Moore steers Kutcher away from Stone

Hollywood actress Demi Moore has advised her toyboy lover Ashton Kutcher to turn down an offer to star in the Basic Instinct sequel.

The Punk'd host, 26, had been touted as the ideal actor to succeed Michael Douglas as the love interest of Sharon Stone's bisexual character Catherine Tramell, 13 years after the original 1992 blockbuster.

But 41-year-old Moore has told Kutcher accepting the role would damage his career, according to Britain's Daily Star newspaper.

A source says: "Demi's warned him it's rare for a sequel to work so long after the original."