Jackass’s Steve-O burst his ear drum after getting shot in the face with dog poo

Steve-O has done some stupid things in his time, but being shot in the face with dog poo? Yep, it’s up there.

The Jackass star had to receive medical treatment after a t-shirt cannon filled with faeces led to his ear drum bursting.

The 47-year-old shared on his YouTube channel that he came up with a seriously gross stunt for the upcoming movie Jackass 4, but it didn’t make the cut.

Steve-O said: ‘I bought a T-shirt cannon for Jackass 4. The idea was to fill it up with dog poop, and have someone get shot in the face with it. But the director Jeff Tremaine didn’t think the idea was really clever enough, so it didn’t happen.’

However, YouTuber SteveWillDoIt was keen to collaborate on a video with the MTV star, so Steve-O collected dried dog poo from the garden and put it in a blender with some water to achieve the ‘right consistency’.

Side note – never accept a smoothie at Steve-O’s place.

Steve-O admitted the stunt was stupid, even for him (Picture: Michael S. Schwartz/Getty Images)

The guys loaded the t-shirt cannon gun with the watered down poo, and SteveWillDoIt proceeded to blast Steve-O in the side of the face.

That would be a bad enough day for anybody, but unfortunately for Steve-O, the faeces got into his ear canal.

He said: ‘I didn’t put in any ear plugs or goggles… what was I thinking?

‘My ear canal is filled with dog s*** and it came with such force that I’ve done serious damage to the middle of my ear.’

After stopping for a haircut – because why wouldn’t you – Steve-O visited an urgent care centre to get his ear flushed out, and told the nurse he was ‘legitimately embarrassed about this one’.

However, the pain got even worse later on, and Steve-O agreed to go to the hospital, where a doctor told him: ‘You’ve got a hole in your ear drum. What you did was a stupid thing.’

The star had to have poo flushed from his ear canal (Picture: Instagram)

Steve-O shared an excerpt of the video to Twitter, and wrote: ‘Even for me, this was REALLY stupid. #BustedEardrum #DogPoop.’

One response read: ’S*** for brains’, with the star replying: ‘Exactly!’, while others noted that the pain must have been really bad for Steve-O to go to hospital.

Over the years, the star has carried out some increasingly ridiculous and dangerous stunts as part of Jackass, from holding a lit firework in his bum, to wearing a jellyfish as a hat, to being catapulted into the air in a full Porta-Potty.

But even he was freaked out by a recent stunt by another member of the Jackass team.

Ahead of the release of Jackass 4, the team took part in Shark Week, and newbie Sean ‘Poopies’ McInerney decided to literally ‘jump the shark’ on a wakeboard while surrounded by Caribbean reef sharks.

However, the stunt took a turn for the worse when Sean landed in the water and a shark took a bite out of his hand.

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The bite severed the tendons and two arteries in McInerney’s hand, and the injury was so bad that Steve-O couldn’t even look at him.

Every story about the Jackass crew just makes us more nervous for the movie.

Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O, Wee Man, Chris Pontius, Dave England, Ehren McGhehey and Preston Lacy are reuniting and are being joined by some new faces for the movie, which is set for release on October 22.

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