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CULTURE
Michael Ireland
Special Reporter, ASSIST News Service
Actor Angus T. Jones, known
for playing the role of Jake Harper
in the popular CBS series Two
and a Half Men, now speaks at
churches talking about his new-
found faith in the Bible, God and
Christianity.
According to Jonathan Block,
writing for the Mail Online
(dailymail.co.uk), one of Britain’s
most popular daily newspapers,
Jones, 20, left the popular CBS
series last year, where he was paid
$350,000 an episode. He called
the program “filth.” Jones’ net
worth is estimated at $15 million,
and he is now reported to be a
student at the University of
Colorado.
TheMail Online reports that
nearly a year after leaving the hit
CBS sitcom Two and a Half Men,
actor Angus T. Jones, known as
on the show as Jake Harper,
Charlie Sheen’s nephew, “has
traded the bright lights of
Hollywood sets for church pews.”
Jones, who in 2010 became
the highest paid child actor in
television history at age 17 netting
$300,000 per episode, left the
show last year at the end of the
tenth season after he made
controversial comments that he
had embraced Christianity and
found the role he was playing
didn’t jive well with his religious
values. He made negative remarks
about the series and said he
wanted to exit, the Mail Online
stated.
In a video posted in
November
2012
by
The
Forerunner
Chronicles
(forerunnerchronicles.com),
Jones discussed why he decided
to get closer to his Christian
background. He also said, “If you
watch ‘Two and a Half Men,’
please stop watching [it]…I’m on
‘Two and a Half Men’; I don’t want
to be on it. Please stop watching
it. Please stop filling your head
with filth.”
Now seen sporting a scruffy
beard and long hair, Jones, who
lives in Colorado where he
attends
the
University
of
Colorado in Boulder, has fully
embraced Christianity, and he
visits churches across the country,
“speaking about God and
religion,” the Mail Online
reported.
“It was difficult for me to be
on the show and be part of
something that was making light
of topics in our world where there
are really problems for a lot of
people,”
Jones
told
Houston,Texas, television station
KHOU. “I was a paid hypocrite
because I wasn’t OK with it and I
was still doing it.”
When he left the show, Jones
walked away from a popular role
that made him a rich teenager. At
the time, he was making $350,000
per episode, or $8.4 million a
season. His net worth is estimated
at $15 million, according to
celebritynetworth.com.
Jones was in Houston last
month where he spoke at World
Harvest Outreach, a Seventh-Day
Adventist congregation. He read
from the Bible and also told
parishioners why he embraced
Christianity.
“I really want to come into
the light because I know that is
where the healing is and I’ve seen
God do amazing things,” said
Jones.
World Harvest Outreach
Church Pastor James R. Doggett
Sr., told KHOU: “He really
considers his relationship with
God and what he’s putting out in
the atmosphere to be a lot more
important than his reputation in
Hollywood. Angus, I’m not sure
really cares a whole lot about
being an actor or being well
known in that regard.”
The Mail Online said that
although Jones has left acting for
now, he says he may not be gone
for long.
“There’s a few different
productions that like to do kind of
Bible-based stories. Stuff like that,”
Jones said.
This article was reprinted from
ASSIST News (assistnews.net)
Actor Angus T. Jones: “I was a paid hypocrite”
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