Jackass star spreads his wings

Jackass star Johnny Knoxville is distancing himself from his knockabout MTV origins and trying to reinvent himself as a leading man by joining The Rock - alias Dwayne Johnson – in the drama Walking Tall.

Sources say Knoxville will be paid a career-best €4.2m for his role as a sheriff’s deputy who helps The Rock’s character stand up to local roughnecks.