Johnny Knoxville shocks suburbs with epic explosion that Southern California locals mistook for plane crash

This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. ©2026 FOX News Network, LLC. All rights reserved. Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. Market data provided by Factset. Powered and implemented by FactSet Digital Solutions. Legal Statement. Mutual Fund and ETF data provided by LSEG. Fox News Flash top entertainment and celebrity headlines are here. Johnny Knoxville played chaos agent in Southern California over the weekend. A "double explosion" was captured on film outside of a dog park by a Simi Valley local, only for social media users to discover that Knoxville was behind the blast. "Apparently people thought a plane had crashed yesterday in Simi Valley," Knoxville said in a @joeknowsventura clip shared online. BAM MARGERA SHREDS ON SKATEBOARD, DEFIES ODDS STACKED AGAINST HIM Johnny Knoxville has been at the helm of "Jackass" since the controversial stunt series debuted on MTV in 2000. (FOX) "Little did they know it was from a monstrous explosion @jemfxpopov created for us for the final day ever of @jackass filming." A large plume of smoke was seen rising behind the hillside where Big Sky Movie Ranch operates just before the