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Daily Mail
09-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Inside Bam Magera's comeback: Troubled Jackass star looks healthy as he plots to turn his life around
made a surprise return to the spotlight this week, hitting the red carpet looking healthy, happy, and back in action. The 45-year-old skateboarder, once known for his wild antics on MTV's Jackass, has spent recent years battling addiction, legal troubles, and public breakdowns. In 2021, he was fired from Jackass Forever after reportedly violating a wellness agreement tied to his role in the film. Two years later, Margera was arrested twice—first for allegedly kicking his girlfriend during a domestic dispute, then weeks later for causing a drunken scene at a Burbank restaurant where his estranged wife, Nicole Boyd, and their son Phoenix were dining. Following a DUI parole violation, he was released from prison in September and entered short-term treatment. Now, fans are hopeful again as he stepped out Thursday night for the launch party of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4, celebrating the reboot of the beloved game alongside Tony Hawk himself. Not only is he featured in the upcoming release, but he brought along his new wife, model Dannii Marie, and the pair looked completely smitten. The brunette beauty stunned in a sleek black gown as the couple posed for photos before heading to a private dinner in Los Angeles. For longtime fans, the sight of Bam smiling and reuniting with Hawk sparked hope that the skater-turned-stuntman may finally be back on his board—and back on track. Rumors had swirled for. months that Bam had been cut from the Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3+4 reboot—until a supposed last-minute intervention from Tony Hawk himself reportedly got him back in. Even then, nothing was confirmed until Margera surprised fans by hitting the red carpet at the game's official launch, looking healthy and beaming alongside his wife. Given Margera's troubled history with addiction—and his firing from Jackass Forever —many doubted whether Activision would want to work with him again. But insiders say Hawk had the final word, and Margera had already been seen frequenting Hawk's personal skatepark in recent months, raising hopes for a comeback. His appearance at the launch came just months after a turning point in his ongoing legal saga. In September, following a DUI parole violation, Margera was released from jail and entered short-term treatment. His lawyer, Michael T. van der Veen, told 'He is back on the road to his successful career and wonderful life with his wife.' Van der Veen said Margera had passed all drug and alcohol screenings for over a year and was 'interested in getting better' and 'getting this case behind him.' The court sentenced him to six months of probation tied to a guilty plea on two counts of disorderly conduct, with terms that included random drug testing and mental health treatment. Following the plea, Margera told the judge, 'I just want to say thanks for this whole situation. It lets me clean up my life. 'It is a blessing in disguise.' In an interview with MediaNews Group that same month, he added, 'With the path I was on with alcohol and drugs, I needed to hit some rock bottom to turn things around.' The charges stemmed from a string of incidents in 2023, including an alleged physical altercation with his brother Jess. Margera was arrested twice—first for allegedly kicking his girlfriend during a domestic dispute, then weeks later for causing a drunken scene at a Burbank restaurant where his estranged wife, Nicole Boyd, and their son Phoenix were dining. Jess testified that Bam had punched him repeatedly and threatened multiple family members, including his girlfriend and parents. 'He was threatening everybody. The whole house,' Jess told the court. 'My girlfriend looked like she had just gotten back from Afghanistan, with PTSD.' An arrest affidavit stated that Margera fled into nearby woods before he was apprehended. Margera has struggled with addiction and been in and out of rehab since 2009.
Yahoo
04-04-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
DEI bans for schools, colleges passed by Mississippi Legislature
After several heated debates in both the House and Senate and many hours of back-and-forth negotiations, Mississippi lawmakers passed a measure recently to ban diversity, equity and inclusion policies at Mississippi schools, community colleges and universities. The legislation, House Bill 1193, passed by the House Tuesday, April 1, and Wednesday, April 2, in the Senate, would fall in line with recent executive orders signed by President Donald J. Trump to ban DEI policies within the federal government. The bill, on top of banning DEI policies and teachings, also seeks to establish internal reporting mechanisms and legal recourses to prevent any DEI activity. "We had to take into consideration the federal executive orders that have passed down," Senate Universities and Colleges Chairwoman Nicole Boyd, R-Oxford said. "We worked with the House to get a bill that we thought would be good guidance for our K-12 schools, our community colleges and our IHL institutions to work with what we were looking for." During every debate in both the House and Senate this session, Democrats have challenged the legislation, saying it would erode protections for minorities that have helped to make Mississippi's education system a more inclusive setting for both working professionals and students. 'What diversity, equity and inclusion does is it is a mechanism that opens the door for me that your fathers or your grandfathers or somebody down the road opened for you," Sen. Rod Hickman, D-Macon, said on the Senate floor in February. Senate passes DEI ban: DEI ban passes MS Senate. See who will be impacted DEI in the past was pegged as a method to ensure minority populations and underrepresented groups were not held back from both professional and educational opportunities. In recent years, those policies have come under attack by state and national Republicans, who have labeled DEI discriminatory. DEI opponents have also argued the policies force identity politics and education on students, putting groups of people into discriminatory labels. There are some groups and acts, including disabled students and veterans, any scholarly research and student organizations, that are exempt from the legislation seeking to ban DEI policies and activities. Some concepts such as gender identity will also be removed from education policy and curriculums, which fall in line with a statewide effort to align national GOP practices. When the House and Senate first proposed their bills, there was a big difference in how DEI ban policies would be reported and enforced. The House initially pushed for a process where state funding could be suspended for schools or universities that were reported to be in violation of the new law, as well as a method for litigation against that institution. The Senate preferred a more in-house approach, allowing for any violation to be dealt with internally at first, with a task force committee to study education efficiency attached to the bill. House passes DEI ban: MS House passes DEI ban. See who would be impacted Both chambers eventually compromised and the legislation now allows for an internal review process of any DEI ban violations and people can sue only after that review has been completed. That review period lasts 25 days for the school or college to "reverse" whatever DEI or DEI-adjacent activity that has been reported, and people could only sue after that. They could also ask the state attorney general's office to sue on their behalf if they do not agree with any findings in a report produced at the end of that 25-day review period. The DEI ban comes on the heels of the Trump administration's efforts to ban DEI within the federal government and within education. Since his 2024 presidential campaign, Trump has been firm that eliminating DEI is a priority for his team and himself. This year Republicans in both chambers have worked to eliminate DEI after state colleges had been amending many of their DEI policies to fall in line with national GOP trends. It also happened to one of only a few legislative priorities that made it out of the 2025 session. Lawmakers on Wednesday and Thursday gaveled out the session early after they could not come to an agreement on the state's $7 billion budget. Republican Gov. Tate Reeves said on Thursday afternoon he plans to call a special session to fund the coming fiscal year, which begins on July 1. Grant McLaughlin covers the Legislature and state government for the Clarion Ledger. He can be reached at gmclaughlin@ or 972-571-2335. This article originally appeared on Mississippi Clarion Ledger: DEI bans pass MS Legislature
