Bam Margera claims he lost out on $5 million fee after being shut out of new Jackass movie
Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Bam Margera has spoken out about his absence from the forthcoming Jackass 5, claiming that as a result, he won’t be receiving his expected $5 million paycheck. While Margera, 46, an original and core member of the Jackass crew, will appear in the new movie through archival footage, he will not be filming any new stunts. Speaking recently to TMZ about the agreement, the former stuntman — who was fired from the fourth film, Jackass Forever (2022), after an alleged breach of contract related to his documented drug and alcohol use — admitted that he was still “hurt” about the whole ordeal. “If you had a laundry list of the chain of horrible events of the two years of Covid that they put me through, spending my own money at an alarming rate for therapists, doctors and treatment and all this, …
