Steve-O Canceled Plan to Get Breast Implants for a Comedy Prank After Talking to a Transgender Person He Met on Surgery Day: ‘It’s Not All Fun and Games’
variety.comZack Sharf Digital News Director “Jackass” alum Steve-O revealed in a new interview with Consequence that he scrapped a plan to temporarily get breast implants for hidden camera sketches that he was planning to film for his upcoming live tour, “The Super Dummy Tour.” The idea was for Steve-O 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,” Steve-O said. “The surgery was supposed to happen at eight in the morning.
And 10:00 PM the night before, I got a call that the anesthesiologist backed out of it, because he found out that it was me doing it as a stunt.
And 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.” The next day Steve-O was at a grocery store and the clerk checking him out happened to be transgender, so he revealed his grand plan to get breast implants to see if it was something the clerk was comfortable with or not.
One idea was for Steve-O to have the implants and then shave his body hair and 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.
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