{"id":300664,"date":"2026-02-25T01:31:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T01:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/300664\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T01:31:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T01:31:07","slug":"absolutely-awful-johnny-knoxville-warns-fans-about-jackass-5-movie-scenes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/300664\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Absolutely Awful\u2019: Johnny Knoxville warns fans about ‘Jackass 5’ movie scenes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Johnny Knoxville<\/a> has warned fans the ‘Jackass 5’<\/a> movie is “absolutely awful”.<\/p>\n

The daredevil star declared the fifth franchise instalment was “the last one” in an interview with Rolling Stone<\/a> published this week.<\/p>\n

Asked what audiences might hope to see going into the movie, Johnny, whose real name is Philip John Clapp, said they should set their expectations low.<\/p>\n

“You hope it doesn’t go well at all!” he quipped. “Should be a f**king train wreck. That’s what you should hope for.”<\/p>\n

However, he added, “I think we designed it that way”.<\/p>\n

The ‘Jackass’ franchise began in 2000 with an MTV series showcasing pain-inducing stunts with a slapstick edge.<\/p>\n

Elaborating, Johnny, 55, told the outlet the show’s basic premise of having grown men perform risky pranks and stunts of increasing dangerousness was a misguided concept to begin with.<\/p>\n

“Well, it never was a good idea!” he joked. “It was just fun. You know how you have ideas that are terrible but are fun? This would be that.”<\/p>\n

The stuntman said the fifth ‘Jackass’ movie would conclude the franchise’s run.<\/p>\n

“This will be the last one,” he revealed. “This is the natural place to end. So it’s going to be absolutely awful.”<\/p>\n

Johnny is father to three children – daughter Madison Clapp, 30, from his first marriage to Melanie Lynn Clapp, and son Rocko Clapp, 16, and daughter Arlo Clapp, 14, whom he shares with his second wife, Naomi Nelson (he is now married to costume designer Emily Ting).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Johnny Knoxville has warned fans the ‘Jackass 5’ movie is “absolutely awful”. The daredevil star declared the fifth…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300665,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-300664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}