No sweat: Ashton Kutcher swears that he showers, despite past podcasts to the contrary

Well, this stinks. It turns retired Ashton Kutcher bathes connected the regular aft all, inclination stories beryllium damned.

“It was the craziest happening of each time,” Kutcher told People successful an interrogation published Monday. “We made a remark astatine 1 constituent and radical were like, ‘Does helium stink? Does helium smell?’”

Kutcher explained to his “The Beauty” co-stars Jeremy Pope and Anthony Ramos that helium and his woman Mila Kunis made a remark connected a podcast “so agelong ago” astir showering seldom and targeting those showers narrowly.

Now, “so agelong ago” was lone backmost successful 2021, connected Dax Shepard’s “Armchair Expert,” and the targets, the mates said astatine the time, were specific. Kutcher said helium washed his “armpits and ... crotch regular and thing other ever,” portion Kunis said determination was “no point” to bathing children unless you could “see the ungraded connected them.”

But successful hindsight, yes, that was astir apt sarcastic.

“I’m like, ‘I shower, I spell to the gym, I shower,’” Kutcher told People this week.

Ramos backed up his buddy’s story, saying with a laugh, “I tin corroborate my lad showers.”

In “The Beauty,” Kutcher’s quality is seemingly often shirtless and/or wearing a Speedo, truthful helium had to get backmost successful signifier earlier filming started.

“Let’s get wide astir it, I’ve been sitting successful an bureau seat doing task capital,” the erstwhile “Two and a Half Men” prima told People. “And so, I was like, ‘Oh, my gosh. What americium I gonna do?’ So I got a trainer — his sanction is Robbie Egan — and Robbie comes to my location astatine 5 o’clock successful the greeting earlier I commencement enactment and beats maine up.”

But capable astir beatings. Back to the summertime of 2021.

Kristen Bell, woman of podcaster Shepard, explained astir the aforesaid clip that they similar to “wait for the stink” to ablution their kids, for biology reasons. The full drought thing, you know.

“Once you drawback a whiff, that’s biology’s mode of letting you cognize you request to cleanable it up,” she said successful an quality with her hubby connected “The View.” “There’s a reddish flag. Honestly, it’s conscionable bacteria; erstwhile you get bacteria, you gotta beryllium like, ‘Get successful the tub oregon the shower.’”

Shepard added, “We bathed our children each azygous nighttime — anterior to furniture is similar the routine. And past somehow, they conscionable started going to slumber connected their ain without the routine, and by George, we had to commencement saying, ‘Hey, when’s the past clip you bathed them?’”

There’s seemingly been nary clarification since past from the Bell-Shepard household, but different expected stinker who felt the request to redefine his relation successful that alleged 2021 inclination was histrion Jake Gyllenhaal.

Gyllenhaal said successful an August 2021 Vanity Fair interrogation that “[m]ore and much I find bathing to beryllium little necessary, astatine times. I bash believe, due to the fact that Elvis Costello is wonderful, that bully manners and atrocious enactment get you nowhere. So I bash that.”

A period later, helium told Buzzfeed connected a reddish carpet that helium had been misunderstood.

“I answered a question wherever I was being sarcastic and ironic, and it’s followed maine around,” helium said. “Unfortunately, I showered earlier I came here. So ... I’m sorry.”

Never apologize for showering, Jake. It’s conscionable not necessary. At slightest not anymore.