The cast of Modern Family recently reunited at the SAG Awards and it only occurred due to one specific cast member.
The show, styled like a mockumentary, followed a blended family in California and all of the individual/group hijinks they got up to.
Modern Family reunion happened for Ty Burrell
While chatting with Jimmy Fallon during a segment on The Tonight Show, Jesse Tyler Ferguson (who played youngest son Mitchell Pritchett)revealed that the cast reunionhappened so that the world wouldn’t think Ty Burrell (husband Phil Dunphy) was dead.
“Honestly, on [SAG] night, we were all busy,” Ferguson said, “Sofia [Vergara] was supposed to be doing press, I was supposed to be here in New York, Julie [Bowen] was shooting a show, Ed [O’Neill] had a glass of wine to drink.”
“And so we all canceled those very important things, and we figured out a way to come together because the last time we had a reunion, Ty Burrell wasn’t able to come, and so we posed with photos of Ty… and then the internet thought he was dead.”
“[Burrell] was supposed to do something else [that night]. [But] I was like, ‘Ty! You can’t miss it again! People will really think you’re dead!’ It’s like, ‘We need to present you to show you that you’re not dead!’ So he made it.”
However, Burrell was not in attendance and, in all of the photos shared from that night, the cast can be seen holding a framed picture of the actor, whichsparked rumors that he may have passed awaysecretly.
Vergara even went as so far as topost a video of the Burrell’s framed picture on a mantlewith cast yelling, “We miss you, Ty!”
So, the reunion was a great way to get the gang back together while also proving that Burrell is still alive, kicking, and sporting a great new mustache.
Kayla Harrington was a TV & Movies Writer on Dexerto’s US team, specializing in The Boys, The Walking Dead, House of the Dragon, Marvel and Star Wars. She also has bylines at Mashable, BuzzFeed, and The Mary Sue.
