Ashton, Demi and Rumer on 4-8-10
This story actually made me feel a tinge sorry for Ashton Kutcher. For all the things you can say about what a cheating ass he is, and how he’s flaunting his relationship with a new woman, he has been supportive and loving to his stepdaughters. (Most of whom are arguably old enough to date him.) So if this is true I feel just a tiny bit sorry for him. According to Mike Walker in the National Enquirer, Ashton begged his estranged wife Demi Moore (if they were ever officially married) to spend some time with his former stepdaughters over the holidays and was firmly denied. It was the stepdaughters who told their mom that there was no way they were going to see him.
Ashton Kutcher… begged Demi Moore – unsuccessfully – to include him in her and her daughters’ holiday plans. Ashton pals report he’s depressed and miserable because the stepkids have coldly cut him out of their lives… leaving a big hole in his own. Despite wanting desperately to be with the girls – even briefly – over Christmas, sisters Rumer, Scout and Tallulah told Mom they did NOT want to see Ashton, they told her to keep their holiday plans a secret from him!
[From The National Enquirer, print edition, January 16, 2012]
So instead of hanging out in L.A. and realizing what he was missing, Ashton hightailed it to Europe for the holidays, where he was seen partying in Germany and Italy, always accompanied by young attractive women. Plus he just rented a $50k a month modern bachelor pad with retractable glass walls and an infinity pool. All sympathy I might have for the guy is dissipating. You can’t bang a bunch of club chicks on the side and expect to have a happy home life for long.
Out of Demi and Bruce’s daughters the youngest is Tallulah and she turns 18 next month. I’m sure all of Demi’s daughters know exactly how Ashton so publicly wronged their mom. Even if they actively tried to ignore Internet reports, it was staring at them from the checkout aisle for weeks. He’s an ass if he thinks he can go back to acting like a stepdad without any consequences, but we already knew that about him.
The photo of Ashton with Rumer and Tallulah is from 6-22-07. He looks like he could be their brother. The photo of him with Demi and red-headed Rumer is from 8-3-09. All photos credit: WENN
Not surprising. It’s not like they are little girls, they knew what was going on, I don’t blame them for not wanting to see him.
OK, I don’t give a shit about Ashton and his “holiday plans”: I’m more concerned about the quality of writing in the media today. WTF is this: “Despite wanting desperately to be with the girls – even briefly – over Christmas, sisters Rumer, Scout and Tallulah told Mom they did NOT want to see Ashton, they told her to keep their holiday plans a secret from him!” The Grammar Nazi says, the way this sentence is constructed, it sounds like “the sisters” “desperately want to be with the girls.” It should read, “Although Ashton desperately wanted to be with the girls, sisters Rumer…”
Do they not teach sentence structure anymore?
It’s a losing battle, Kelly. Look at how almost nobody understands the proper use of the humble apostrophe. How about the use of “snuck” instead of “sneaked,” and the use of “dove” instead of “dived?” Last but not least, (and I’m leaving a LOT of common transgressions out,) nobody seems to understand that the phrase “I could care less” actually does mean a person COULD care less — the exact opposite of what s/he is attempting to express!
I know, I know, “your” right. (That’s my own personal pet peeve, besides the counter-person’s entreaty, “Can I help who’s next?” No, but you can help WHOMEVER is next. Though I realize it’s a losing proposition to try to get anyone to actually say that.)
And – I know this is totally off-topic – I was reading a post on some random blog when I “realized” that the use of “quotation marks” is “not well understood” “these days.”
I love you, Kelly. 🙂
i agree with you BUT the current generation using facebook and email and all the cute internet abbreviations are also using same in school so they are NOT learning any kind of grammer. one story read that a group of middle schoolers were ENCOURAGED to write themes using their internet slang as they would be more COMFORTABLE. puhleeezzee. future president says STFU, LOL….
You guys are making my brain jizz. No word of a lie, you have hit all of my most hated gaffes. Beyond the trouble with homonyms and tenses, the other three that I hate are when people say ‘peruse’ when they mean ‘quick scan’, deploy the verb ‘quote’ is where the noun ‘quotation’ is supposed to land and when the apostrphe that shortens a group of numbers is placed in the wrong spot. ex. 90’s in stead of ’90s.
LOL! I’m a technical writer/editor, and the latest offense that I’ve seen from both our techies and corporate folks is “updation”, which pretty much makes every sphincter muscle pucker…. I get sloppy when I’m off the clock — the homonyms show up when I’m tired. But I agree this run-on is painful.
in Europe the phrase is ‘I couldn’t care less’ which makes sense. Never have been able to understand how it got so mangled in the US.
@Malificent, corporate-speak is completely out of control. I pretty much tune it out lest I go mad. One funny thing, though, is that since we hear “strategic” every two minutes (“Yes, but is that strategy STRATEGIC?”), one of my colleagues started saying “strategery.” I guess no-one recognized it from Will Ferrell’s brilliant – and belated – George W. Bush impersonation, because lately I’ve heard a few people saying “strategerize.” And I don’t think they’re joking.
@Deej…umm, the correct wording of the phrase is not exclusive to Europe. Most of us in the U.S. know that’s the only way it makes sense.
Ahh you guys missed my personal fave: the substitution of the word “of” for “have.” As in “should of known” instead of “should have known.” I’ve been seeing this *a lot* lately and it makes me want to shoot myself sometimes. Of course, I know I can’t do that because that means there will be one less person in the world who knows that “of” and “have” are not the same f***ing word! Whoo! Sorry! Had to let that out!
My, what a lot of prescriptive linguists we have here! 🙂
I translate from several languages into English and long ago stopped worrying about the oddities of expression. I still struggle with the double negatives in some languages, though… But “I could care less” and the more logical “I couldn’t care less” are synonymous idiomatic phrases, whether we like it or not. Language is a living entity and is defined by its users, not by grammar books. Some changes catch on and become established, others are just passing fads. Change can be a good thing, just reflecting changing needs. I myself refuse to say “It is I” despite my grade school teacher insisting on it. “It’s me” sounds so much better and is more easily said. Every language, including dialects, does indeed have a grammar but not necessarily the one you were taught. It’s not a matter of right or wrong but rather a matter of “different”. It’s fine to teach a universal version of the national language so we can understand each other easily (especially in writing), but it should be considered as just another dialect.
My aunt is an English teacher (she certainly wouldn’t encourage chat speak), and I was an English major for two years prior to what I’m doing now. I know that I make mistakes in my grammar at times… but goodness. It’s awful how poorly some people speak and write in their native language. Also, I HATE the “I could care less” quote, and when people misuse the word ‘ignorant’.
Spell check, and chat speak are allowing those who cannot spell a crutch. I know I had so many spelling tests and grammar quizes when I was in grade school.
@ Poopie … surely you mean grammar? lol
hahahaa !! BIG OOPS!
All this. R.I.P. the English language
Also? Not feeling sorry for Ashton. Not one tiny bit. Suck it, dude.
Sample AK thought bubble:’Just ‘cuz I screwed around publicly on your mom doesn’t mean I don’t love YOU!’ Omfg. This is a kid in denial or so f’ing sick I cannot comprehend how he is allowed to walk free. I am now sure there is ‘more to this story’. Girding myself for the shytestorm.
Seeing a sign the other day that said “Banana’s on sale” I walked over and quietly removed the “‘” with my finger. It is only one very small victory but I still got some satisfaction out of it.
My sentiments exactly. I had to re-read that sentence a couple of times to get the gist of what the writer was trying to say.
I am right there with you on the grammar stuff…sure, in a blog reply, or an email [informal one], i will transgress to a point….
The apostrophe is the one that kills me! Grown adults put it before every da*n ‘s’ out there! I’m trying to teach my ten year old not to do that. It’s normal for kids, when learning, though. So I have t stifle my rage-lol-so I’m not over the top.
And, ‘their/they’re/there’ is my other pet peeve.
I agree, the internet, and now tweeting and facebook especially, are creating a society of illiterates. What do you expect, when google email just recently removed words and put symbols, for all of their (oops, just typed the wrong ‘there’ myself) ‘functions’? I’m like ‘what the hell is an arrow semi circle?’ I have to click on it to figure it out. Yea, I could figure out the trash can meant delete. This sh*t is literally [ha ha] making people illiterate.
Fortunately, my child loves playing scrabble. Unfortunately, I am now privvy to the ‘new scrabble dictionary’. And yes, proper nouns from OTHER THAN ENGLIGH languages, abound (like the Korean monestory unit, or a monetary unit from ancient Rome, or a religious term from ancient Egypt)….as do things like ‘Em’ meaning ‘the letter M’. And yea, it’s even worse when it is the spelled out letter of the greek alphabet, or slang like ‘za’ for pizza.
Wonder why everyone looks for the quick and easy, fast buck these days?
Shortcuts are the soup du jour.
For all “intensive purposes,” you all raise good points. I’m not sure how I feel about making the 17th post about grammar when poor Rumer (Rumour for the Brit) is suffering.
But that’s “a whole nother” story.
Yes, at grammarbitchy.com
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Listen, I’m not even a native English speaker and I CRINGE at the sight of “Their’s no hope/way/spark/whatever.” When did it become popular to butcher a simple “there”? Another beef of mine is actually a question to you natives. I’ve come to notice the use of a lot of apostrophs where my feeling tells me it is completely wrong to use them, mainly in a plural context as in “CD’s” or “DVD’s”. Help me out, I thought the ‘s was only to be used to shorten an “is”. Is that right? So you would have to write “CDs” and “DVDs” instead, right?
This thread makes me so happy.
Gift as a verb puts me over the top. Sure, language evolves. Sure, verbing nouns makes perfect sense when no verb exists for that action. Are we all really going to say, “I’ll send you a text” instead of “I’ll text you” indefinitely, even though the former is correct?
But there is a verb for gift already. GIVE. What is so inadequate about give?
AUGH! I hate that one, too! “I was gifted this sweater.” Who started this?!
They are grown ass woman not little girls, they don’t need him they have a father who they love very much.
I have seen pictures of Ashton in a little too close for comfort picture with one of his stepdaughters. Creepy.
There was a rumor a week or so ago that said the Demi’s daughters blamed Demi for the demise of her relationship. Obviously, that was a false one.
Tallulah is lovely–those eyes!!
Dusty, call me sick but I’ve always had the odd feeling that Rumer & Asston were a little *extra* close. Then when he stepped up & paid for half of Rumer’s new apartment I figured she had dirt on him. ICK
I dont see why he didn’t try reaching out to them himself. With the exception of Tallulah, the rest are adults and don’t need “mom’s permission”. Unless he was hoping to spend time with Demi too…
That is exactly what I was thinking. The “girls” are young women who can decide on their own to see him or not.
he doesn’t deserve to see them. Too bad. I will never feel sorry for Ashton.
Right? He lost his privileges with them when he screwed over their mother. He’s not their dad, he’s just some asshole their mom married.
God they are all ugly. I almos feel sorry for them. Like in the first pic, you could see Demis daughter trying to “out hot” her mom. Very sad
Actually, I thought Rumer looked VERY pretty in that first picture. I am always annoyed about the “looks” situation for the women in that family, especially Rumer (whom you hear more about). It absolutely is not fair and never will be that the poor girl and her face have to compete with/be compared to her mother’s worked-on, sculpted, very-well-paid-for “beauty” and forgiving facial structure when that same woman is responsible for the genetic combination that she possesses!
I blame Demi for (or at least see her as the root of) all the unkind comments, scoffing, ridiculing and pity that child receives for her natural looks that she does her best to work with, which are really ‘in comparison’ to her mother and all the unnatural assistance she’s acquired/monetarily invested in for her entire body!
I agree about Rumer in the first pic she looks lovely! i feel bad for her regarding the comments geared towards her unfortunate chin/jaw. That’s just the way she is and there’s nothing she can do about it. Its not like its the product of crazy surgery.
I like their unconventional looks. Feel sorry for yourself. They al seem to have a healthy sense of self worth and confidence.
To be clear, I think Rumer and sisters look, not like an image of perfection like their mum, but fine and healthy. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if their ‘ unconventional looks’ have contibuted to their developing in ways that matter most and won’t fade over time. However, I think the barrage of unkind comments and criticism of their looks are unfortunate in light of the fact that it seems to be rooted in a comparison of their natural looks that they proudly bear to their mother’s assisted and paid for ‘flawlessness’.
These aren’t sentiments of pity for the girls so much as it is a critique and smh at the irony of society’s standards and blindness/naïveté when it comes to beauty.
I dont give a damn about her. Feel sorry the way she tries not that she actually ugly. Get it?
This guy is smarmy. Is that a word? And those camera ads are atrocious too. And the girl he hooked up with in the hot tub…trash. He’s gross and clearly not the man he projected himself to be. Not a man at all, and those qualities have nothing to do with age. It’s about class…and he clearly doesn’t possess that. I don’t blame the girls for not seeing him, kids are loyal to their parents, especially in a situation like this where Demi has been the close sole care taker of them since their infancies. Bruce and Demi have it going on as parents, the girls don’t need Douche Squintface for anything. He’s an even bigger ass for reaching out so soon, and over a holiday ripe with tradition. Grow some class you asshat. (Yes, I do realize that class cannot be grown…)
It is a word, and he is smarmy.
That RED brachlet did Demi a lot of good!
The messy hair does NOT work for you ASSHAT.
Can’t say that I blame her.
Because I’m mean and vindictive, I would’ve said, “Sure, you can see them! Come by the house tomorrow at 3.”
Then when he showed up to the empty house the next day, all he’d see on the front door is a big sign saying, “PUNK’D!”
If he asked, he’s got some nerve. He cheated on and humiliated their mother. He screwed up. He lost his family. He lost those girls and it’s best he gets used to them not being in his life.
I doubt they want to be within a few yards of him anyway. I doubt Bruce Willis wants him to be within inches of his girls. Move on, Ashton.
Interestingly,the jawlines of the girls look similar to Ashtons, they look like they could be his daughters.
gross, if I were the daughters, i wouldn’t want to see him either. They are almost the same age as the girls he was banging on the side. Hell, I wouldn’t want to see demi either for that matter…lol But how he went about it all, being so sloppy in public with other girls earlier last year, that’s enough to realize you’re going to damage you Dad status pretty quickly.
I guess you are a Daddy until you mess up. All these years he has been their other father. Well how the worm turns.
besides these are not minor children. Old enough. But I just shake my head at how different things are now. Ashton now knows he is not their father after all. Bruce is. ALWAYS
I just don’t see him “begging” to see the girls. I think it’s more probable that he offered an invitation out of good will, but without any real expectation that they would accept.
For some reason that’s the same response I have to this.
I dont think he acted as a father, but it was widely reported that he had a great friendship with the girls. I totally understand their not wanting to see him, even if mom said she was cool. When i found out my BIL was cheating on my sister, i was more mad because it was like he duped the family. We took him in an loved him like on of our own and we felt played right along with her. She says she has no hard feelings, but thats good for her. I want to kick his ass. for her and for me
You guys are gonna love this – I just saw this on a dating site: “I am looking for one individual who is special.” LOL! Even better, he could’ve said he is looking for “one particular special individual.”
To me, this represents a weird kind of institutional or corporate speak, trying to make things sound more official. Like the line from Idiocracy: “Okay, sir, this is to figure out what your aptitude’s good at and get you a jail job while you’re being a particular individual in jail.”
I love how often this movie gets quoted on this site. Such an underrated movie!
It should be shown as a warning to what our world will become…
Is it just me? In that first picture, isn’t his hand lower on Rumor’s butt than Demi’s? And the look on his face is “look what I’m getting away with, in public, and no one is noticing!”
That is all kinds of wrong…
I always thought he looked like such a smug little piggy. I remember reading early on in the relationship, before the marriage, that Ashton bragged to friends about how he used to jerk off to Demi as a teenager and look, now I’m effing her! Just a juvenile creep.
stepkids have coldly cut him out of their lives… leaving a big hole in his own. – WTF. He deserves nothing. And if it’s true he’s worst than I believed.. How can you ask something like that to the 3 kids of your ex-wife? You cheating douchebag.
I wouldn’t let that douchebag near my daughters if I were Demi.
What a horrible thing he did to their mother and what a horrible example of manhood he is.
You do the crime, you get the time (or don’t, in this case).
How could he expect them NOT to cut him out of their lives? He humiliated their Momma with hot tub ho’s the same age they are… end of story dude.
Must say, don’t care at all for that purple dress… thing… that Demi is wearing in 2nd pic. Sometimes she just totally misses the mark.
If I were those girls, I would be a little peaved with dear ole Mom for making such stupid relationship decisions and putting me in a postion of having to deal with this putz.
They are adults. If they wanted to see him on their own away from Demi they could. They obviously dont want to.
It would not have been easy for Ashton to live with such a ‘clingy’ needy woman, who was in overdrive to find ways to keep him by her side. Demi obviously had/has no self respect. He is well rid of her.
I can’t believe I’m doing this, but in his defense (I can’t believe I’m ACTUALLY defending this douche-bag) Demi has a history of cheating too, at least in her marriage with Bruce, not sure in her marriage with Ashton but I wouldn’t put it past her. She does have a history of female+female relationships. In fact, Chelsea Handler herself said it on Piers Morgan that Ashton and Demi had an “Open Marriage” and that it was widely known in Hollywood that they would have threesomes and orgies. Now, if one has an “Open Marriage” how is it possible that either one could be considered a cheat if they mutually agreed to bring in a third or fourth into their marriage arrangement?
I think he reached out during the holidays for one reason only. He was alone. Not only did his grandmother just die, but I can imagine the holidays with his blood relatives are difficult since he is an active follower of Kabbalah and his Iowa/Wisconsin family are hard-core Catholics. It certainly cannot be easy especially during the Nov/Dec/Jan months. And I’m sorry to betray my own gender and disparage “Cougerdom” but Demi should have known better than to date and marry a 25 year old immature man-child. She’s literally old enough to be his mother. Literally. Last I checked, people are barely getting to know themselves during this time in their lives. I don’t know a single dude that is ready to take on a lifetime commitment of marriage and step-children at 25/26.
That being said, I still think he is a smarmy douche-bag a-hole who married Demi to get ahead in Hollywood.
Sorry but if you are going to screw over your wife, then expect the kids to be on her side and not want to see you. DUH!
Good for them for turning him away. I would do the same thing if someone publicly humiliated my mother like that. He didn’t have to do that to Demi (although I am no fan of Demi’s either). He could have waited until they formally split before going for his hot tub party, gag. This is one of the reasons why he’s still an immature man-child. And she made a bad relationship decision to marry him. Both need help.
Rumer needs to always wear her hair in that short cute pixie cut. It is SO much better than long hair on her- it balances out her heavy jawline by drawing the eye up. Much more attractive, IMO. I also cosign the above grammar rants!
I hope he was denied solely for being the massive DOUCHEBAG that he is. I still remember when he and that other no-talent turd P. Diddy (or whatever he calls himself these days) tried to compare themselves to Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin.
Tool.