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Frat Guy of the Week: TV and Movie Star Ashton Kutcher

By Patrick W. Connelly
Co-Editor, The Frat Boy News

Before taking a modeling gig that led to his casting on a TV show that went on to be one of the decade's most popular sitcoms, Ashton Kutcher lived it up as a Delta Chi brother at the University of Iowa.

Kutcher, who stars alongside Cameron Diaz in the new movie "What Happens in Vegas..." opening this week, was a biochemical engineering major and was kicked out of his apartment at Iowa before moving to Hollywood to pursue and acting career.

"I thought I knew everything but I didn't have a clue," Kutcher told Cosmopolitan magazine in a 2007 interview. "I was smoking a lot of weed and partying and I woke up many mornings not knowing what I had done the night before. I played way too hard. I am amazed I am not dead."

Kutcher was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He starred in school plays while doubling as a receiver on the football team at Clear-Creek Amana High School.

Kutcher has a fraternal twin brother, Micheal, who has cerebral palsy. Finding a cure for Michael was Kutcher's inspiration for studying science at Iowa, he said.

After modeling in advertisements for Calvin Klein and acting in a Pizza Hut commercial, Kutcher moved to Los Angeles and got his big break when he joined the cast of "That 70s Show," starring as goofball Michael Kelso.

Kutcher has gone on to marry actress Demi Moore, star in over a dozen movies and produce hit TV shows like MTV's Punk'd.