TOP CLICKS: The week that was in viral stories

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The Toronto Sun takes you straight to the heart of the action.

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Whether it’s local news, provincial and national politics, or the worlds of celebrity and sports, we have you covered.

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Some stories set the world on fire. And these ones are the most popular online stories from the past seven days, clicked on by Sun readers like you.

Here are our top stories:

‘Two and a Half Men’ cast, crew struggled with Charlie Sheen’s downward spiral

Charlie Sheen has made leaps and bounds rebounding from what was happening in his life more than a dozen years ago to now.

In the late 2000s to early 2010s, Sheen was all about #winning and tiger blood and Adonis DNA and his Violent Torpedo of Truth tour (anyone else remember that?) when arguably his biggest mistake was aiming the torpedo at his own face.

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It was a downward spiral felt by all: Charlie, of course, as well as his family and friends and the cast and crew of Two and a Half Men, who had to work with him under these conditions — when he would show up to the set, that is.

They revealed that they would try to separate what was going on in Charlie’s personal life with their jobs but that became tougher and tougher.

Kanye West and wife banned for life from Venice boat company after indecent exposure

Talk about getting caught with your pants down!

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Kanye West and “wife” Bianca Censori (FYI, it’s “wife” because they were married in a non-legally binding ceremony) have been in Europe for the last several weeks. During their time in Italy, things got a bit revealing.

If you thought it was Censori in one of her signature, bizarre, Kanye-approved outfits, think again.

Rather, Kim Kardashian’s ex was photographed on a Venice boat baring his bum while Censori was doing who knows what (oh, we have our suspicions but we’re keeping mum).

Now the boating company wants nothing to do with Ye or Bianca and the couple have been banned from ever boarding one of its boats again. That’s amore.

WARMINGTON: Cash-starved city closing profitable go-kart track, speeding up race to despair

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Toronto’s race to last place is careening at a torrent pace as a park’s beloved go-kart track, batting cages and beach volleyball parks are set to go but, hey, drug injection sites are sticking around.

Despite petitions signed by more than 22,000 people, the Centennial Mini-Indy at Etobicoke’s Centennial Park has been given an eviction notice after 36 years and will be forced to shutter by the end of the season to make way for new baseball diamonds — even though the park already has baseball diamonds.

Apparently, Toronto is facing a cash crunch, Joe Warmington reported, and Mayor Olivia Chow is floating new taxes called revenue tools to pay the bills. Cancelling the eviction of the Centennial Mini-Indy would be a start.

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SIMMONS SAYS: Burke stepping into what could be his most important role yet

Brian Burke, now the executive director of the Players’ Association of the new Professional Women’s Hockey League, is about to embark on what might be the most important pursuit of his professional career, Steve Simmons reported.

No, he doesn’t have any more players to represent; rather, he will act as part-builder, part-consultant, part-player rep and part-lawyer and his strong ties to commissioner Gary Bettman and the NHL could play a huge part down the road in whether the PWHL can succeed.

Passengers onboard Delta diarrhea plane describe ordeal

We’ve all heard of snakes on a plane. We all know about vomit on a plane (been there, done that!). But explosive diarrhea? Heck, no.

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Well, not until word got out from Delta passengers who endured a flight where a fellow traveller was horrifically sick and had “diarrhea all the way through the airplane.”

Good golly.

Things got so poopy on the flight from Atlanta to Barcelona that the plane had to be diverted 90 minutes into its flight due to the “biohazard” that even “dribbled down the aisle.”

Please make it stop.

Flight crew members tried to spray vanilla-scented disinfectant but it only made the whole plane smell like “vanilla s—.”

Nope. Nuh-uh. There’s no coming back from this, right? Did they just incinerate the entire plane?

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