John Waters Officiates Johnny Knoxville’s Concussion-Free Wedding
In a ceremony surprisingly free of nut-crunching stunts, Jackass star Johnny Knoxville tied the knot last weekend with costume designer Emily Ting. But that doesn’t mean the wedding didn’t get weird — the nuptials were officiated by Pink Flamingos writer/director and notorious misfit John Waters. “It seems I have had a lot of news lately but there is no news bigger than this…..Today Emily and I got married and I’m the luckiest and happiest fella in the universe,” Knoxville posted on Instagram.
As for Waters, the weirdo delivered the goods. “THE best minister ever. Thank you John Waters we love you so. Ok I’m getting off Instagram now because it’s our wedding night,” Knoxville wrote, punctuating the wedding night comment with a winking emoji.
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Celebrities offered their Insta congratulations, including luminaries David Spade, Pauly Shore, and an offer from Triumph the Insult Comic Dog to provide romantic company for the couple’s dog, Bucket. “Oh yayss.”What’s the Waters/Knoxville connection? The duo goes back to at least 2004’s A Dirty Shame, Waters’s NC-17 comedy that starred Knoxville as the sex-saint Ray-Ray, a man who could shoot sperm from his head. What better actor to introduce repressed Tracey Ullman to a world of sensual pleasure?Knoxville fanboyed all over Waters when doing press for the film. “I’m a huge fan of his and, for him to like Jackass, it was a huge compliment,” Knoxville told IGN in 2004. “He said a lot of nice things. He's amazing. John Waters is, like he's outrageous, but he's a sweet guy … He's very hands on. These movies are distinctly his personality, so I wanted all the input he had. He would give it to us. I'm in a John Waters picture and I'm psyched.”
The lovefest was mutual. “He is an anarchist, a real one,” Waters gushed. “I think the show Jackass was anarchy. The best thing you can ever do is make all kids love you and have their parents hate you, which is really a liberating thing. I remember knowing that he was really going to be a giant star when 60 Minutes, one of them, 20/20, did a big exposé of all the kids that had done the stunts and been hurt. And this kid set himself on fire and he was, like, being interviewed in the bed, and they said, ‘What would you do today if you could meet Johnny Knoxville, what would you say?’ And he said, ‘I'd ask for his autograph!’ Which is so great.”Waters likely loves Ting as well, considering that she worked on both Jackass 4.5 and Jackass Forever. Here’s hoping the officiant and happy couple smashed bottles of champagne over each other’s skulls before the honeymoon commenced.
