-O participated in several stunts, and even debuted his rap music video which was executive produced by recording artist D-Jukes, leading to Mike Judge bringing back the duo of Beavis and Butt-Head for the first time in years to criticize it.
Steve-O was placed on a 72-hour psychiatric hold which was later lengthened to 14 days due to an alleged suicide attempt.
Steve-O later stated that his drug use got so bad that he hallucinated an intervention with his friends, humorously stating that he knew he needed help once his hallucinations started urging him to quit drugs.
On June 4,2008, Steve-O pleaded guilty to felony possession of cocaine.
Steve-O avoided jail with the successful completion of a treatment program.
In March 2009, Steve-O was on the eighth season of Dancing with the Stars, paired with Lacey Schwimmer.
Steve-O was eventually eliminated in the sixth week of the competition.
Steve-O later told Comedy Digital Radio station Barry that he has never seen the MTV documentary.
Steve-O was part of Jackass 3D, the third installment of the Jackass series, released in October 2010.
In late May 2010, Knoxville has stated that Steve-O's sobriety is at its best and "There is no beer on set this time around even if some of us wish there was".
Everyone has had different injuries throughout which is a good sign and Steve-O is probably getting the best footage out of everybody.
Steve-O wants to prove to everyone he can do these stunts sober.
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".
Steve-O appeared in Jackass 3.5, which was released in April 2011.
On March 27,2011, Steve-O was arrested at Calgary International Airport on outstanding charges.
Steve-O was accused of assault with a weapon after an altercation with an audience member during a 2003 performance.
On September 13,2011, during a taping of the Comedy Central Roast of Charlie Sheen, Steve-O joked, "The last time this many nobodies were at a roast, at least Great White was playing".
Steve-O has since apologized for the comment and requested that it be removed from the broadcast of the roast.
Later, at the end of the roast, Steve-O made another attempt and this time connected, resulting in Steve-O getting a broken nose.
Steve-O claimed to have been sober and clean for three and a half years.
Steve-O was shown to be visibly upset by Amy Schumer's joke about Ryan Dunn's passing, but later stated he was not offended by the joke.
Steve-O 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.
In 2014, Steve-O narrated a short video titled "What Came Before, featuring Steve-O: The Truth About Meat and Modern Farms", which was about some of the individual animals rescued by Farm Sanctuary.
Steve-O reveals the life of the less fortunate animals that are born into intensive farming in the US.
In December 2014, Steve-O was announced as one of the competitors in the second series of the British TV show The Jump.
Steve-O later admitted that the stunt was poorly thought out as he was nowhere near a SeaWorld.
On March 9,2018, Steve-O marked 10 years of sobriety.
Steve-O presented stories, stunts and previously unseen footage to the audience.
Steve-O starred in a supporting role in the film Guest House, released on September 4,2020.
On December 15,2020, it was publicly announced that Johnny Knoxville and Steve-O were hospitalized due to on-set injuries.
Steve-O broke his collarbone, but that bit was cut out of the movie.
Steve-O served as a co-producer on Jackass Forever, and Jackass 4.5.
In 2021, Steve-O started going on tour throughout the United States.
Steve-O occasionally brought other Jackass members as guests for his live shows.
Steve-O started going to Australia and New Zealand in February 2023, and to the United Kingdom in June and July 2023.
Steve-O was engaged to stylist Lux Wright, to whom he proposed in 2018.
Steve-O is known for his distinctive gravelly voice, which he initially attributed to his drug use and various stunts he's done over the years.
Steve-O is known to have struggled with alcoholism and drug addiction.
Steve-O spoke about his family life on the September 2,2020, episode 261 of the podcast TigerBelly with Bobby Lee and Khalyla Kuhn.
Steve-O reveals that his mother suffered an aneurysm on October 10,1998, which was before his rise to fame.
Steve-O stated that she suffered major cognitive and physical disability as a result of the aneurysm, and died in 2003.
Up to that point, Steve-O had not yet seen the success that the Jackass series would bring, and was a contrast to the corporate leadership career his father followed.
In 2010, it was reported that Steve-O had become a vegan for both health and compassionate reasons.
Steve-O stated that "being vegan, I can tell you, has benefited every single area of my life".
In June 2011, Steve-O released an autobiography entitled Professional Idiot: A Memoir, co-written with David Peisner.
Steve-O stated that he follows only a strict vegan diet and is one of the many celebrities that got involved in the NOH8 project.
In December 2018, Steve-O revealed that he was no longer a vegan as he consumes fish and is a pescatarian.
In 2019, Steve-O spoke out against "militant" vegans, stating they do more harm than good.