Kutcher sitcom idea bears ring of reality

Ashton Kutcher, whose MayDecember romance with screen star Demi Moore has riveted the tabloids for months, is producing a sitcom pilot inspired by the couple’s recent real-life marriage. The show, about a man closer in age to his eldest stepdaughter than his bride, is “ loosely based” on Kutcher’s new blended- family life, 20th Century Fox Television spokesman Chris Alexander said yesterday.

Tentatively titled 30- Year- Old Grandpa, the show — being developed for Fox TV — would be set in Chicago and centre on a nightclub owner and a 40something businesswoman who get married and pregnant. At the same time, the woman’s 22-year-old unwed daughter announces she is pregnant and plans to move home to raise her baby. The woman’s youngest daughter, who had been living with her father, decides she also wants to live with mom and the new stepdad.

“It becomes a very modern, messy look at an extended American family,” Kutcher’s producing partner, Karey Burke, told Daily Variety.

Like the fictional club owner in his sitcom pilot, Kutcher, 27, became a stepfather when he tied the knot last month with Moore, 42, who has three daughters — aged 11, 14 and 17 — from her previous marriage to actor Bruce Willis.

Kutcher and Moore are not known to be expecting a child, but the actress said in a recent Harper’s Bazaar

magazine interview that she wanted to expand their family. Alexander said he doubted that either Kutcher or Moore would appear in the series but added, “ I suppose anything is possible.”