Charlie Sheen.

PASADENA, Calif. — Charlie Sheen says all the tabloid headlines over his nasty split with ex-wife Denise Richards was “just inane.”

The Two And A Half Men star was among dozens of CBS personalities who partied with the press on the hallowed turf of the Rose Bowl Saturday night. Phil Keoghan (The Amazing Race), Canadians David James Elliott and Jennifer Finnigan (Close To Home), Gary Sinise (CSI: NY), Dennis Haysbert (The Unit) and Jennifer Love Hewitt (Ghost Whisperer) were also at the event, as were new show stars Skeet Ulrich (Jericho), James Woods and Jeri Ryan (Shark) and Ray Liotta and Virginia Madsen (Smith).

Sheen’s mug was on so many tabloid front pages last spring CBS boss Les Moonves could only joke about all the “great publicity” at the network upfront. Sheen told the Sun that all he could do was pray “for Britney’s stomach to grow a little larger, Angelina to adopt another child or something else to happen.”

Sheen mostly accepts that press scrutiny comes with the job. “This career was voluntarily chosen. I guess you just deal with it,” he said.

And he doesn’t just blame the press for the current preoccupation with celebrity dirt. “A lot of that’s on Hollywood,” he said. “There’s like an all access backstage pass these days from Hollywood to the press and then (the stars) complain that they’re airing people’s dirty laundry.”

Sheen does feel that there should be a law restricting press access to the children of celebrities as well as pointing cameras at funerals. “I put a dear friend in the ground a few months ago and there were people taking photos,” he said. “Man.”

GHOST WITH THE MOST: Last summer, many critics called Ghost Whisperer a not so well done Medium. Despite the bad press, it took off immediately.

The secret, says Love Hewitt, is that it is an incredibly hopeful show. “There’s not a person on Earth that doesn’t wish they said one more thing” to a departed loved one “or handled things differently,” she said. Her character, Melinda Gordon, gives a different person that opportunity every week.

Sure, but isn’t it that guys just can’t take their eyes off your fabulous chest, I suggested. “The tiny tops that she talks to people in probably do help, yes,” Love Hewitt conceded. Why is she never talking to people in baggy sweats? “That’s just a smart network.”

As for last spring’s shocking season finale, where Gordon’s pal Andrea (Aisha Tyler) was killed off, Love Hewitt says things may not be what they seem. “All I can say about the new season and definitely the first couple of episodes is that what people think was the ending of last season, maybe they should just wait and see.”

Love Hewitt says that last pages of the cliffhanger were originally left out of the shooting script. “All of us in the cast were very nervous. I was less nervous. I’m the one who talks to the dead, so if something happens to me the show is over. That will be CBS’ way of saying the show is canned.”

Joining the cast — to overworked Love Hewitt’s great relief — is Jay Mohr (Last Comic Standing) as a “not so kind and ungentle professor” who nevertheless helps Gordon save souls, as well as Camryn Manheim (The Practice). Who does she play? “Can’t say,” said Love Hewitt.