We never thought it would happen ... Italian hottie Elisabetta Canalis has brought her boy toy Steve-O back to the homeland to visit her parents!

Seriously?!

The MTV hostess with the mostess has certainly taken a step down after dating George Clooney. I mean how can a girl feel going from an Oscar nominee to a Jackass?

Rumors have circled certain celebs for months, but now ABC has revealed the Season 8 stars who will compete for the mirror ball trophy!

Here's the list:

Denise Richards, Lil Kim, Steve-O, Jewel, Ty Murray, Go-Go Belinda Carlisle, David Alan Grier, Nancy O'Dell, NFL linebacker Lawrence Taylor, Olympian Shawn Johnson, SATC stud Gilles Marini, Apple Computer's Steve Wozniak and singer/songwriter Chuck Wicks.

Sadly, no K-Fed!

Forget what you know about the classy world of ballroom dancing...

Steve-O has been confirmed as one of the contestants on the upcoming season of Dancing With The Stars, according to OK! Magazine.

“Steve-O is taking his dancing very seriously,” a source tells OK!. “He’s committed to leading a healthy, wholesome life, and that includes mastering the classic moves of dance!”

Funny how "healthy" and "wholesome" aren't words we'd normally use when talking about Steve-O!

Do you think he's changed his jackass ways?!?

Getting clean certainly doesn't come easy - just ask Steve-O!

In his latest MySpace blog, the recovering claims to have been committed to a mental institution. "I did so much cocaine, ketamine, pcp, nitrous oxide, and all sorts of other drugs that, quite simply, my brain is f**ked up," he wrote. "I'm back in the looney bin trying to get that s**t right."

Fortunately, Steve-O's hardly been laboring in vain - he claims to have stayed sober for 115 days! And, more importantly, it sounds like he's got the right attitude for recovery, candidly admitting that "doing drugs f**ked my a** up and I'm going to be paying for it for a long time, probably for the rest of my life."

Good luck, Steve-O - the battle against addiction may last a lifetime, but it's one well worth fighting!

It sure looks like sobriety's doing Steve-O a world of good - after court this morning, the former danger addict was waxing philosophical!

Steve-O touched on pretty much every subject under the sun: other dimensions, the end of the world, life in a halfway house - even his wrinkly shirt! Mostly, though, Steve-O spoke with surprising candor about his newfound sense of responsibility, going so far as to claim that he wouldn't even mind if this charge stayed on his record. Good thing his lawyer Barry Sands was there to set him straight on that point!

How packed was the Maxim 100 Party last night? Just take one look at this massive guest list:

*deep breath*

Deana Brewster, Amanda Beard, Masi Oka, Ashley Green, Bai Ling, Nikki Sixx, Kat Von D, Amanda Bynes, Travis Barker and Shanna Moakler, Caroline D'Amore, Evan Ross, Joe Francis, J.C. Chasez, Laura Prepon, Audrina Patridge, Tila Tequila, Ian Ziering, Steve-O (clean and sober, too!), Stacy Kiebler, Vida Guerra, Megan Good, Bill Maher, Chris Reid, Nick Lachey (who was flying solo), My Name is Earl's Nadine Velasquez, Corey Hart, Chris Evans, Tracy Bingham, Claudia Jordan, Nicole Scherzinger, Christina Milian, Travis Barker, Brody Jenner and Frankie Delgado.

(Also in attendance was Marisa Miller - but then again, after the love Maxim showed her a few weeks ago, coming to their shindig is probably the least she could do!)

Seriously - if there'd been any more stars present, there wouldn't be any left to light up the night sky! Check out the video below...

Our favorite Jackass, Steve-O showed up to his preliminary hearing yesterday morning with his attorney Barry Gerald Sands, where the actor plead "not guilty" to felony drug charges stemming from a March 3rd arrest.

Even though Steve-O, who donned a blue button-down for court, has cleaned up his act, he still kept his sense of humor as he left the hearing, offering to whistle for the camera out of the hole in his nose (presumably from all the drugs,) and plugged his bail bondsman.

Boasting "64 days" of sobriety, Steve-O told us that he used to think "sex, drugs and rock 'n roll was a good thing," but he's "not running away" from his problems anymore.

Steve-O, who says he's "fighting for his life", was overwhelmed with all the support from his friends and fans, and plans on continuing to encounter his problems head-on.

It's nice to see that Steve-O is taking these issues seriously (but still keeping a sense of humor about himself), and we wish him the best of luck!

Lots of Jackass fans have joked around about whether Steve-O might have a death wish - but those jokes sure seem a lot less funny now!

Star Magazine is reporting that on Sunday, the actor - real name Steven Glover - was checked into the Thalians Mental Health Center (known for its crisis management facilities) for a mandatory 72-hour hold, which was later expanded to a gigantic fourteen day stay.

An insider told Star that Glover has been stabilized on meds. Worryingly, the source also revealed that the actor was also being treated for burns all over his skin "as if he had been putting cigarettes out all over his body."

Apparently, the situation started when Glover started sending out suicidal emails over the weekend, pinning the blame for his state on a failed attempt at romance. "Steve started flipping out," another source told the mag. "He told doctors he wanted to hurt himself badly. He wanted to break every bone in his body one by one."

The Star reports that, in the last few days, Glover's family has come forward to admit that the troubled actor suffers from bipolar disorder which, to date, has gone untreated. We're sure this sad series of events will put an end to that oversight!

"Right now he's in his extreme mania," a Glover family member said. "His concerned friends and family are hoping he'll seek treatment. He doesn't need jail, he needs therapy. We're just really hoping that this will be the wake-up call that gets him back to himself."