Ashton Kutcher and his wife, Mila Kunis, were spotted leaving a dinner date in the Thousand Oaks neighborhood of Southern California on Tuesday evening. The couple was dressed casually, with Kutcher in a black shirt and slacks and Kunis in a green jacket and acid-washed jeans, as they walked side by side to the parking lot with another couple.
This outing comes just days after the Kutchers posed with their children in public for the first time over the weekend. The family attended a women’s basketball game between the Indiana Fever and the Los Angeles Sparks at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles on Friday evening.
However, online critics have accused the couple of using their children to portray a wholesome family image after they publicly supported their That ’70s Show costar, Danny Masterson, who is currently serving time in prison, as well as Diddy, who was accused of assaulting his girlfriend several years ago.
Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis were spotted leaving a dinner date in Southern California.
The couple was dressed casually and walked side by side to the parking lot with another couple.
One critic commented, “They are using their children to try and change their image. First, they wrote to the courts about their support for their 70s Show friend, and then there’s their silence on their friend P. Diddy. These two are becoming more and more unlikeable.”
Another added, “Very weird. Are they willing to publicly show their kids after shielding them from the public eye? Just to look like cool parents?”
A third critic was even more direct: “Danny Masterson, who? Mila and Ashton, we have receipts.”
Danny Masterson is their former That ’70s Show costar, who has been convicted of rape and is currently serving a prison sentence. Masterson was sentenced to 30 years to life in prison last September after being found guilty of raping two women two decades ago.
He was initially transferred to North Kern State Prison in January but was relocated to Corcoran State Prison in California after less than two weeks. However, he was moved again in February to the Men’s Colony in San Luis Obispo, California, according to Deadline.
During the basketball game, the Kutchers’ children looked thrilled to pose with Caitlin Clark of the Indiana Fever. Kunis wore a green jacket with acid-washed jeans and her hair partially tied up.
Kunis sported a casual look with her hair partially tied up.
Ashton Kutcher, 46, and Mila Kunis, 40, married in 2015 after Kutcher’s divorce from his first wife, Demi Moore, in 2013. The former costars have a nine-year-old daughter, Wyatt, and a seven-year-old son, Dimitri.
During the game, Kutcher enthusiastically high-fived Clark after she made a shot. After the game, the two Iowa natives embraced in celebration of the victory.
Kutcher shared a photo with Clark on Instagram, writing, “Props @caitlinclark22 on W 1. Even bigger props on being someone to look up to! Take your shot! #hawkeyes.” Notably, he did not show his children’s faces in the post, as he chooses to keep them off social media.
The Kutchers were accused of portraying a wholesome family image after supporting their former costar, Danny Masterson.
When asked about the interaction with the Hollywood A-lister, Clark joked, “Yeah, he thinks he knows ball. I don’t know. We’ll have to play one-on-one.”
She continued, “But no, that’s a fellow Hawkeye, somebody that’s been very supportive of me over the course of my college career and now here. And his kids were adorable. I gave him a little high five there after I made that first one, but he was encouraging me the whole game. So it’s fun to have him courtside. He’s the man.”
The Kutchers posed with their children for the first time in public during the basketball game.
The former costars share a daughter, Wyatt, and a son, Dimitri.
Clark came over to greet the Kutchers after her team’s victory.
Clark joked about Kutcher’s basketball skills and expressed her gratitude for his support.
In other news, it was reported in April that Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher would not be returning to the That ’90s Show spin-off series on Netflix. The couple had reprised their roles as Jackie and Kelso for the first season but have no plans to appear in the upcoming second season.
Kunis told Entertainment Tonight, “I mean, we did our thing, and they introduced our son in the show, and that was, you know, [enough].”
Mila Kunis, who was just 14 when she was cast as Jackie, previously credited her older That ’70s Show co-stars for deterring her from drugs as a teenager. In an interview with Vanity Fair, she said, “I will say, the reason I don’t do drugs, the reason I didn’t get into doing drugs, all of that was because nobody on the set did.”
She continued, “I looked up to them, at 14, and so the trajectory of my career, my life, could’ve gone any which way, but it didn’t.”
Kutcher posed with his children, who looked like mini versions of him.
Kunis also shared that the cast often “played poker on Friday nights” and “drank beer” on set, but she never felt out of place. “I wasn’t intimidated. I had a solid ego, man,” she joked.
However, she admitted that she did feel in awe of the rest of the cast at times. “I don’t know if it was intimidating in the sense that I didn’t know who I was or lost sense of myself,” she said.
“But I must’ve been like, ‘Wow, these kids are all so cool, and they’re so much older than I am.’ We were all trying to figure ourselves out. We were all young.”
Kunis, who has two children with Kutcher, also noted that her casting was unusual for the time, as she had lied about her age. “It was in the heyday of older kids playing younger kids, and I was actually the age of the character,” she said.
“I’d like to make it very clear now: I did lie. You have to sign a contract before you get the job, and in my contract, I had to put an asterisk and be like, ‘Studio teacher.’ And they’re like, ‘What do you mean?’ And I was like, ‘Oh, P.S., I’m 14.'”