I have to hand it to Elisabetta Canalis. She’s working a movie premiere (Hit & Run, more on that at this link) with a dude who got famous stapling his balls to his leg and setting himself on fire and she looks more happy, comfortable and dare I say – proud – than she ever did with George Clooney. Let’s revisit photos of Elisabetta with Clooney for sh*ts and giggles.

Here she is at the Oscars with Clooney in 2010:

And at the Golden Globes in 2010:

See what I mean? She just looks awkward and like she’s trying to play a role. To be fair, I guess everyone looks uptight at these events, but I have an agenda here so go with it. These photos also remind me of how short a shelf life Clooney’s women have. 2010 is not that long ago!

So here she is with her on-again lover, Steve-O, and they look super happy and like they’re practically related. Look at their faces in this photo, they really look alike. I guess what they say about people being attracted to their facemates or something is true. Also: do you guys do a double-take like I do when you see couples who are dressed alike and look alike? I love seeing couples who are wearing the same color and style clothing and I always wonder if they did it deliberately or if it was a mistake or not.

Steve-O and Elisabetta aren’t dressed alike here, but look at them they’re practically twins if you account for her nosejob. Oh, the last we heard about these two they had broken up in April, and Elisabetta may have hooked up with Lenny Kravitz last month, but of course now they’re together again. It’s like looking in a mirror.

You know what would be awesome? If Elisabetta Canalis was pregnant with Steve-O’s daredevil baby. But it’s probably just the weird waistline on that dress, which only poofs out at certain angles.

Thanks to Popoholic for the lead!

Photo credit: Fameflynet

You know when it’s time to rethink your life choices? When someone from Jackass dumps you for being too hardcore. This is what has just happened to everybody’s favorite Italian party girl/escort Elisabetta Canalis. After she was dumped by George Clooney, she started dating Mehcad Brooks. Then Eli and Mehcad broke up last December after an alleged fight about a purse (for real). And then Eli moved on Steve-O, best known as “that crazy dude from Jackass… no, the other crazy dude.” Steve-O just dumped her. OUCH.

Italian beauty Elisabetta Canalis really is unlucky in love.

Following hot on the heels of her high profile break-up from ladies man George Clooney, the Dancing with the Stars alum is once again nursing a broken heart — this time following a split from Jackass star Steve-O, RadarOnline.com is exclusively reporting.

RadarOnline.com was first to report back in January that the unlikely couple was hooking up, and now we can report all the details on their split.

“Steve-O dumped Elisbetta over her partying,” a source close to the situation tells RadarOnline.com. “He is extremely serious about his sobriety and did not want to be dating anyone who could jeopardize that.

“He still really cares about her but can’t risk relapsing back into his old ways, so he had to cut her loose. He has hooked her up with some women that he knows to help her try and get back on a stable footing again, and she has been attending meetings.

“Steve-O said he thinks she’s committed to getting control of her life again and that he will help her do that, he wants her to control the partying for her own sake. But, in the meantime he needs to distance himself from her.”

[From Radar]

Poor Elisabetta. After Clooney dumped her, she stuck around Hollywood, trying to make a career “happen” in America. She got Dancing With the Stars and she was the first one eliminated. She tried bearding for lesser celebrities (allegedly). She tried to get work… but it’s just not happening without Clooney’s influence. When Steve-O – of all people – is like, “Girl, we need to stop. You’re too hardcore,” that’s when you know it’s time to just pack it up. Elisabetta had a decent career in Italy – she should just go back home and settle in.

Stacy Keibler, this is your future. The George Clooney Ex-Girlfriend Retirement Plan is pretty awful.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

I don’t even want to get into the ongoing controversies surrounding the death of Ryan Dunn, but this story was irresistible to me. I guess PopEater decided to check in with some of the other Jackass dudes who are still alive, and wouldn’t you know, Steve-O happens to be promoting his memoir, Professional Idiot: A Memoir, this week. I’ve never really cared for Steve-O when I watched Jackass episodes, so this is a new experience… I actually like him in this interview. He talks about Johnny Knoxville and a group of friends forcing him to get sober, and how he’s lucky to be alive because of their intervention. But the best part of this interview is when he talks about how he used snort mountains of cocaine with famous people. He’s got a hilarious Linnocent story!

Steve-O on being forced in sobriety: “Johnny Knoxville and a bunch of our ‘Jackass’ crew staged an intervention and they forcibly locked me up in a psychiatric ward,” Steve O told me. “When I got to the hospital I was so belligerent that they changed my status to 2 weeks. So the 3 days went to 2 weeks and with that kind of time on my hands in a psych ward I eventually came to the conclusion that I really needed to make a change.”

He’s been sober for more than three years: Steve-O had suffered with alcohol and drug additions through out his life until Johnny stepped in on March 10th of 2008, a date Steve will never forget … the date he finally got sober. Admitting that if it weren’t for Johnny he would be dead, Steve-O told me about how dark and lonely his days would be when he was high. “For me it stopped being a gathering,” he said. “I was sitting alone and watching people walk around my apartment who were never actually there. It all turns on you man. It got really dark and the reason why I needed to make a change is that I truthfully turned into this nasty sh*thead. Just a douche bag.”

The Linnocent story: “I’ve done a lot of drugs with Lindsay (Lohan), but everybody knows that. Lindsay was over at my house one time and she was in my bathroom probably selfishly not sharing drugs,” Steve O revealed. “But while she was in there, I pulled out my camera and I got this crazy footage. And some time passed and later I go in my bathroom and I find that she left her wallet, so I sent her this text and I said Lindsay, you left your wallet in my bathroom. This was when she was in rehab and she told me to bring it to her. So I meet her in the driveway of this Wonderland Rehab that she’s in and I make her sign a release form of the footage that I have.”

Doing coke with Mike Tyson: “[Me and] Mike Tyson locked ourselves in the bathroom in this big mansion … so here I am with Mike Tyson locked in this bathroom in this big mansion just doing piles of cocaine and I looked at him and said ‘you know Mike, I’m not a racist guy, but I would like to say I consider myself a [n-word]. And we had a big discussion over this pile of cocaine. My point was that if we could take the color out of this word then we would really diffuse it as a weapon. Mike Tyson said the definition of that word is the people who use it and I thought that was very insightful.”

[From PopEater]

I wonder how long ago that Mike Tyson incident happened? I didn’t know Mike was a raging cokehead too, but the best is part is still the Linnocent stuff. Will Mother Crackhead even deign to deny it? Will Linnocent? I looked it up – Linnocent’s Wonderland Rehab stay was back in January 2007. And Linnocent already admitted to experimenting with cocaine back in the day, so she’ll probably just say it’s all in the past and now she’s fine. OH WAIT. Is Steve-O talking about THIS? In 2007, stills from a video were released of Linnocent on a 20-hour cocaine binge just days after leaving rehab. Did Steve-O shoot that video? Probably. After all, Linnocent also stole his cocaine back in the day too.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

When I read that Steve-O called himself a “cocaine-addicted clown” I thought he meant he was clown-ish, but he was literally working as a clown and doing lines to keep going. The former Jackass star has a new MTV special coming up in which he talks about his troubled life and struggle with addiction. He worked as a clown for a flea market after graduating from Ringling Bros clown college, and would do cocaine and go without sleeping for days to get through his frenetic act:

On Jackass, viewers watched him gag inside a helmet full of crickets and bob for jellyfish. On Dancing with the Stars, they watched as he danced the foxtrot and Viennese waltz. Now on a new unflinching MTV special, Steve-O: Demise and Rise, viewers will witness his longtime struggle with drugs and alcohol as well as his recent decision to sober up. PEOPLE has an exclusive clip of the program.

Even before Jackass and the spin-off Wildboyz, Steve-O, now 34, has been documenting his life on tape, including his days at the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Clown College, which led to a job at a flea-market circus. There, he says, he was a “cocaine-addicted clown,” who performed “two shows on Friday, three shows on Saturday and three shows on Sunday, and typically I would do cocaine through all of it without sleeping.”

Steve-O: Demise and Rise, which airs May 3 (10 p.m. ET) on MTV, also shows “extreme substance abuse, including the marathon nitrous oxide sessions, terrorizing his next door neighbor, his ill-fated attempt at being a gangsta-rapper and several infamous public displays of self-destructive behavior,” according to a press release from the network.

Steve-O’s story continues as he tries “to stay clean, sober and focused on making amends to those closest to him hurt by his addiction,” says the release. The documentary follows the Steve-O through to his first performance on ABC’s Dancing with the Stars.

[From People]

Since attending rehab and a mental institution last year and getting sober, Steve has found comfort in spirituality and extra-sensory pursuits like astral projection. I’m not into any of that, butif you read his MySpace blog entries the way he describes his search for meaning and clarity is compelling. You root for the guy and want good things for him. Despite how foolish and stupid he is, Steve-O has a kind of humanity and humbleness that makes him real. He connects with his fans and seems really committed to change.

Steve-O competed on “Dancing With The Stars” up until last week, finishing 6th. The tabloids are reporting that the 34 year-old is involved with his dance partner, Lacey Schwimmer, 20, off the dance floor. These two had a good rapport when they appeared together on the Jimmy Kimmel show (link leads to video) last week after their elimination. Steve had Lacey kick him in the nuts on the show and they claimed that they were going to make it part of a dance but chickened out. Before she ran at him to do the deed, Lacey said “I love you,” so I would bet that they’re more than just friends.

I’m glad to see that there are more things in store for Steve and hopefully he’ll find a way to make a living without hurting himself for sport. He doesn’t seem to want to give it up though.

Steve-O and Lacey Schwimmer are shown at Perez Hilton’s birthday party on 3/28/09. Credit: WENN.com

After fellow contestants Nancy O’Dell and Jewel had to leave Dancing with the Stars due to injuries (both knee injuries from overtraining), Steve-O has become the third celebrity to have to sit out. During dress rehearsals, Steve-O fell while trying to do a flip in the air and landed on the microphone pack on his back, hurting his spine and suffering from a hematoma. Even though he couldn’t make it to the live competition, he wasn’t voted off the show and hopes to return next week.

TV stuntman Steve-O has been diagnosed with a hematoma after taking a nasty tumble while rehearsing for TV show Dancing With The Stars.

The Jackass star fell on his microphone pack while trying to perfect a somersault during Monday’s dress rehearsal for the show, and was rushed to hospital.

He was still under medical supervision when the show went live, forcing him to miss a dance-off with partner Lacey Schwimmer.

He says, “I have a hematoma. In laymen’s terms it means I grew a third butt cheek… A sprained vessel… I have a pinched nerve and my back is sprained.”

But Steve-O has no plans to follow injured celebrities Jewel and TV presenter Nancy O’Dell and quit the show.

He adds, “I’ll be fine.”

Despite his no-show on Monday night’s show, Steve-O avoided becoming the first dancer cut – that dishonor belonged to The Go-Go’s singer Belinda Carlisle.

[from Star Pulse]

Considering that Steve-O has been bitten by every kind of insect, snake, and animal; thrown himself onto/into/underneath heavy/moving/falling objects; had heavy objects thrown at him; and has had staples shot into his skin, it’s ironic that a microphone pack would be his downfall. This is just like his other stupid Jackass or Wildboyz stunts, only this one was accidental and wasn’t caught on tape. Hematomas are no laughing matter – they’re very painful and can be dangerous if not taken care of properly. I sincerely hope he gets better in time to compete next week; he is the only celebrity that would actually compel me to spend my time watching DWTS.

Photo credit: Craig Sjodin/ABC/MCT

There has been a lot of speculation on who will and who won’t perform on Dancing With the Stars for its eighth season, but now the official list has been published. The list includes some obvious contestants (Denise Richards), and some not so obvious (Lil Kim and Steve Wozniak, the man who co-founded Apple).

Lawrence Taylor
The former NFL star, 50, played his entire career as a linebacker for the New York Giants.

Belinda Carlisle
The singer, 50, was the lead vocalist and founding member of the 80s band The Go-Go’s.

Shawn Johnson
The 17-year-old Olympic-gold-medal-winning gymnast is the youngest DWTS competitor in the show’s history.

Denise Richards
After a contentious divorce from Charlie Sheen, the 37-year-old actress and mother of two daughters got her own reality show, Denise Richards: It’s Complicated.

Lil’ Kim
The Grammy Award winning rapper, 33, spent 10 months in jail in 2006 for lying to a federal grand jury.

Gilles Marini
The actor is best known for playing Kim Cattrall’s sexy — and predominantly naked — neighbor in 2008′s Sex and the City movie.

Steve-O
The daredevil performer, 34, showcased ridiculous stunts on MTV’s Jackass and the spinoff Wildboyz.

Steve Wozniak
Nicknamed “The Woz” by ex Kathy Griffin, the computer engineer, 58, co-founded the Apple computer company with Steve Jobs.

Jewel
The singer-songwriter, 34 – who became a household name in 1995 with her song “Who Will Save Your Soul” – has released seven albums.

Ty Murray
The former rodeo cowboy, 39, is married to fellow contestant Jewel.

David Alan Grier
The actor, 53, came to fame on In Living Color and currently hosts the Comedy Central sketch news show, Chocolate News.

Chuck Wicks
The country singer is currently dating fellow crooner and two-time DWTS champion Julianne Hough. Wicks, 29, will be paired up with the professional dancer this season.

Nancy O’Dell
The entertainment journalist currently serves as the co-host of Access Hollywood with Billy Bush. O’Dell, 42, also hosted NBC’s pre-show for the 2009 Golden Globe Awards in January.

[from Us]

The cast looks like it’s going to be an interesting one – there are contestants from every walk of life, every genre of entertainment. DWTS used to be considered the lowest of the low – the place you turn to when your career is on the downturn and The Surreal Life denies your application. But with people like Steve-O, Lil Kim and Jewel as cast members, maybe that stereotype is changing.

All photos credit: WENN

The reality TV self-promotion queen and the recovering addict will be joining the cast of Dancing with the Stars next season. The casting of Denise Richards is not surprising in the least, and the more I think about it, Steve-O might be an interesting choice. According to Life&Style, his work on Jackass will prepare him for an “aggressive” dance partner.

Life & Style has learned exclusively that Denise, 37, star of Denise Richards: It’s Complicated, has already been prepping for her TV dancing debut. “She’s super excited and has lost a few pounds to tone up and get in shape,” an insider tells Life & Style. “She’s ready and thinks she can go all the way!”

The London-born Steve-O (real name Stephen Glover), 34, became famous on the Jackass TV show (there were also two Jackass movies), which ran from 2000 to 2002. He specialized in stunts that involved gruesome forms of self-injury — experience that could be helpful for Steve-O if he’s paired with an aggressive partner!

[from Life & Style]

Even though it makes complete sense that Denise Richards would want to go onto the show, I’m not sure she’s the perfect candidate. She’s just not very likeable. People watch her reality show It’s Complicated because it’s entertaining watching her whine through her self-absorbed life. Now that her kids aren’t allowed to be featured on the show, each episode will be even more of a ego-stroking for her.

The last time we heard from Steve-O, he was blogging on the perils of drug use from a mental institution. Hopefully his inclusion on the “star” roster of Dancing with the Stars means that he’s gotten to a more stable place. It will be really interesting to see Steve-O, who is more commonly filmed enticing scorpions to sting him or stapling himself, wearing sequins and doing the cha-cha in front of an audience. I don’t see him as a celebrity for the target audience of the show, but maybe that’s the beauty of it. He’ll be seen in a more serious light, and the show will be able to expand its fan base. Unlike many guests on the show who are washed-up celebrities (ahem, Denise Richards), I think that Steve-O won’t take himself too seriously, and for that reason he’ll be fun to watch.

Denise Richards is shown on 1/18/09 at the premiere of Finding Bliss at the Sundance Festival, where she clearly soaked up the swag. Steve-O is shown in a photoshoot from 2007. Credit: WENN

I think one of the best ways to really keep kids off drugs is to talk to them in their own language. And it’s best when they hear about it from people they’ll actually listen to; people who speak on their level. So who better to warn kids to stay off drugs than Jackass star Steve-O?

Steve has a rap sheet so long I think his Wikipedia page almost exploded when I opened it. He’s struggled with serious drugs and mental illness for years, and in March was physically removed from his home by his friends, who forced him to check into a mental hospital. He’s been there ever sense, and recently wrote on his blog exactly why you shouldn’t do drugs.

After seeing “Dr. Drew’s Celebrity Addiction Special” on VH1 News, I figured it was time to put something out there for you all. I expected my part on that show to be much harder to watch than it wound up being. It made me want to explain a little bit of what I’ve been going through since I got clean, to help some of you understand how much damage drugs and alcohol have really done to me. I’ve now been clean for 115 days, and I’m, again, in a mental institution. I did so much cocaine, ketamine, pcp, nitrous oxide, and all sorts of other drugs, that, quite simply, my brain is f&%$ed up. As you can probably tell by the way I’m writing this, my cognitive skills are alright, but, I frequently suffer from horrible mood swings and severe depression. Those of you who have followed my warped mind’s trail on the Internet for a significant amount of time have, I’m sure, been very aware of those attributes, but, I just want you all to know that four f&%$ng months (almost) of not touching a damn thing that a psychiatrist didn’t perscribe to me hasn’t changed that shit. The medication that is prescribed to me doesn’t do the trick every day, let’s just put it that way. I’m back in the looney bin trying to get that shit right. The bottom line is that doing drugs f&%$ed my ass up and I’m going to be paying for it for a long time, probably for the rest of my life. Everyone’s going to make their own decisions in life, but nobody needs to make the same mistakes I made. I love you all,

[From Steve O’s Myspace blog]

I think that’s really good to hear. A lot of people experiment a bit with drugs and are fine, and that’s the end of the story. But there are always heartbreaking stories like Steve’s where it just ends up ruining a person’s life. I have a friend who has been in and out of mental institutions since high school in a case that sounds pretty similar to this.

Steve obviously has a ton of issues – both medical and mental – to work through. But it sounds like he’s taking them seriously, and hopefully will do whatever work needs to be done to get better.

Here’s Steve O at Maxim’s 2008 Hot 100 party in Los Angeles on May 21st. I’m assuming he’s either been in and out of the mental hospital and happened to be out that day, or he got some kind of… day pass? Photographer: Dimitri Halkidis; Images thanks to WENN.

Update: Photos removed at the request of the National Enquirer. You can see them in their latest issue with Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen’s feud on the cover. We are sorry to the Enquirer and thank them for being nice about asking us to remove them.

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“Jackass” star Steve O is in rehab after he was put into the hospital on a mental health observation for supposedly threatening to kill himself. It also came out that he has bipolar disorder, something that he admits on his myspace blog. Steve O also freely owes up to doing drugs, and there are photos out of him in this week’s Enquirer snorting coke off a woman’s leg. The accompanying story about how he was supposedly “hitting on random girls and asking to snort coke of their breasts” isn’t true though, he asserts, and he says the false claims are particularly damaging because he was engaged at the time:

The stories that are circulating right now about me being at some party hitting on random girls and asking to snort drugs from their breasts are not true at all. I will be the first to admit that I’ve snorted all kinds of drugs, in all sorts of situations, but I take offense to claims that I was running around hitting on random women at a time when I was under the impression that I was engaged to be married. I know many of you who are in receipt of this message from me work in the media, and I would greatly appreciate it if you would squash this dishonest journalism. These stories are so untrue, they place me at a party hitting on women when I was locked up in the looney bin. I’m a tough guy, with very thick skin, but that doesn’t mean I take kindly to being lied about, especially when it comes to behavior that took place after I asked someone to marry me and before I was informed, by the girl I asked to marry me, that she had completely changed her mind about getting married. Feel free to write whatever you want about me being rejected by my fiance, because that is true, but, please, don’t lie about me. I like to consider myself to be exciting
enough that dishonesty is not required to get a story out of me. Thanks, I love you all,
Steve-O

[From Steve O's myspace]

This is the guy who stapled his balls to his legs, peed on the red carpet, smoked a bowl on the red carpet, ate roadkill, and generally comes off as an idiot of the highest order, but somehow I believe him and am rooting for him. At first I thought that Steve O’s girlfriend broke up with him after reading that National Enquirer article, but he blogged on March 20 that “she later expressed that she completely changed her mind about getting married. Now I am in recovery and do not have a significant other,” so it sounds like he’s just upset that the Enquirer made it seem like he was hitting on women when he was engaged at the time.

Steve O has been getting into all sorts of weird new age stuff (that seems to be a theme for today) and has been blogging about how he’s searching for more information about his higher power. He’s talked about The Age of Aquarius and told people to look up more information about the “Pleiadians,” which are said to be extraterrestrial beings which have visited earth. As long as he’s not sinking money into a cult, if it helps him to get sober that’s all that matters.

Steve O comes across as someone who is really trying to conquer his demons and figure out his place in the world. Maybe he’ll come up with a slightly less self-destructive way to make money once he’s out of rehab.

An actual photo of Steve-O drinking as a toddler, found on his myspace

Steve-O, the Jackass star who recently checked into rehab for his drug and alcohol issues, has posted a goodbye letter to drugs and alcohol on his official blog. Steve-O addresses his mother’s alcoholism, and the fact he was given the alcohol as a child, which was not uncommon, it was often used to make babies sleep. Don’t try this!

On his childhood exposure to alcohol:

Mom was very alcoholic, and I feel that is a gross understatement. I’d love to say that I first took to alcohol out of affection for my mother (there was never any shortage of that for me) but I think the truth is that I was always powerless over it. I know I was always powerless over alcoholism, because it had such a grip on Mom’s adulthood and my childhood, and I never chose to fight it. Until now. Dad was a corporate executive whose job required the family to travel the world fairly extensively and both Mom and Dad were quite self conscious of how they were perceived by others. We were frequently on airplanes and, before Mom and Dad would find themselves in the embarrassing position of being caught by other passengers with a crying baby, I was fed alcohol.

[From Steve-O's myspace]

Steve-O also talks about his attempts to kick his vices, his abusive behavior towards loved ones, his belief in a higher power to help him (this is a very large part of most rehab programs), and the affect his addictions have had on his work, finances and personal life. He ends the blog with this statement.

A GOODBYE LETTER TO MY DRUGS OF CHOICE
At this point,
All you f’ing things are good for is dying. I’m not ready to die. I’m ready to live. I’m ready to breathe (properly, even). I’m ready to fall in love. I’m ready to become ready to start a family. I’m ready to be happy, fulfilled and meaningful. Maybe I’ll see you fukkers if and/or when I’m ready to die.

[From Steve-O's myspace]

I really appreciate how hard it can be to kick an addiction after reading this letter. I hope you can get past your addictions Steve-O. It can take a lot work and many attempts to get beyond a drug and alcohol dependency.

Note by Celebitchy: I’ve been keeping up with Steve O’s blog and he seems like he’s coming to terms with his issues and trying to make sense of his life so far. He also comes off as a lot smarter and self aware than you might assume. We wish him the best.

These photos are from Steve-O’s myspace of him as a baby and a kid.