Last night Ashton Kutcher Tweeted, "What's the square root of 6.25?" (A: 2 ½.) Turns out this was a clue, tipping fans off to what's all over the rags today: he's replaced Charlie Sheen in Two And A Half Men (the CBS show Sheen was fired from after overdosing on his own ego). Earlier yesterday Kutcher seemed to be attempting to throw a wrench in the rumor mill, Tweeting, "I'm starting to become convinced that people put my name in articles just to improve their SEO or hoping I'll tweet it." (He later deleted that.)
As of today, the deal is done, and TMZ reports that Kutcher will be earning less than Sheen's $2.5 million per episode (noting it will be more than $625,000, but less than $900,000).
During Sheen's unraveling, he trashed the show's creator Chuck Lorre numerous times, at one point declaring: "My fans may tune in for a minute, but at the end of the day, no one cares about your feeble show without me." News of Kutcher coming on board, however, has people asking, "Who's winning now?" (A: Not Sheen.)
