11th August, 2008
John Edwards to replace Charlie Sheen on Two and a Half Men
Wondering what's going to happen to John Edwards now that he admitted he cheated on his cancer stricken wife in 2006? He's going to CBS on Monday nights!
Dateline Hollywood has learned that the ex-presidential candidate is the surprising choice to replace "Two and a Half Men" star Charlie Sheen, who just announced he will be leaving the hit CBS sitcom at the end of this season.
"It was crucial that we find another star well known to audiences for using women to feed his ravenous and oversized ego, but who can also believably deliver punchlines that turn him into a lovable cad," said CBS entertainment president Nancy Tellem. "After Charlie Sheen, I can't think of anyone who better fits that description than John Edwards."
The ex-North Carolina senator will play John Harper, Sheen and co-star Jon Cryer's long lost third brother who was adopted as a bouncing baby by a North Carolina mill worker and his wife. After discovering the brothers he never knew he had, Edwards' character will move into the room vacated by Sheen's character when he moves to New York to compose a Broadway musical based on the film "Cliffhanger."
"As the son of a mill worker, I never thought I would one day have the chance to follow in the footsteps of Charlie Sheen in a CBS Monday night sitcom," Edwards said in a statement. "I also look forward to taking over Charlie's role as the most notoriously loutish serial womanizer in all of Hollywood. "
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