Jun 13, 1974

Wimbledon, London, England

Steve graduated from Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Clown College in
1997. He says the program was more like boot camp than college. Out of 2000
applicants, only 33 were accepted and Steve-O was one of them. However, after
graduation, 10 were selected for the circus and this didn't include him. So he went
back home to Albuquerque, New Mexico to film himself doing dangerous and stupid
stunts for submission to skateboarding companies. Steve-O's relationship with Big
Brother Magazine b... ... (read more...) egan in 1997 when they ran a side-bar article about him catching
his face on fire when their Big Brother tour came through Albuquerque. In 1999 he
moved from New Mexico to Florida. For six months he worked as a performer on Royal
Carribean Cruise Lines and was then offered a job at the Hanneford Family Circus as
a clown. During this time he was featured in several more issues of Big Brother
Magazine and even filmed a part for the Big Brother video "Boob". This is when he
became
involved with Jackass. He says he did all his filming for the first season of
Jackass within three days.