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Charlie Sheen's 'Two and a Half Men' Character Will Be Killed Off Just how will Charlie Sheen's 'Two and a Half Men' character exit the hit CBS sitcom? According to reports, he's kicking the bucket.

The script has yet to be finalized, but sources have told TMZ Sheen's Charlie Harper will be written off in a way preventing the actor from ever returning to the series. One situation involves the character driving his car off a cliff. While filming won't being until August, the current plan is to have Ashton Kutcher's character buy Charlie Harper's home. Sheen is reportedly eying a return to sitcoms outside of CBS and 'Two and a Half Men.' RadarOnline's report indicated a deal with TBS, however according to USA. Today, TBS has denied the reports. Radar quotes a source as saying Sheen's new character "will be very similar to the one he played on Two And a Half Men, however the show will be a lot racier."

Charlie Sheen TBS MESSAGE: WE DON’T WANT THAT IDIOT. OMG! Charlie Sheen has lost it all and didn’t we almost have it all? When love was all we had worth giving? Now former CBS hunk and 9/11 conspiracy theorist needs a new home and knocked on the door of TBS and they slammed it in his face, faster than he could say: “Georgie Girl ain’t got no teeth.”

Ashton Kutcher has taken Sheen’s place on TWO AND A HALF MEN, leaving Sheen without a show, and there is the rumor that they are killing off his character. OMG! Don’t burn that bridge girls. Don’t burn that bridge. Sheen has shown that he can draw a crowd and I loved, loved, loved his stage show. He was so sexy and even wanted to pay my Georgie Girl to be one of his goddesses, but he had a job at Wal-Mart to begin and couldn’t go on the road. Besides, I don’t want my Georgie Girl making out with Sheen. Stupid toothless idiot is my man!

I think that TBS should take Sheen aboard! He brings people! And they suck anyway and could use a good show. They could stop putting “very funny” in every promo, trying to convince their audience that they have funny shows. And stop with those Fasaing laugh tracks you idiots.

I reached out to RSR World and got a record 456,249 emails in 2 hours about this topic. Here is just a sampling:

“You have NO clue about what Sheen does with proceeds for my show. TBS is the way most actors sell their show Einstein. I don’t expect for many of the people in The Philippines to buy it, but just in case you didn’t know… many people are living in AMERICA. I have nothing but respect for people, you don’t even know me and you come at me with this bull? You are worse than what you claim I am, because you have never met me, you have no idea what I do with underprivledged kids in my community, what I do for cancer patients in my community, or anything that I do in my personal life, so for you to spew some bullcrap at me like you just did, is comical to me at best.” – Jack Mars

“If I were TBS, I would shout: We don’t want that idiot! F him. He’s a druggie, loser, piece of crap, stupid, horse’s ass, IDIOT, useless, and I have his torpedo of truth if he ever comes to my bedroom.” – Martin Imposter. “I like Sheen. He’s almost as inspirational as my two idols: Don Gorske and Steve Farhood. Hey, here’s a pitch: Don Gorske, Sheen, and Steve Farhood in a sitcom together!!! TBS call me! You can have that idea for free!   Come on! Call me!”—Jim Minkle.

By: Anthony Santiago

Charlie Sheen’s ‘Men’ character to perish?; Shia LaBeouf got the Megan Fox hook-up Charlie Sheen in happier days, when Charlie Harper did not appear to be marked for death. (Mario Anzuoni - Reuters)

Charlie Sheen’s “Two and a Half Men” character, Charlie Harper, reportedly might be killed off on the show. One scenario being considered: Harper will have driven his car off a cliff and died in an accident. In other Sheen news, TBS is denying rumors that he has made a deal to appear in a new sitcom on the cable network. (The Hollywood Reporter) Shia LaBeouf confirms in Details interview that he hooked up with Megan Fox. When the reporter asked whether she was seeing Brian Austin Green - now her husband - at the time, LaBeouf said, “‘I don’t know, man. I don’t know. I don’t know. I don’t know. repeating the phrase exactly 12 times with various intonations, as if trying to get it just right.” (Details)

Who are the sexiest vegetarian celebrities of 2011, according to PETA? Kristen Wiig and Russell Brand , of course! (PETA)

Jerry Seinfeld blows off a complaint from a “Marriage Ref” contestant who blames the show and “Seinfeld” for his divorce. “When people get upset I enjoy it,” Seinfeld said. “That he’s having problems, and blaming me, it’s all - anything that alleviates the withering, blithering boredom of existence I’m in favor of.” (New York Daily News)

Julie Benz, who played Rita on “Dexter,” is engaged. She will marry marketing executive Rich Orosco, who proposed during a surprise party at their L.A. home. (E! Online)

Anne Hathaway feels good about the whole Oscar hosting thing, and a teaser for a new Pixar movie will make you feel very Scottish, after the jump. Anne Hathaway doesn’t see a downside to her experience as Oscar host. “Anyone who disliked my personality probably disliked my personality before the Oscars,” she tells Harper’s Bazaaar. (Zap2It)

Nicole Kidman may replace Sofia Vergara in the Lee Daniels movie “The Paperboy.” (Vulture) January Jones had a baby shower on the beach over the weekend. “Mad Men” co-star Christina Hendricks was in attendance. (People) Let’s forget all this discussion about “ Toy Story 4 ” for a moment and just watch the trailer for the upcoming Pixar feature.

By: Jen Chaney

News Today in Charlie Sheen. Charlie Sheen, down to zero Goddesses according to celebrity suck-up show reports, and no longer the hottest guest booking on the late night show circuit, now has leisure time to focus on finding out whether he still has a career.

Rumor has it the sacked “Two and a Half Men” star has gotten together with Lionsgate, producer of “Mad Men” and other shows, to pitch a sitcom starring Sheen. Celebrity site Radar says there’s a bidding war going on for the Sheen project, citing an unnamed insider, though networks named in the report – particularly alleged frontrunner TBS, deny it. Lionsgate, meanwhile, has been declining to comment since the report came out.

Competing celebrity watch site TMZ also has been trying to squeeze the last drop out of the Sheen Web-traffic sponge – going back to its unnamed sources who fed it a tip that “Men” creator Chuck Lorre would set the tone to welcome his Sheen replacement Ashton Kutcher by having Sheen’s Charlie Harper killed in a car crash – driving off a cliff to be specific. And hilarity ensues.

By: Lisa de Moraes

In a report based on unnamed sources, TMZ say when Natalie Kenly moved out last week, Charlie demanded that she return the Mercedes-Benz that he had given her. Kenly was one of two girlfriends who stood by Sheen when he watched his career crumble after being fired from CBS' Two and a Half Men.

It was only a few months ago that Sheen reportedly went on a Mercedes-buying binge for his bevy of beauties, spending a reported $800,000 on four of the exotic cars. Back then, he was still a working TV actor pulling down millions a year. Now, money is a bit tighter and buying four Mercedes-Benzes for girlfriends is probably no longer in the cards.

Yo-yo dieter Kirstie Alley's determined to reclaim that bikini-worthy bod she strutted just two years ago, telling Oprah Winfrey she intends to shed 80 pounds by November - and blaming her newly pudgy shape on a lack of motivation. The 58-year old ex-Cheers actress's highly publicized chronic battle against obesity is far from unique. "About 95 percent of people regain the weight they have lost in less than a year," says psychotherapist Stefanie Barthmare of the Methodist Weight Management Center in Houston. "People who want to lose weight come in with such fierce determination and commitment in the early stages, but they are more committed to losing weight than to a new lifestyle. The motivation to diet only lasts for a limited period."

Alley, a former Jenny Craig spokeswoman whose weight has long fluctuated, told Winfrey, "I just said, I'm going to cut myself some slack. Big mistake." In 2007, she shared a People magazine cover with another former fatty, Valerie Bertinelli, looking gorgeous in a floor-length blue gown.

Oprah-Kirstie Alley's Weight Struggle This time around, Kirstie's proposing a six-month timeline to get herself in shape. "By November, I have to look ripped," she says.

Oprah says she's learned over the years that setting a specific time limit on weight loss can hurt the end result. "I want you to do in in your own time," Oprah tells Kirstie. "Do it in a way that's going to be good for you. I don't want you on national television setting yourself up for November. ... I know what happens when you set that goal for yourself. Then you go home and eat for a month trying to make yourself feel better

Note Oprah's own moment Stedman's note inspired the dream Oprah Winfrey arrived on cable this weekend at long last. And I do mean long. When I interviewed Oprah in her Chicago office a few months ago, she pulled a piece of paper out of her desk drawer. It was a note, scrawled in pencil, that Stedman Graham, her boyfriend, wrote to her when they were on vacation together in April 1992.

Oprah had never shared the note with the media, and she declined to let me share the full content with you. (Yes, I asked). But as we sat there and talked about the origin of OWN, she let me read the letter and scrawl my own notes. So, here is at least part of what Stedman Graham wrote to Oprah that important day nearly 19 years ago:

"How does Oprah position herself in the next decade? OWN. That's right. OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network....This is God's way and Oprah's vision..." Granted, people like you and I don't plot media empires on our vacations. Then again, we are not Oprah. Stedman's idea inspired her, and at the bottom of that piece of paper, she wrote that the goal of OWN "will be to create mindful rather than mindless programming." Then she sat on the idea for 15 years. It took another passionate persuader, Discovery Communication (DISCA) CEO David Zaslav, to come along in the spring of 2007 and offer Oprah the proper incentive to act on her dream.

In "Oprah's Next Act," my recent Fortune cover story, Oprah talks about agreeing to co-create a cable TV network with Zaslav ("I don't want your money," he told her. "I want you.") and then feeling so terrified of her commitment that she practically backed out of the venture. But she didn't. And finally, we have OWN, which isn't as easy to find as The Oprah Winfrey Show, which will stay on broadcast TV until this coming September. (OWN, which replaced Discovery Health across the U.S., is Channel 115 on Time Warner Cable in Manhattan and Channel 219 in Los Angeles.) The first TV network built around one human being, it is the grandest experiment yet in the personalization of media and Oprah's biggest risk in her career.

By: Patricia Sellers

Oprah’s goal for OWN ‘I have a dream of O.J. Simpson confessing to me’ (Paul Beaty/AP) - Oprah Winfrey talks with Paula Zahn at the National Cable & Telecommunications Association's Cable Show 2011. Oprah Winfrey wants to interview O.J. Simpson on the Oprah Winfrey Network to help put the network on the ratings map — on the condition that he promises to use the opportunity to say he killed his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson.

“I have a dream of O.J. Simpson confessing to me,” Winfrey told an enthusiastic crowd of cable industry suits attending the National Cable & Telecommunications Association convention in Chicago, according to news media reports. “And I am going to make that happen, people. I don’t just want the interview. I want the interview on the condition that you are ready, Mr. Simpson,” she added. Oprah’s announcement was by way of demonstrating to the cable guys that she is now committed “full energy, feet first, body immersed” to “the OWN mission,” the reports said. OWN — a joint venture between Oprah and Silver Spring-based Discovery Communications — has struggled to find an audience since its launch in January. Last month, the network’s top programming exec, Christina Norman, exited amid reports about the net’s ratings challenges.

Oprah acknowledged Thursday that the launch has been harder than she expected. That’s partly because she had little energy to focus on the kickoff, she explained, while focusing so much attention on the final season of her long-running syndicated talk show. “I’d probably do it differently,” she said of the simultaneous launch and sign-off. Paula Zahn, who hosts a show on Discovery’s Investigation network — and who interviewed Oprah during her appearance at the convention — wondered why Oprah thought that Simpson would agree to the interview and its terms given that Simpson was found not guilty by a jury in the 1994 stabbing deaths of his ex-wife and her friend Ron Goldman. Oprah cited a photo she saw recently of a little Oprah, growing up in poverty in Mississippi. “The fact that that baby girl from a shotgun house in Mississippi can get to the OWN network means that the O.J. Simpson interview is possible,” she responded.

Zahn wondered whether Oprah thought the network could reach its full potential within five years, media outlets reported. Oprah said it would take only three. “I have committed everything I have to this cable venture,” Oprah said without being specific as to what that meant. “I wouldn’t bet against me.”

By: Lisa de Moraes

Celebrity Trends Oprah Hasn't Landed O.J. Simpson Confession-Yet A Harpo rep tells THR online rumors are "not true." Oprah Winfrey hasn't landed that confession from O.J. Simpson -- yet. our editor recommends Oprah Winfrey Determined to Land O.J. Simpson Confession. Oprah's Farewell Spectacular - Live Blog From Chicago!

Despite a National Enquirer report that Simpson confessed from prison to murdering ex wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman, a rep for Harpo tells The Hollywood Reporter, "That's not true." PHOTOS: Oprah Through the Years Oprah has said she's determined to get Simpson's confession. He was acquitted or the murders in 1995. STORY: Discovery Communications CEO: Judge Success of Oprah's OWN Over 2-3 Years.

Speaking at NCTA’s annual Cable Show in Chicago last week, she said, "I have a dream of O.J. Simpson confessing to me" as the audience cheered. "And I am going to make that happen people," she promised, admitting it was "not that lofty" of a goal. VIDEO: Memorable Oprah Winfrey Show moments “I don’t just want the interview,” Oprah continued. “I want the interview on the condition that you are ready, Mr. Simpson.”

Her follow-up show, Oprah's Next Chapter, premieres on OWN in January. Simpson was reportedly going to admit to the murders in a book called "If I Did It…." After the book sparked outrage, HarperCollins cancelled the plans and publisher Judith Regan was forced out later that year.

By: Lindsay