Jason Ellis

Jason Shane Ellis, born on 11 October 1971, is an Australian radio personality best known as the host of The Jason Ellis Show on SiriusXM satellite radio, which aired from 2005 to 2020, and is also a former professional skateboarder, auto racer and singer. He moved to the United States at seventeen to start a professional skateboarding career, which began in 1985, and retired from the sport in 2006. In 2001 he set a Guinness World Record for the biggest drop on a skateboard by jumping into a 70 foot ramp, a record broken by Danny Way in 2006. One of the six Big Air competitors to compete in both 2004 and 2005, he was suffering a concussion in 2005 and finished tenth overall without making the final, and he has performed skate demos with Tony Hawk.