Jackass’ Steve-O Cancels Breast Implant Procedure For Prank Series After Conversation With Transgender Cashier

Stephen Glover, the professional prankster and stunt performer who is better known as “Steve-O,” was planning to move forward with getting breast implants until a grocery store encounter with a transgender person changed his mind. 

The Jackass star, 50, revealed in an interview with Consequence of Sound that he was shopping for groceries and realized the cashier was transgender. 

“It struck me as a sign from the universe,” Glover said. “I didn’t have any dedicated meetings or conversations with trans people because I didn’t really feel like I had to.”

In noticing the cashier, the prankster said he “asked the transgender person if I could run something by them, and I had a conversation with this person that had a profound impact on me.”

In July, Steve-O had teased in a podcast that he had planned to get implants for hidden camera pranks on his upcoming Super Dummy Tour, in which he would trick groups of men on the street into thinking he was a woman. 

In initially wanting breast implants as part of a bit, the comedian had not consulted with any transgender advisers regarding the procedure. Glover thought that his good intentions would be enough to justify the decision. 

“I had done a bunch of workshop shows to test out material, and I had a number of trans people come to me after the shows to voice support for [the stunt],” he said. “And I think some people would’ve been OK with it, and some people wouldn’t have. It would’ve been a mixed bag.”

For the comedian’s bit, he had planned to ride around in a pink Vespa with Daisy Duke shorts and a bikini top. The prankster would wear a helmet so his identity could not be revealed. 

“And the plan I had was to film with hidden cameras as I rode up to big gangs of motorcycle riders, who would presumably be checking me out,” Glover explained. “And I would walk up to pull off my helmet and say, ‘Yeah, dude,’ and get this crazy reaction, which, predictably, would be contentious.”

After hearing the cashier’s perspective, Glover felt compelled to reconsider the stunt. 

“[They] described how they weren’t allowed to use the bathroom at their place of work, that there were like maybe 28 states in the country that would arrest them for having an ID that said female on it,” he said. “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.”

Glover claimed that how the cashier framed his perspective was enough for him to abandon his plan.

“Especially the pranks. Like, I would’ve considered it to be better footage if I was to be beaten up at the motorcycle rally,” he said. “And just having that mentality was very flawed because, ultimately, it would be an exercise in celebrating violence against trans people. At least, it would be interpreted that way by some, and when it was put to me that way, I thought, ‘Wow, maybe I missed the mark on that one.'”

Last year, Glover was arrested by police for jumping off of London Bridge.