The TV show “Jackass” premiered on MTV in 2000 and has spawned an entire franchise.

Johnny Knoxville says Jackass 5 will be ‘the last one,’ teases ‘a f---ing train wreck’

The TV show "Jackass" premiered on MTV in 2000 and has spawned an entire franchise.

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Raechal Shewfelt

Raechal Shewfelt is a writer at **. She has been working at EW since 2024. Her work has previously appeared on Yahoo and in American *Journalism Review* and *The Shreveport Times*.

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Johnny Knoxville stars in 'Jackass: The Movie' in 2002. Credit:

After more than a quarter century of *Jackass*, Johnny Knoxville says he's retiring the brand.

Now 54, Knoxville explained that the upcoming *Jackass 5 *"will be the last one" in a *Rolling Stone* interview published Tuesday.

"This is the natural place to end," Knoxville said. "So it's going to be absolutely awful."

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When the writer wished him well, the actor and stunt performer responded, "You hope it doesn't go well at all! Should be a f---ing train wreck. That's what you should hope for. I think we designed it that way."

The *Jackass *series was widely popular when it debuted on MTV in 2000, before spawning several movies, both documentaries and scripted films.

'Jackass' star Johnny Knoxville in 2023.

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Knoxville, who's now the host of Fox's *Fear Factor: House of Fear*, confirmed in January that another movie was on the way, four years after *Jackass Forever*.

"Well a wang dang and hot damn doodle, we are starting the year off with a bang," he captioned images of the *Jackass* logo and himself. "We wanted to let you know that this summer *Jackass* is back!! We will see you in theaters June 26th."

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In his conversation with *RS*, Knoxville was asked directly about one of his frequent costars, Bam Margera, who was infamously fired from *Jackass Forever*. Margera alleged in a subsequent lawsuit that he had been "coerced" into signing a "Wellness Agreement" ahead of production and that he was wrongfully terminated after failing for a drug test because of prescribed medication that he was taking. Eight months later, he dropped the lawsuit.**** "I hear he's doing a lot better and that makes me happy," Knoxville said, "because we've been through so much together and I love him. I'm happy he's doing well."

As ** reported in January, Margera is expected to appear in the new film, via archival footage collected on previous *Jackass* productions.

Knoxville's footage will be new, although he's said that following an injury he sustained while riding a bull in *Jackass Forever*, there will be limits on what he can do.**

"I can't do anything where I can get another concussion," Knoxville told Syndicate X Library, adding that he's had too many concussions. "I don't care about anything else. I just can't get hit in the head anymore."**

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