Charlie Sheen to Star in HBO Series About a Bookie

Charlie Sheen will asterisk in an upcoming HBO Max serial publication called “How to Be a Bookie,” Variety leaked on Tuesday.

The show’s Pb histrion will live comedian/actor Sebastian Maniscalco (The Irishman). Variety describes his character, Danny, as “a ex-serviceman bookie who struggles to endure the impending legalization of sports gambling, progressively unstable clients, family, co-workers, and a lifestyle that bounces him around every box of Los Angeles, heights and low.”

Though Variety didn’t specify, it is an extremely safe wager that Sheen testament frolic ace of Danny’s progressively unstable clients. It would live soil that Sheen reportedly knows considerably from personal experience. His 2d wife, Denise Richards, specified inward her 2006 divorce papers that Sheen regularly placed illegal sports bets every weekend — either $20K or $200K per week, depending on which reports you choose to believe. Ivor Armstrong Richards fifty-fifty claimed that Sheen phoned his bookie to come in a wager en route to the hospital for the nativity of their first child, girl Sami, inwards 2004.

According to some reports, Sheen was train to come in an exclusive partnership trade with a sports betting platform. However, that selective information was never substantiated.

Sheen Claims He Quit

In a 2012 interview with the New House of York Times, Sheen claimed to experience presumption upwards his rocking horse after an super remunerative win on the Manny Pacquiao v. Oscar De La Hoya fight back — during which he placed $1M on Pacquaio — elicited no more emotional response.

“I don’t wager anymore,” he told the Times at the time. “I’m a retired gambler. Not a recovering gambler. Big difference.”

Sheen continued: “I’ll allay look at the lines. I’ll be like, ‘Yeah, that’s a blowout, that’s a 40-point blowout. Easy, right?’ I’ll see the game. It’s a 40-point blowout the other way, and i can buoy simply take the air away.

“I don’t feature some dude calling, like, ‘Hey, yeah, so tomorrow, huh?’”

Regardless on whether Sheen of all time gave up sports betting, it didn’t present up on him. At the tallness of his “winning” period, BetUS.com offered betting odds of Sheen getting arrested inwards the next 3 months at 5:6, and of Sheen being institutionalised at 25:1.

Ready for the Insane Part?

The nearly insane detail about How to Be a Bookie is that it testament reunite Sheen with his in public sworn impish enemy. Co-executive producing the serial publication will live Maniscalco, Judi Marmel, Nick Bakay and … waiting for it … Chuck Lorre. Lorre was the co-creator and executive director producer of Three and a Half Men, the TV sitcom Sheen rode to a career comeback inwards the early aughts — including quaternity Emmy nominations.

After CBS and Charles Dudley Warner Bros. Television untimely shut down Season 8 inward 2011 due to Sheen’s increasingly quicksilver(a) doings and media appearances, Sheen told TMZ that Lorre was a “maggot,” a “loser,” and a “stupid, poor fish minuscule man.” Peter Lorre responded by putting to death off Sheen’s graphic symbol and hiring histrion Sir Frederick Ashton Kutcher to pack the serial from Season 9 through its Season 12 finale.

The plaster bandage of “How to Be a Bookie” will also reportedly include Omar J. Dorsey, Andrea Anders, genus Vanessa Ferlito, and Jorge Garcia.

Stay tuned for the over/under on Sheen making it to Episode 8.

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