The Charlie Sheen saga has just taken another nasty turn and this time there is not even a glimmer of winning involved. The top rated sitcom in America has just dumped its former superstar.
Warner Bros issued the following statement: “After careful consideration, Warner Bros. Television has terminated Charlie Sheen’s services on Two and a Half Men, effective immediately.” No decision has been made on the future of the series.
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to guess that Sheen’s Korner UStream Episode 1 and Episode 2 likely forced the hand of executives who were hanging on the fence while watching their sitcom star flailing in the breeze, with reckless abandon, during his two week media blitz.
Charlie called it “very good news” and added: “They continue to be in breach, like so many whales. It is a big day of gladness at the Sober Valley Lodge because now I never have to put on those silly shirts for as long as this warlock exists in the terrestrial dimension.”
Sheen’s latest tweet came shortly after news of his termination: “fastball; Cuban, a mad genius, proclaimed every brain cell in his Warlock brain 2 B a weapon of mass destruction. U’ve been warned; by him.”
He plans to air Episode 3 of his UStream show tonight. We’re afraid to think what might be in store…
Warner Bros. detailed the multiple reasons for terminating Charlie in an 11-page termination letter addressed to Martin D. Singer, Sheen’s attorney: “Let us state the obvious: Charlie Sheen has been engaged in dangerously self-destructive conduct and appears to be very ill. His erratic behavior has escalated while his condition has deteriorated.”
Read the entire 11-page document here.
One last look at the guy in the silly shirt below:
Photos: WENN; CBS