Trivia

Was extremely upset and offended by the joke Amy Schumer said during the Charlie Sheen roast regarding his friend Ryan Dunn, who had passed away only a few months prior. Steve-O later said on a podcast was the reason he was upset by this joke was because he agreed with it in a literal sense. He has also made clear he has no problem with Schumer from this joke.

The first thing on Jackass he was supposed to do was jump into a pile of elephant feces. But as the crew was following Steve-O to his house, Steve-O's car broke down in the middle of a pet store parking lot. There Steve-O did his famous "swallow goldfish and puke it up" stunt. The next day, people instantly knew who he was and he got fired at his flea market circus job.

Before he got his big break in Jackass (2000), he did many stunts in front of his friends at parties. One of the stunts involved him lighting his hair on fire and then doing a back flip. While doing this stunt something went wrong and he burnt all the skin on his face off. He had to wear a face mask for a month.

He was tattooed by a "holy man" in Thailand who had previously tattooed Angelina Jolie. The tattoo drawn by the holy man is located on his right shoulder blade.

Was never a clown for Ringling Brothers, but did graduate from Clown College in 1997.

Says the first concert he ever went to was Twisted Sister and the first album he ever owned was Michael 'Jackson's Thriller.'

Among his more dangerous and/or controversial stunts are: has lit his head on fire, swallowed live goldfish and attempted to regurgitate them alive, drank wine that had first passed between someone's buttocks, stapled his scrotum to his thigh, had a tattoo drawn on his body while sitting in a violently rocking jeep, administered alcohol directly into his veins with an IV drip, snorted wasabi up through his nose, pierced his cheek with a fish hook and played live bait in the ocean, let the cast throw darts in his buttocks and carved an upside down cross in his shoulder with a knife followed by rubbing ink into the wound.

His father holds a high-level executive position with the Nabisco Corp.

In 2005 he launched his own shoe company called Sneaux Shoes.

His mother, Donna, passed away on November 7, 2003, five years after suffering an aneurysm.

Worked as a circus clown on cruise ships and worked for the Hanneford Family Circus.

Graduate of the American School in London, England (a high school) in 1992 and attended the University of Miami, but dropped out in 1993. Graduated from Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Clown College in 1997

His father was American, with English, as well as Northern Irish and Scottish, ancestry, and his mother was Canadian, with English roots. Steve-O's paternal grandparents were Richard Gilchrist Glover, an English-born historian, and Constance (White), of Holyoke, Massachusetts. Steve-O's paternal great-grandfather, Terrot Reaveley Glover, was a prominent classical scholar and the son of a Baptist minister.

On July 18, 2006, he became a late contestant on the British reality show Celebrity Love Island (2005) broadcast on ITV from Fiji in an effort to boost ratings. Despite stating he had stopped drinking, he asked for beer while on the show, and on July 19, 2006, he abruptly left because he was not allowed the beer and chocolate that he requested.

He has his own YouTube channel.

Following the departure of Adam Carolla from Loveline (1996), Steve-O periodically guest co-hosted in his place and was being considered, among many others, as a possible replacement. Loveline producers eventually chose KROQ DJ Stryker to replace Carolla on the show.

Around the world on tour performing his stunts live (June 2003)