Actor and Iowan Ashton Kutcher returns to 'The ’90s Show' to reprise his role as Michael Kelso

Actor and venture capitalist Ashton Kutcher discusses the future of 5G at a media event hosted by AT&T, Wednesday, July 14, 2021, in New York.
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Iowa’s own Ashton Kutcher returns to a small screen near you this summer when he reprises his role as Michael Kelso on “That ’90s Show,” a Netflix spinoff of “That ’70s Show,” according to Deadline.

Almost the entire cast — including his wife Mila Kunis — plan to make special guest appearances on the comedy that brings the cast 20 years into the future.

Topher Grace returns at Eric Foreman, Laura Prepon as Donna Pinciotti, Wilmer Valderrama as Fez, and Kunis as Jackie Burkhart.

Kutcher and Kunis met on the set of “That 70s Show” when they were a fictional couple when the comedy started airing in 1998 on FOX until 2006. Kunis, then 14, and Kutcher, 19, felt more like brother and sister when they starred together, but Kunis shared her first real-life kiss with Kutcher on the show.

The two started dating after meeting again at a party in 2012. Kutcher was separated from his wife Demi Moore at the time. By February 2014, the couple was engaged, and had their first child, daughter Wyatt Isabelle Kutcher, in October 2014.

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They married in July 2015. By November 2016, they welcomed a baby boy, Dimitri Portwood Kutcher.

Back on “That 90s Show,” the comedy returns, this time in 1995 with Leia Forman (Callie Haverda), daughter of Eric (Grace) and Donna (Prepon), visiting her grandparents for the summer. She makes friends with her own generation of teens in Point Place, Wisconsin, a fictional suburb of Green Bay, Wisconsin.

Kurtwood Smith, who plays Red, and Debra Jo Rupp, Kitty, also reprise their roles as Eric’s parents.

As Deadline said, “Sex, drugs and rock ’n roll never dies, it just changes clothes.”

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Kutcher is no stranger to Netflix, where he starred on the comedy “The Ranch” with former “That ’70s Show” alum Danny Masterson, who was fired in Season 3 after sexual assault allegations. Masterson will not appear on “That ’90s Show.”

Kutcher was born in Tiffin and briefly attended the University of Iowa before he was approached by a model scout and went on to win the "Fresh Faces of Iowa" modeling competition. After a brief stint in New York City, Kutcher then returned to Cedar Rapids, before relocating to Los Angeles to pursue a career in acting, where he caught his big break starring on “That ’70s Show.”

Susan Stapleton is the entertainment editor at The Des Moines Register. Follow her on Facebook, Twitter or drop her a line at sstapleton@gannett.com.

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