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Kelso and Jackie are still going strong.
Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis are reportedly not separating despite speculation from online sleuths after they highlighted the “Dude, Where’s My Car?” actor’s past friendship with the now incarcerated Sean “Diddy” Combs.
Kutcher, 46, and Kunis, 41, aren’t letting the rumors affect their nine-year marriage, with an insider telling People the breakup chatter is “absolutely ridiculous and false.”
Following Diddy’s arrest, old photos emerged showing a young Kutcher with the music mogul, including him co-hosting the record producer’s annual White Party in 2009. The images of Kutcher with the accused sex trafficker; however, it’s crucial to note that there is no indication that he or any stars who attended Diddy’s past parties were involved in any alleged illegal activities.
Still, that plus Kutcher’s relationship with convicted rapist Danny Masterson sent sleuths into a tailspin.
Many believed Kunis might walk away, but the source shared that’s not the case.
The famous pair met on the set of “That ’70s Show” in 1998. Kunis landed the role of Jackie Burkhart, the love interest of Kutcher’s character, Michael Kelso when she was only 14 after lying about her age.
“There’s a rumor going around that I may or may not have lied about my age,” Kunis admitted in 2022. “I’d like to make it very clear now that I did lie. I did.”
“However, by the time I went to what was then a producer’s network call…you have to sign a contract before you get the job and in my contract I had to put an asterisk for ‘studio teacher,’” she continued.
“They were like, ‘What do you mean?’ And I was like, ‘Oh P.S., I’m 14.’ But at that point if you talk to the creators, they were like, ‘We loved you at that point so what did we care?’”
“That ’70s Show” continued on Fox until 2006. While they played love interests on the series, Kutcher and Kunis didn’t start dating until early 2012.
Kutcher’s friendship with Diddy was further scrutinized when the actor refused to discuss the rapper’s infamous parties in a resurfaced clip of his September 2019 appearance on “Hot Ones.”
“I’ve got a lot I can’t tell,” Kutcher told the host Sean Evans. “So, uh,” he said before pausing.
“Can’t tell that one, either,” Kutcher laughed. “I’m actually cycling through them. … Diddy party stories, man — that was some weird memory lane thing.”
Kutcher and Diddy’s friendship goes way back, with the actor telling Evans that the rapper forbade him from targeting him on “Punk’d.” In the early 2000s, Kutcher played ruthless practical jokes on his celebrity pals and set up cameras to film their reactions.
“I was like, ‘I don’t know what to tell you; everybody’s on the table,’” he recalled telling Diddy. “He’s like, ‘Not me. I’m off the table.’ So that started our conversation.”
Kutcher said they became “fast friends,” adding they “used to hang out and watch football together.”
Kutcher has been quiet about the allegations surrounding Diddy. His friendship with Masterson raised eyebrows when he and Kunis wrote character letters on Danny’s behalf before his sentencing in 2023. Despite the glowing reviews they and others gave him, Masterson was handed 30 years in prison after a jury found him guilty of two counts of forcible rape.
Diddy was arrested on September 16 and charged with three counts of racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion and transportation to engage in prostitution.
Prosecutors accused Diddy of flying sex workers across state lines and forcing women to participate in “Freak Offs” with male prostitutes. The alleged “Freak Offs” were described as “elaborate and produced sex performances that Combs arranged, directed, masturbated during and often electronically recorded.”
They claimed Diddy would hold the recorded “Freak Off” footage as “collateral” for blackmail and use guns “to intimidate and threaten” those in the videos.
He pleaded not guilty to all counts. If convicted, Diddy could face decades in prison.