Bam Margera is an American skateboarder, stunt performer, actor, musician, filmmaker and TV personality.
His estimated net worth is around 50$ million.
Early life
Brandon Cole Margera was born on September 28, 1979 in West Chester, Pennsylvania. His parents April and Phil Margera, younger brother Jess Margera nad nephew Vincent Margera all lived together.
Bam got his nickname after his grandfather who ran into walls often and got the nickname “Bam”. Bam Margera attended the East High School. He often said that the only reason he went to high school was because of his friend Chris Raab.
TV and movie career
Bam’s popularity started when he began shooting videos of him and his friends skateboarding. These videos were turned into CKY video series and after the first release, CKY2K, CKY3 and CKY4 were released. The shortcut stands for Camp Kill Yourself as a reference to the movie Sleepaway Camp.
These videos show many Margera’s friends doing skateboard stunts and the name CKY is also the name of Bam’s brother’s rock band.
Big Brother editor Jeff Tremaine got his hands on these videos and came up with an idea of creating the MTV Jackass. Margera’s first appearance was on MTV Jackass and after this few Jackass movies were released and mostly all of them became popular with the audience.
Many of the stunts were first conducted by his old crew. MTV audience adored Margera, and he got his first show Viva La Bam, where he pretty much did all the crazy things he usually does with his crew. Few spin-off’s followed Viva La Bam.
In 2008 Bam appeared in a pornographic film called “The fantastic whores 4”, where he didn’t have a big role and didn0t appear naked. His movie Jackass 3D was released and the movie did pretty good.
Bam even discussed his destructive behavior in one of the shows on VH1, where he explained why he acts the way he do, and Dr. Jen tried to resolve his issues.
Skateboarding career, independent movies and radio Bam
Bam earned most of his money from sponsorships and his movies and TV shows. He also has his own footwear line.
He showed his talent in writing and directing in the movie Bam Margera Presents: Where the#$&% Is Santa? in 2008.
Bam also has a radio show called Radio Bam, which brings him a fair amount of money and he also started a production company which, until now, produced few music videos and songs.
His band “Fuckface Unstoppable” wasn’t very well received by the critics and they described their work as a laughing matter and the band members seemed to be more like clowns rather than serious musicians.
Bam also appeared in the video games Underground and Underground 2, Pro skaters 2 and 4, and few other video games devoted to skateboarding.
He gave his voice to the character in the video game Scarface: The world is yours and he had a small role in the movie Grind and Destroying America.
In 2008 he opened a theatre bar called “The note” in his hometown but it was closed few years after that by the city Council. Margera also wrote a book Serious as Dog Dirt which was released in 2009.
Private life
Bam was engaged to Jenn Rivell. She played a big part in couple of his projects and was in few episodes of Viva la bam. Their relationship ended in 2005 and in 2006 he filed a restriction order for Rivell, who allegedly broke into his home.
In 2006 he was engaged to Melissa Missy Rothstein. The couple got married and their wedding ceremony was filmed in an MTV show Bam’s unholy union in 2007. In 2008 he admitted that he had a huge amount of damage that was caused by his Jackass crew during his wedding ceremony.
In 2009 Missy called 911 because of Bam’s 4 alcohol addiction that became serious at the time. The marriage ended in 2012 and in 2013 Margera got married to Nicole Boyd in Reykjavik in Iceland.
Quick summary:
Full Name: Brandon Cole Margera
Date of Birth: September 28, 1979
Birth Place: West Chester, Pennsylvania
Age: 37 years
Profession: skateboarder, stunt performer, actor, musician, filmmaker and TV personality
Height: 1.73 m
Weight: 75 kg
Net worth: 50$ million