{"id":288342,"date":"2011-03-03T18:59:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-03T18:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/03\/hugh-laurie-hugh-laurie-takes-over-from-charlie-sheen-as-highest-paid-actor\/"},"modified":"2011-03-03T18:59:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-03T18:59:00","slug":"hugh-laurie-hugh-laurie-takes-over-from-charlie-sheen-as-highest-paid-actor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/03\/hugh-laurie-hugh-laurie-takes-over-from-charlie-sheen-as-highest-paid-actor\/","title":{"rendered":"HUGH LAURIE &#8211; HUGH LAURIE TAKES OVER FROM CHARLIE SHEEN AS HIGHEST PAID ACTOR?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"27\"><!--INFOLINKS_ON--><\/p>\n<p>Hugh Laurie has reportedly become the world&#8217;s highest paid television actor after production on Charlie Sheen&#8217;s &#8216;Two and a Half Men&#8217; was suspended.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nHugh Laurie, the British actor and star of the medical drama &#8216;House&#8217;, has reportedly become the highest paid television actor by default.<br \/>\nBosses at Cbs put production on &#8216;Two and Half Men&#8217; on hold after a series of outbursts from the show&#8217;s leading man, Charlie Sheen. The 45-year-old refers to himself as &#8216;unemployed&#8217; on his new Twitter page biography and according to a report by Robot Celeb, that now makes Laurie the highest earning actor in television. Sheen was reportedly making $1.25 million per episode at &#8216;Two and a Half Men&#8217; and has for several years been regarded as the biggest earner in the business. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Laurie earns around $400,000 per episode or $9 million a year for his work on &#8216;House&#8217;. Csi&#8217;s William Petersen is reported to be on a similar salary but also acts as the show&#8217;s executive producer.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nHugh Laurie hit the headlines earlier this week when he appeared on &#8216;The Ellen Degeneres Show&#8217; claiming to have contracted his first ever &#8216;common cold&#8217;. The 51-year-old said, &#8220;It&#8217;s the first cold of my whole life &#8230; I&#8217;m excited about it because for so many years I believed that I didn&#8217;t get colds because, basically, nothing could live in this body. I was so addled with booze and cigarettes&#8230; but it appears I have curb appeal after all&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><!--INFOLINKS_OFF--><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Here is the original post:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.contactmusic.com\/news.nsf\/story\/hugh-laurie-takes-over-from-charlie-sheen-as-highest-paid-actor_1205253\" title=\"HUGH LAURIE - HUGH LAURIE TAKES OVER FROM CHARLIE SHEEN AS HIGHEST PAID ACTOR?\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HUGH LAURIE &#8211; HUGH LAURIE TAKES OVER FROM CHARLIE SHEEN AS HIGHEST PAID ACTOR?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Hugh Laurie has reportedly become the world&#8217;s highest paid television actor after production on Charlie Sheen&#8217;s &#8216;Two and a Half Men&#8217; was suspended. Hugh Laurie, the British actor and star of the medical drama &#8216;House&#8217;, has reportedly become the highest paid television actor by default. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-288342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>HUGH LAURIE - HUGH LAURIE TAKES OVER FROM CHARLIE SHEEN AS HIGHEST PAID ACTOR? - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/03\/hugh-laurie-hugh-laurie-takes-over-from-charlie-sheen-as-highest-paid-actor\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"HUGH LAURIE - HUGH LAURIE TAKES OVER FROM CHARLIE SHEEN AS HIGHEST PAID ACTOR? - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Hugh Laurie has reportedly become the world&#039;s highest paid television actor after production on Charlie Sheen&#039;s &#039;Two and a Half Men&#039; was suspended. 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