After Charlie Sheen, Les Moonves thinks that the Angus T. Jones controversy is a “piece of cake.” Still, the CBS exec admitted that Jones’ future on the show is still unclear.
“I don’t know what our status is with him,” the CBS Corp. president and CEO said yesterday at The Wall Street Journal Viewpoints event. “We took this boy who started with us when he was eight years old, and it seemed to be what happens with child stars over the course of time.”
Jones filmed a now-viral video where he said his show “Two and a Half Men” is “filth” and urged viewers not to watch. He later apologized for “disrespecting” his colleagues.
Moonves continued in the interview, ”He’s now making $300,000 per week which is not a bad salary for a 19-year-old kid, and he went on a religious channel and urged people not to watch the show because it was filth. By the way, he’s still collecting his $300,000 a week.”
When asked about the sitcom without the “half man,” Moonves replied how “other plans” are in the works.
“I don’t think it’s quite been resolved, but after going through what we went through with Charlie Sheen, this is a piece of cake,” he said in light of Sheen’s infamous meltdown that caused his exit from the show in 2011.
Sheen defended Jones recently, saying the young actor is going through an “emotional tsunami” and believes the show’s creator Chuck Lorre is to blame.