Charlie Sheen’s character won’t be killed off in Two and a Half Men

Producers' departure plan for Charlie Sheen means that everyone's favourite bad boy and self-proclaimed 'Winner' could return to Two and a Half Men.

When tiger-blood loving, big-tweeting, hell-raising actor Charlie Sheen was fired from the show which had made him the highest-paid TV actor after a public spat with the show's creator Chuck Lorre, it marked the end of a long and sometimes tempestuous relationship.

It was subsequently announced that Ashton Kutcher would be replacing Sheen's character of Charlie Harper, joining cast members Jon Cryer and Angus T. Jones and ensuring that the show didn't need to be renamed One and a Half Men.

But what was not explained at the time of either the Sheen firing or the Kutcher hiring was how the transition would be made and, in particular, how Sheen would be written out.

Well, according to reports, the show's viewers will be led to believe that Charlie has jetted off and relocated in Paris.

Producers plan to use Sheen's final scenes as Charlie Harper, in which he is seen leaving for the airport with his stalker Rose, to explain the character's absence from the next series.

It's a neat way of tying up the loose ends in a fairly credible way... and, of course, it leaves open the possibility of a return by the show's biggest star and biggest draw should his absence be more sharply felt that the producers hope.

The new season of Two and a Half Men is due to air later this year.