Jackass celebrity Steve-O was paid $100,000 for showing up in the Sega-published Football video game NFL 2K5.
Speaking With GameSpot, Steve-O claimed he was paid “precisely $100,000” for looking like a celeb train along with Carmen Electra, David Arquette, Funkmaster Flex, and Jamie Kennedy. Just an image and the voice of these celebs was utilized as gamers selected to complete versus them.
NFL 2K5, which starred pass receiver Terrell Owens on its cover, was the last of Sega’s football franchise business which equaled EA’s Madden NFL in the very early 2000s. It was favored however, making a 9/10 in IGN’s testimonial from 2004, and introduced for just $20 contrasted to the requirement (and Madden) cost of $50 for PlayStation 2 and Xbox video games.
” Without a doubt they connected to me,” Steve-O claimed. “It’s so amusing that I mosted likely to advertise this computer game on the Howard Stern program. They paid me quite possibly to do that. In 2004, I believe it was precisely $100,000 they paid me to do that.”
Steve-O’s starring had not been his only computer game look yet it was apparently his most rewarding. He likewise exposed his even more engaged cameo as a skater in Tony Hawk’s Below ground 2, where he rode a mechanical bull as opposed to a skateboard, made him $5,000.
” I believe this was extremely much more prominent, yet that’s gon na refrain from doing that, you understand?” Steve-O included.
Jackass, a program and movie collection concerning Steve-O and buddies carrying out funny yet hazardous feats, likewise had a computer game, appropriately called Jackass: The Video game, yet this apparently really did not gain its celebrities much cash either. “Jackass was truly efficient not paying us that a lot,” he claimed.
Computer game and sporting activities video games specifically have a lengthy partnership with star looks, though they’re possibly much less usual currently. The cover celebrity exposes for every annualised sporting activities collection are constantly extremely expected, nonetheless, with current instances consisting of the Boston Celtics’ Jayson Tatum starring on NBA 2K25’s cover and England celebrity Jude Bellingham showing up on EA Sporting activities’ FC 25.
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Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance press reporter. He’ll speak about The Witcher all the time.