Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher: From That '70s Show to a $36 Million Ukraine Fund

Their characters were Jackie and Kelso. Their later work together included a Super Bowl snack commercial and a Ukraine relief fund. Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher's public story covers more than the sitcom where they first met.

They began working on That '70s Show in 1998 and began their real-life romance years later. This timeline follows the public milestones through the 2022 campaign that GoFundMe.org later reported had raised over $36 million. It doesn't require imagining what either person privately felt at every step.

1998: Jackie and Kelso

Jackie Burkhart and Michael Kelso brought Kunis and Kutcher together on television. The sitcom began in 1998 and ran through 2006.

Their later romance wasn't taking place throughout that run. They began dating in 2012, after years of knowing each other as fellow actors. The show was their shared workplace first, and the starting point for the public story fans remember.

2012: A Relationship Beyond the Show

In 2012, Kunis and Kutcher began the relationship that would lead to their engagement and wedding. Their first shared workplace was already well behind them: That '70s Show had started in 1998.

The dates leave a gap between working together and becoming a couple. That gap doesn't need a story about destiny to explain the later sequence of public milestones.

2014: Engagement and a Growing Family

February brought an engagement; October brought a daughter. The couple's public story changed twice in 2014, with the wedding celebration still ahead.

Those milestones explain why the years after their romance began look different from the years they spent as co-stars. They had moved into family life. The chronology can record that change without supplying private conversations, a child's present routine or imagined scenes from their home.

2015: A Private California Celebration

A ranch in Oak Glen, California was the setting for the couple's Fourth of July weekend wedding celebration. Entertainment Tonight reported a small outdoor gathering of family and friends, with tight security.

Its July 6, 2015 account confirmed the event while citing People on an earlier legal marriage. The celebration and the paperwork weren't necessarily the same occasion. The public report described the gathering, rather than establishing that the weekend was the precise date their marriage became legal.

Working Together Again Took a Different Form

The sitcom remained an obvious reference when the two appeared in another project together. But the later collaboration wasn't a new episode of Jackie and Kelso's story.

Frito-Lay's February 1, 2021 announcement presented them as the stars of a Cheetos Super Bowl commercial with Shaggy. In the release, Kutcher connected the project to their memories of working on That '70s Show and said they had rarely done projects together since. It was a professional reunion with a different premise.

2021: The Joke Was About Missing Snacks

Kutcher kept finding Kunis eating his Cheetos in the commercial. Each time he asked about it, she used Shaggy's answer: It Wasn't Me. The singer was part of the setup too, offering the advice behind the denial.

The 2021 spot gave the pair a different kind of comic partnership from their sitcom roles. It was a performance made for an advertiser, with the missing snacks as its premise. Their real shared history sat behind the casting, rather than turning the scripted scene into a private-family documentary.

2022: A Fund for People Fleeing Ukraine

The Stand With Ukraine fundraiser launched in March 2022. On its campaign page, Kunis described being born in Chernivtsi and moving to the United States with her family in 1991. The family pledged to match up to $3 million.

The campaign named Flexport.org and Airbnb.org as beneficiaries for relief supplies and temporary housing. Those were specific aims for the money raised, rather than an unspecified pledge attached to a celebrity appearance. GoFundMe.org handled the charitable fund.

The Total Came From a Wider Community

GoFundMe.org's later recap reported more than $36 million raised from over 75,000 donors. That total represented the campaign's support, not a claim that Kunis and Kutcher personally supplied the entire amount.

The charity said incoming donations were transferred to organizations providing relief. The campaign page's matching pledge and the charity's reported total describe different things. Together, they document a public project beyond the couple's acting work, with donors and relief organizations also part of the result.