What Happened to Jason 'Wee Man' Acuña? A Last Wild Ride in 2026

If you owned a TV in the early 2000s, you knew Wee Man. He was the grinning, fearless little powerhouse on MTV’s “Jackass” who would skateboard off anything, take a hit for a laugh, and somehow walk away smiling. For more than two decades, Jason “Wee Man” Acuña has been one of the most beloved members of the most chaotic crew in television history. Now, with the franchise’s fifth and final film hitting theaters in 2026, a lot of fans are asking the same thing: whatever happened to Wee Man? Here’s where he is today.

01Profile

Full name

Jason Shannon Acuña

Born

May 16, 1973 (53 years old)

Birthplace

Pisa, Italy (raised in Torrance, California)

Occupation

TV personality, professional skateboarder, actor, restaurateur

Best known for

"Jackass" (2000) and the Jackass film series

Stage name

"Wee Man," a nickname that stuck from his skateboarding days

A quick, important note: Acuña has achondroplasia, the most common form of dwarfism, and stands about four feet tall. He has spent his whole career being matter-of-fact about it, and so will we — he is one of the most physically daring performers of his generation, full stop. The nickname came from skateboarding, and he’s owned it with humor and zero self-pity ever since.

02The Rise: From Skate Mag to MTV Stardom

A kid who lived to skate

Long before the cameras, Acuña was simply a Southern California kid obsessed with skateboarding. He grew up in Torrance, fell in love with the sport, and got good — good enough to turn pro. Skating culture in the 1990s prized fearlessness and personality over polish, and Acuña had both in abundance. That world would end up being his ticket to fame in the most roundabout way imaginable.

The Big Brother connection

In the late ’90s, Acuña took a job as a subscription manager at “Big Brother,” the irreverent skateboarding magazine known for its outrageous stunts and pranks. That magazine was the creative petri dish that produced Johnny Knoxville, director Jeff Tremaine, and the loose collective of daredevils who would soon become “Jackass.” When the crew started filming their stunts, Acuña was right there — and the camera loved him.

His combination of genuine skateboarding skill, a total lack of fear, and an infectious laugh made him an instant fan favorite. When “Jackass” debuted on MTV in 2000, Wee Man wasn’t a sidekick. He was a star.

03The Jackass Years

The MTV series only ran from 2000 to 2001, but its cultural impact was enormous. “Jackass” turned a group of friends hurting themselves on camera into a genuine phenomenon, and it launched a film franchise that has now spanned a quarter of a century.

• 2000"Jackass" premieres on MTV. Acuña, billed as Wee Man, becomes one of the breakout members of the cast.
• 2002"Jackass: The Movie" hits theaters and becomes a surprise box-office hit, proving the crew could carry a feature film.
• 2006"Jackass Number Two" raises the stakes — and the budget — with even bigger, more elaborate stunts.
• 2007–2008Acuña branches into solo TV: hosting MTV's "Scarred" and competing on "Celebrity Circus," where he reportedly becomes the first contestant to earn a perfect score.
• 2010"Jackass 3D" arrives, embracing the era's 3D craze and grossing well north of $100 million worldwide.
• 2022After a long gap, "Jackass Forever" reunites the original crew. Wee Man returns, older but no less game.

What made Wee Man different from a lot of stunt performers was that his bits were never about his size as a punchline. He was the guy doing kickflips, taking the hits, and matching his much larger castmates blow for blow. If anything, fans rooted harder for him precisely because he refused to be treated as fragile. That reputation — fearless, funny, fundamentally decent — is what carried him through more than 25 years of one of the most physically punishing jobs in entertainment.

04Building a Life Beyond the Stunts

Like every member of the crew, Acuña understood that you can’t fall off ramps forever. Over the years he quietly built a life away from the cameras, and food turned out to be his second act.

The restaurant business

Acuña became an investor and franchisee with Chronic Tacos, a fast-casual Mexican chain. He opened his first location in Redondo Beach, California, around 2010. That first venture didn’t pan out and eventually closed, but he didn’t give up on the idea — in February 2018 he opened a new Chronic Tacos franchise in Long Beach. The restaurant work gave him something the stunts never could: a steady, grounded business he could put his name and energy behind.

A road back to his roots

Acuña was born in Pisa, Italy, and over the years he has spoken about his connection to the country. In recent times he has spent stretches of life there, reconnecting with the place where his story began. It’s a fitting wrinkle for a guy whose whole career has been about doing the unexpected.

“I love what I do. I get to skate, I get to make people laugh, and I get to do it with my best friends. How many people can say that?” — Jason Acuña, reflecting on his Jackass career in interviews

05What He Is Doing Now

The final Jackass film

The big news of 2026 is “Jackass: Best and Last,” billed as the fifth and final main installment in the film series. It opened in most of Europe on June 25, 2026, and in the United States on June 26, 2026. Directed once again by Jeff Tremaine, the film brings back the core crew — Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O, Chris Pontius, Preston Lacy, Dave England, “Danger” Ehren McGhehey, and, of course, Jason “Wee Man” Acuña — for one last run. It mixes brand-new stunts with greatest-hits footage, and reportedly even unearths long-banned material from the original MTV era.

Knoxville has framed it as the natural place to end things, calling the franchise’s quarter-century run a celebration of friendship as much as stunts. Critics have largely treated it as a fond, surprisingly emotional victory lap rather than just another round of pranks.

Still the heart of the crew

Wee Man’s contribution to the finale was pure Wee Man. According to reporting around the film, the final shoot ended with a massive explosion — and Acuña capped the franchise’s last big moment with a fart joke, later jumping into the comments on Knoxville’s Instagram post to write, “Haha I farted!!!!” After 25 years, the man is still bringing the crew full circle to its potty-humor roots, and clearly still having the time of his life.

In the lead-up to the release, Acuña was front and center on the promo trail. On June 6, 2026, he joined Steve-O, Poopies, and Jasper Dolphin on an IGN livestream to hype the movie, and he took part in a Jackass marathon event alongside Knoxville, Preston Lacy, Dave England, and Tremaine. Decades in, he’s still one of the most enthusiastic ambassadors the franchise has.

Online and engaged

Acuña stays active and accessible to fans on social media, where he’s verified on both Instagram and X under the handle @iamweeman, with a following in the seven figures. Between film promotion, his restaurant ventures, and his ongoing love of skateboarding, he has built exactly the kind of life that the early-2000s Wee Man would have wanted: doing what he loves, on his own terms, with the same friends he started with.

06Summary

Some reality-TV stars burn out and disappear. Wee Man did the opposite — he turned a skate-mag job into a 25-year career, survived one of the most dangerous gigs in show business, and came out the other side beloved, busy, and still laughing.

Twenty-five years after he first rolled in front of an MTV camera, Jason “Wee Man” Acuña is closing out the Jackass era the only way he knows how — fearless, funny, and grinning ear to ear. Not a bad place to end up at all.