In 2003, Steve-O toured Europe with Bam Margera, a friend and co-star of Jackass. After several delays, in March 2003 Steve-O made a deal with Louisiana prosecutors placing him on supervised probation for one year, requiring him to make a charitable donation of $5,000 to a shelter for battered women and children and forbidding him from ever performing in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana again. On July 31, 2002, Steve-O was arrested on obscenity and assault charges for stapling his scrotum to his leg, and for being a principal to a second-degree battery, during a performance at a nightclub in Houma, Louisiana on July 11, 2002. He toured promoting the DVD doing stunts, which was filmed and released as Don't Try This at Home Volume 2: The Tour. In 2001, he released Don't Try This at Home on DVD, which contained material MTV censored. The installments Jackass: The Movie, Jackass Number Two, Jackass 3D, Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa (2013), and Jackass Forever all became box office hits.
MTV has subsequently released six movies based on the series: Jackass: The Movie (2002), Jackass Number Two (2006), direct-to-video release Jackass 2.5 (2007), Jackass 3D (2010), direct-to-video release Jackass 3.5 (2011), Jackass Forever (2022), and Jackass 4.5 (2022).
Once the connection was made Steve-O began to work on MTV's television series Jackass, which became an instant hit. While performing in the flea market circus, Steve-O began sending videos of himself to Big Brother magazine editor and future Jackass director Jeff Tremaine. He filmed his stunts, including his clown performances, throughout this period. After graduation, he was not selected to join the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus, but worked as a clown in a circus at the Fort Lauderdale Swap Shop flea market. He graduated from the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Clown College in 1997. He also attended the University of New Mexico from 1996 to 1997. He attended the University of Miami to study with the School of Communications, but dropped out after one year due to poor grades and acts of disobedience in school. His family moved from Brazil to Venezuela when he was two, where he learned fluent Spanish at age four, he moved to Darien, Connecticut at age six, he moved to Miami, Florida at nine years old, he moved back to England at age 12, he moved to Toronto, Ontario and at age 13, he moved back to England again, remaining there through all four years of high school at the American School in London until he graduated. When he was six months old, his family moved to Brazil due to his father's job as president of the South American division of Pepsi-Cola, and Steve-O stated in an interview with Graham Bensinger that his first words were in Portuguese. His maternal step-grandfather was voice-over announcer Wayne Howell. 2003), was Canadian, and his father, Richard Edward "Ted" Glover, is an American of English descent. His mother, Donna Gay Glover ( née Wauthier d. Stephen Gilchrist Glover was born in Wimbledon, London, on June 13, 1974.