While we're yet to find a woman or gay man who doesn't love Johnny Knoxville, imagine being married to him and knowing that he'll come back from work each night with a broken leg, singed hair and horse semen smeared across his face.
That might just be the reason why Johnny Knoxville and Melanie Lynn Clapp, his wife of 12 years, have filed for divorce. It's been reported that Johnny Knoxville filed divorce papers at Los Angeles Superior Court yesterday citing irreconcilable differences. As yet we aren't certain what there irreconcilable differences are, but we'd imagine that it might have something to do with the increased stress that comes from knowing that your husband gets paid to be deliberately gored by bulls. Well, either that or Melanie Lynn Clapp couldn't stand the shame of being married to someone who starred in that piss-weak Dukes Of Hazzard remake, anyway.
Johnny Knoxville, like it or not, is one of the most influential men in showbusiness at the moment. If it wasn't for Johnny Knoxville's Jackass, then you'd see far less nearly-naked young men in aviator shades pushing fishhooks through their cheeks and putting leeches on their eyeballs in strangely homoerotic ways. And it's also thanks to Jackass that Uncle Child Molester Margera came to prominence. Also, Johnny Knoxville indirectly invented Dirty Sanchez, the best TV show named after acts performed in sex tapes about former stars of Saved By The Bell ever.
But just because he's turned wading around a ball-pit full of snakes into box office gold, it doesn't mean that all is well in the personal life of Johnny Knoxville as the end of his marriage – neatly timed to be buried by Independence Day – proves only too well. People reports:
Jackass star Johnny Knoxville filed for divorce Tuesday from his wife of 12 years, court papers show. Knoxville, 36, whose real name is listed as Philip John Clapp, cited irreconcilable differences in his split from Melanie Lynn Clapp, according to the Los Angeles Superior Court filing.
It's not the greatest surprise in the world, because the divorce papers show that Johnny Knoxville and Melanie Lynn Clapp have been separated for a year, but the important thing is that Johnny and Melanie's 11-year-old daughter Madison is looked after properly. While Johnny Knoxville has applied for joint legal and physical custody of Madison, as well as offering to pay an unspecified amount of spousal support, it's clear that Knoxville loves his daughter more than Clapp does because Johnny Knoxville has her name tattooed across his chest and Melanie Lynn Clapp hasn't. That should probably be taken into consideration when the divorce is being processed.
But why are Johnny Knoxville and Melanie Lynn Clapp getting divorced? One enduring rumour is that it's because Johnny Knoxville had a fling with Jessica Simpson on the set of Dukes Of Hazzard, which also put the skids on Jessica's marriage to Nick Lachey. However, we're praying that this isn't the case – not only because Johnny Knoxville had a wife and daughter at the time but also because, if he really did break up Nick and Jessica's marriage, Johnny Knoxville is directly responsible for both Nick Lachey's girly sobfest of an album and, ultimately, those hardcore Nick Lachey/ Vanessa Minnillo sex photos. And that'd be the most disgusting Johnny Knoxville stunt yet.
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scott wilson says
why are you being so immature and harsh about johnny Knoxville he is a great man and dukes of hazard was awesome so hows about if you have nothing nice to say don’t say anything.
Jim says
“… johnny Knoxville he is a great man and dukes of hazard was awesome”?
Huh?