But Twitter's most popular Hollywood star is now being lined up to star in the biggest sitcom on US television as the replacement for Charlie Sheen in Two and a Half Men. Kutcher appeared to confirm the answer to one of the most speculated over questions in showbiz on Friday — who will replace Sheen following his all-too-public meltdown — with a Twitter message hinting at his role as the popular comedy's new lead man.
The answer — 2. Kutcher, who is married to the Ghost star Demi Moore, is widely expected to be unveiled as the show's new lead man as early as Wednesday, when CBS parades its new programming schedule in a glitzy presentation before advertisers in New York. Sheen's abrupt departure from the popular prime-time comedy in March prompted weeks of frenzied speculation over his replacement. Hugh Grant was reported to have pulled out of 11th-hour negotiations over "creative differences".
While some actors amp up their personalities when cast as spoofs of themselves -- take Matt LeBlanc on Showtime's "Episodes," for instance -- Sheen actually had to tone down his persona for "Two and a Half Men. Charlie Harper may have drank too much and been a bit too cavalier with women, but he was never accused of, say, going on a drunken rampage through the Plaza Hotel or physically abusing an adult film star who refused to have sex with him.
Kutcher isn't as much of a wildcard as Sheen. Though he displayed a year-old's sense of humor with "Punk'd," the MTV show that chronicled the pranks he played on the rich and famous, he won professional success as the executive producer of "Punk'd" and the reality show "Beauty and the Geek. Kutcher, 33, has been married to Demi Moore , 48, for almost six years. He's settled. Sheen is not. That said, Kutcher has a colorful enough personal life that some of it could bleed into his character.
Will he play the cougar-chasing cousin of Jon Cryer's Alan Harper? Angus T. Jones later left amid more high-profile criticism of Two and a Half Men after season 10, leaving just Kutcher and Cryer for the final two seasons.
The former That '70s Show star's transition also led some to observe a shift in tone over the final four seasons of Two and a Half Men. Highlights with "Walden Schmidt" included his close friendship with much of the cast, his short-lived marriage to "Alan," and the pair's adoption of "Louis" in season Kutcher remained with the show through its season 12 finale , which aired in For all the "Walden" fans out there.
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