A child star, a teenager with over 15 million dollars in his bank account and an unexpected goodbye to the world of fame. This is its dark history.
Actor Angus Jones, and probably best known for his role as Jake Harper in “Two and a Half Men,” stole the attention of more than 15 million viewers on each of the series’ covers. However, the price he paid was high.
That boy with the pink cheek that fit and fulfilled the obligations of the market was a success, but he also lost the first years of his childhood. He even said in an interview that after being famous he again enjoyed a walk with his parents because of the harassment of the fans.
He now lives away from the cameras and the set of recordings, perhaps to set aside the interruption that the program has left him and to regain the integrity that the entertainment industry has taken from him.
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Two and a Half Men is the series that tells the story of the coexistence of two brothers (played by Charlie Sheen and Jon Cryer) with totally opposite personalities, and the son of one of them, who far from following their rules and eccentricities Divorced Father, feels comfortable with the bewildered life his uncle leads.
Two and a Half Men was a successful series with over 15,000 viewers. Photo AFP
When he played Jake, the actor was only nine years old, the first appearance in the series was in September 2003. From there he lost his private life. However, this was not his first job before acting in the film Simp at just six years old. At eight he participated in the series See spot Run, ER and The Rookie, but there his characters did not attract much attention, until he reached Two and a Half Men began success in work, a growing career, but also , an emotional debate that overwhelmed him.
The origin of Austin
Angus Jones was born in Austin, Texas, United States, on October 8, 1993. He attended Christian school, but was not religious at the time. When he was five, he moved to Los Angeles with his family. His parents started taking him to various tracks, until he managed to get one for a commercial.
Angus never wanted to be an actor. In his words, it was all an initiative of his mother, who saw in Angus a future artist: he imitated scenes he saw on TV and learned the dialogues with what he saw. That made Carey Lynn Claypol think her future was there, in her son. And the boy was pushed to go through various auditions in advertising and television projects.
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The search took on a different color when in 2001 director and producer David Arquette cast him as one of the main characters in See Spot Run. From there he jumped to Two and a Half Men. He signed for the first two seasons, a total of 26 episodes for which he would pocket $ 7.8 million. He became the highest paid teenager in America.
Angus Jones decided to leave the series when Charlie Sheen’s character was changed
For the third and fourth installments, his salary was $ 350,000 per chapter, with which he exceeded eight million in profit. The sums were rising, and when he turned 17, as he was about to retire, he became the highest paid teenager of all time, according to People With Money.
Meanwhile, brands of all kinds demanded that his face be visible, but Jones was tasked with rejecting almost all proposals. In the ones he accepted, he allocated the money to the NGOs he started collaborating with, since he remembered.
From an early age, he worried about the situation of children living on the streets, in abandonment and abuse, so although he could not afford it because of his age, one of the requests he made to his parents was to be able to help vulnerable foundations. In 2008 she joined First Star, one of the institutions that offers help to minors who need it most.
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In the same year, he was also part of the Varietiy Youth Power to help children in Memphis with their presence and financially. He is also collaborating on an anti-bullying campaign called Be a Star.
Trauma and disappearance
After the end of the tenth season of the two and a half men, he moved away from success and exposure in general. Angus wanted nothing more than fame. He said that one of the reasons for his decision was the departure of his mentor, Charlie Sheen (replaced by Ashton Kutcher), who took the most care of him on the recording sets. But Angus also disagreed with part of his script, which focused on an adult and not on his age, in his view.
At that moment there was talk of a resounding change in his thinking. From day to day, after visiting various churches, Angus said he was traumatized by what he showed every time he performed. He went on to say that the small screen shows garbage and will not cooperate with it. “I do not want to continue to be part of the enemy’s plans,” he warned.
List of Two and a Half Men. Photo AFP
He also supported his need to regain the life he had lost as a child. The first thing he did after leaving was to start his studies at a university in Colorado. And he spent time with his friends, traveling the world with them as special guests. When he retired, as a teenager, he had $ 15 million in his bank account.
Angus himself talked about pressures and everything he had to go through at an age when his childhood was taken away. “It simply came to our notice then. I don’t want that yet. I need my privacy, to be able to enjoy my friends, to travel, to do things I have never done before “, he commented some time ago on his social networks.
Withdrawal
This year Angus Jones decided to get much more involved in his religious life. It all started when he realized that he was saved from a serious accident by the Lord’s plans. There he began to preach. He was baptized and immediately struck down his work. He commented that two and a half men, and especially his character, do not align with his beliefs.
“The show is dirty. The topics that are touched on are completely wrong. I feel like a paid hypocrite. Viewers should stop watching that show, “he commented in a video he posted on YouTube when he said goodbye. His words were experienced as a big media scandal and against the production of the series.
At the same time, he turned to social media to spread the word of God. Here were recorded two large groups: those who asked him to return to the series and those who were satisfied with his decision. He became a kind of prophet that many follow today.
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As for his love life, he was secretly married. According to the Washington Daily News, Angus was seen with an alliance and this suggests that he took another step in the relationship.
In addition to preaching, he spends his time working for the Tonita production company, which he opened in 2016 with Justin Combs, the son of rapper Diddy Combs. As he has pointed out in recent months, nothing and no one is distracting him from God’s way. He continues to attend meetings in the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Today at the age of 27 and despite constant offers, Angus Jones does not want to have anything to do with acting again. “I’m not looking to the future, I’m just moving on,” is one of his favorite phrases.
The actor is now a pastor and talks about all the damage the series has done to his personal life. Photo screenshot