Ted 2. She did not return for the sequel Ted 2. John reveals to Samantha that Lori kept trying to change him into something he was not, which made him realize that although he loved her, they seemed to be wrong for each other; so they ended up getting a divorce. She was replaced by Samantha Jackson.
At the reception we find out that John (Marky Mark) is depressed because he got divorced from Lori six months ago. We also find out that Guy (Patrick Warburton) is dating Rick (Michael Dorn). Ted does a dance sequence on a giant wedding cake over the opening credits.
However, Ted lures John away to a party at his apartment with the pressured offer to meet Sam J. Jones, the star of their favorite film, Flash Gordon. John intends to stay only a few minutes, but gets caught up in the occasion. Lori finds John there and kicks him out of the apartment, breaking up with him.
Life has recently changed drastically for "Thunder Buddies", John and Ted. John is now a bachelor, after newly divorcing Lori, while Ted is a married man after wedding the woman of his dreams Tami-Lynn.
Mila Kunis did not return for Ted 2 due to personal reasons, as she was pregnant during the filming schedule. The absence of Kunis in Ted 2 had a negative impact on the franchise, leading to lower ratings and box office gross.
Ted and Tami-Lynn remarry and adopt a baby boy, naming him after Rocky character "Apollo Creed", while John and Sam happily pursue their own relationship. John even gives Apollo Creed a teddy bear of his own.
John and Lori are married in a ceremony presided over by Sam Jones. Rex gives up his relationship with Lori after she marries, so he undergoes a deep depression, and dies of Lou Gehrig's disease (which John wished he would die from earlier in the film).
Lori does not return in the sequel. John reveals to Samantha that Lori kept trying to change him into something he was not, which made him realize that although he loved her, they seemed to be wrong for each other; so they ended up getting a divorce.
It's unlikely that Mila Kunis would return as John's original love interest, Lori Collins, since Kunis didn't come back for Ted 2. She was replaced by Amanda Seyfried as Samantha L. Jackson, who started dating John at the end of Ted 2, setting them up for a relationship arc in Ted 3.
Mila Kunis did not come back to play Lori because she was pregnant. In an early draft of the script, someone mentioned that Lori died between the two movies. That idea was considered too depressing, so it was changed to John and Lori getting divorced.
Ted eventually signed divorce papers, allowing them both to move on. The show has appeared to be on a track to keep them separate with Michelle dating Dr. Jacob and Ted's open romantic life. However, Ted Lasso season 3 teased a different future, even way before the finale.
Ted 2. Donny works as a janitor at the Hasbro Toy Company. After having failed to capture Ted in the first film, Donny is now working as a janitor at the Hasbro Toy Company.
In the wake of the backlash to their video, Kutcher resigned as chair of the board of Thorn, an anti-human trafficking organization that targets child sex abuse. Kutcher co-founded Thorn with fellow actor and ex-wife Demi Moore in 2009. Kunis also stepped down from her role as observer on the organization's board.
He was Lori's former boss and manager and John's arch-rival. At the end of the film, the narrator revealed that Rex gave up his pursuit of Lori and died of Lou Gehrig's disease (which John had previously wished on him) after becoming severely depressed.
In the sequel, it's explained that John and Lori divorced after six years of marriage. The majority of the film takes place a year after their break-up, with John finding love once more with Seyfried's character, Sam.
The last time Michelle is seen in Ted Lasso is when Ted is coaching at his son Henry's soccer game, and Michelle appears at the sidelines cheering for Ted and their son. While the show never explicitly confirms whether Ted and Michelle are back together, this scene clearly implies that this is indeed the case.
Amanda Seyfried had a crash course in the type of raunchy humor she needed for Ted 2. During her first days on set, co-star Mark Wahlberg, playing her budding love interest onscreen, scribbled an obscene word on her face with a marker as Seyfried pretended to be dozing for the cameras. "It was fun.
By the time they got married in 2020, Ted was 42 and Tracy is around 36. Unfortunately, Tracy and Ted's romance is short-lived, and she eventually succumbs to her illness in 2024, when Ted is 46 and Tracy was 40.
The events of Ted 2 occurred three years later, in the timeline of the story and in real life, making John 39 years old and Mark Wahlberg 42 during filming.
