Warner Bros. officially fires Charlie Sheen from “Two and a Half Men”

(HMG Celebrity News) – Forget about negotiations or dangling carrot of rehab to allow him to return, Charlie Sheen is no longer welcome to return to “Two and a Half Men.”   Warner Bros. has issued the following statement: “After careful consideration, Warner Bros. Television has terminated Charlie Sheen’s services on ‘Two and a Half Men,’ effective immediately.”

Sheen has been promising to take legal action against the studio ever since Warner Bros. TV and CBS made the decision to shut down the show for the rest of this season on Feb. 24 because of the actor’s increasingly erratic behavior and hard-partying lifestyle.  Sheen had another season to go on his contract with the studio for the CBS sitcom.

Reps for Warner Bros. tell Variety that no decision has been made on whether the show will come back without him.  I kind of think they might try to go on without him?

Update: So here is how the legal battle shapes up. Warner Bros. sent an 11 page letter to Charlie Sheen’s lawyer Marty Singer, stating Charlie was being terminated because he committed a felony involving “moral turpitude,” and there is a clause in his contract saying they can fire a performer for that reason.  The letter obtained by TMZ also says, “There is ample evidence supporting Warner Bros. reasonable good faith opinion that Mr. Sheen has committed felony offenses involving moral turpitude (including but not limited to furnishing of cocaine to others as part of the self-destructive lifestyle he has described publicly) that have ‘interfere[d] with his ability to fully and completely render all material services required’ under the agreement.” The letter then goes on to describe Charlie’s hijinks, including trashing the Plaza Hotel in NYC, coke binges, on-set failures because of drug fatigue, and diatribes against “Two and a Half Men” creator Chuck Lorre.  The letter also notes that Charlie derailed production when he went into rehab, and then he fired his sobriety coach. In fact, Warner Bros. claims it was so concerned about Charlie’s well-being, “Warner Bros. had an airplane waiting” to take him to a treatment facility … but Charlie would have none of it.  Of course Charlie and his lawyer are now going to sue Warner Bros. for millions of dollars claiming the firing is unjustified.