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Topics: Bam Margera, Celebrity, Film and TV, Jackass, Johnny Knoxville, Music, Social Media, US News
Poppy Bilderbeck
Topics: Bam Margera, Celebrity, Film and TV, Jackass, Johnny Knoxville, Music, Social Media, US News
People are flooding to social media after seeing a video of Bam Margera recording a diss track mentioning Jackass co-star Johnny Knoxville.
It's been a whirlwind month for the 43-year-old former professional skateboarder and cast member of Jackass.
After going missing and his brother putting out an urgent appeal to locate him, to sharing photographs of himself detoxing in a hospital bed just weeks ago, Margera has since been spotted on social media alongside a music producer, appearing to be producing a diss track about - you guessed it - Jackass co-star Johnny Knoxville. Catch part of the diss track here:
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The video - originally posted by music producer ZVBBV to his Instagram story - shows Margera dancing round a recording studio alongside multiple other people.
The diss track references the fallout between Knoxville and Margera, with Margera suing Knoxville and Paramount in August 2021 for allegedly 'accosting and coercing' him into signing a 'Wellness Agreement' which reportedly required him to take regular drug tests and led to him being struck off from appearing in Jackass Forever.
Despite the fallout, in an interview with Variety last year, Knoxville reflected on his and Margera's relationship: "It boils down to: I love Bam. I know that a lot has happened. I just want him to get well for himself and his family. I love the guy, and I want him to get well and stay well."
Jackass fans have flooded to the comments of the video - re-shared on Reddit by WitchCulture - most in concern for Margera's mental health.
One Reddit user said: "Honestly breaks my heart to see this :( It is sad to see people around him celebrating this. Either they have just as many demons or they’re laughing at him, not with him."
A second commented: "He's like that kid you see at the high school reunion with their letterman jacket still on just talking about that catch they made at that one game and just never moved on from that. That's Bam Margera. He's not a pro skater anymore Adio doesn't even exist anymore. He's too old for viva la bam nobody wants to see a grown man doing all that dumb crap. His Friends all grew up. But nope Bam is still living in 2005. It's sad."
"He needs better friends," a third added.
And a final resolved: "This is sad... not much more can be said."
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