Steve-O Cancels Plan to Get Breast Implants for Comedy Sketch

“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. 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]. And I think some people would’ve been okay with it, and some people wouldn’t have. It would’ve been a mixed bag.”

The clerk fell in the latter category and said that “the part where I deliberately went out to trick people into thinking that I was a woman and then fooling them, and then kind of celebrating the idea of hate towards [trans people] — that was a [bad] thing.”

Additionally, the clerk “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. 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.”

That’s when Steve-O opted not to go through with his plan to get breast implants as “framed like that, I thought about it in a way that I hadn’t before, where you know, wow, maybe it’s not all fun and games. Especially the pranks.”

Steve-O originally announced in July his plan to get breast implants. The “Jackass” favorite will be performing “The Super Dummy Tour” in theaters around the U.S. this fall. Head over to Consequence’s website to read his interview in its entirety.