Phillip "Phil" Margera is an American reality television

Reality television

Reality television is a genre of television programming that presents purportedly unscripted dramatic or humorous situations, documents actual events, and usually features ordinary people instead of professional actors, sometimes in a contest or other situation where a prize is awarded...

 personality, best known for appearing on Viva La Bam

Viva La Bam

Viva La Bam is an American reality television series that stars Bam Margera and his friends and family. The show was a spin-off from MTV's Jackass, in which Margera and most of the main cast had appeared...

, the CKY Videos and the Jackass

Jackass (TV series)

jackass is an American reality series, originally shown on MTV from 2000 to 2002, featuring people performing various dangerous, crude, ridiculous, self-injuring stunts and pranks...

television series and movies. He is the father of CKY

CKY (band)

CKY is an American alternative metal band that formed in West Chester, Pennsylvania in 1998. Centred around core members Deron Miller , Chad I Ginsburg and Jess Margera , the band shares its name with a skateboarding and stunt video series produced by Bam Margera, brother of drummer Jess...

 drummer Jess Margera

Jess Margera

Jesse Phillip Margera is the drummer in the band CKY, its predecessor Oil and Foreign Objects, Viking Skull, and The Company Band.-Life and career:...

 and Jackass and professional skateboarder Bam Margera

Bam Margera

Brandon Cole "Bam" Margera is an American professional skateboarder, television and radio personality, actor and daredevil. He released a series of videos under the CKY banner and came to prominence after being drafted into MTV's Jackass crew...

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Life and career

Margera was born July 13, 1957, as the second of seven children of Phillip and Darlene Margera (née Stauffer; October 13, 1939 - June 16, 2007). He was born and raised in Concordville, Pennsylvania, and later moved to West Chester, where he met and married April Margera

April Margera

April Margera is an American reality television personality, best known for her appearances on MTV's Viva La Bam, Jackass, the CKY videos, Minghags: The Movie and Bam's Unholy Union....

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He first appeared on film in the CKY

CKY

CKY may refer to:*CKY , a rock band from Pennsylvania; CKY referring to "Camp Kill Yourself".**CKY , a series of videos released by Bam Margera, named after his brother's band...

 series of films, and it was these appearances that later got featured on Jackass

Jackass (TV series)

jackass is an American reality series, originally shown on MTV from 2000 to 2002, featuring people performing various dangerous, crude, ridiculous, self-injuring stunts and pranks...

. He was also in the main cast of Viva la Bam

Viva La Bam

Viva La Bam is an American reality television series that stars Bam Margera and his friends and family. The show was a spin-off from MTV's Jackass, in which Margera and most of the main cast had appeared...

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On television, Margera is depicted as kind, gentle, easygoing and quiet, whereas his brother Vincent "Don Vito" Margera

Vincent Margera

Vincent Roy Margera , more commonly known as Don Vito, is an American former reality television personality known for his appearances in Viva La Bam, Jackass, Haggard and the CKY videos alongside his nephew Bam...

 is portrayed as loud and obnoxious. Margera has Italian ancestry and worked as a baker

Baker

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 prior to his career in television.

Margera appeared on the second season of Celebrity Fit Club on VH1

VH1

VH1 or Vh1 is an American cable television network based in New York City. Launched on January 1, 1985 in the old space of Turner Broadcasting's short-lived Cable Music Channel, the original purpose of the channel was to build on the success of MTV by playing music videos, but targeting a slightly...

. When Celebrity Fit Club 2 began, he weighed in at 353 pounds (160 kg). He lost the most weight on the show, losing a total of 41 pounds (18 kg), down to 312 pounds (142 kg). In season 4, both BoneCrusher

BoneCrusher

Wayne Hardnett, Jr. , better known by his stage name Bone Crusher, is an American rapper/singer based in Atlanta. After working as part of the group Lyrical Giants, he debuted in 2003 with his first solo album AttenCHUN!, which featured the single "Never Scared", used as the theme for the 2003...

 and Tina Yothers

Tina Yothers

Kristina Louise "Tina" Yothers is an American actress and singer. Beginning a career as a child actor at the age of 8, she is perhaps best known for her role as Jennifer Keaton on the hit NBC series Family Ties, as well as for her roles in numerous television films throughout the 1980s and early...

 beat Margera's record, losing 51 and 42 lbs (23 and 19 kg) respectively. During a weigh-in on the show, Margera stated his reason for losing weight was to extend his life in order to spend more time with his granddaughter, Ava.
He also appeared in the video game Tony Hawk's Underground 2

Tony Hawk's Underground 2

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, in which he joins Tony and Bam's crew on the World Destruction Tour wearing nothing but underwear and dress socks

Dress socks

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