Ty Burrell reacts to ‘Modern Family’ fans thinking he was dead
nypost.comThis family is still intact. After fans thought Ty Burrell, 57, who played the beloved Dunphy family patriarch, Phil, on “Modern Family” had died, he reflected on where that rumor started.On Monday’s episode of his former co-star’s Jesse Tyler Ferguson’s “Dinner’s on Me” podcast, Burrell recalled how missing a reunion special a few years back caused the speculation to spin.“We had that one big reunion,” Ferguson, 49, recalled, as Burrell stated: “That I couldn’t make it to.”“That hilariously,” the podcast host said.“Well, I died,” Burrell stated matter-of-factly. “Remember how I died?
Do you remember when I died?”In November 2023, Sofía Vergara shared a slew of pictures of what she dubbed the “first ‘Modern Family’ reunion!” on Instagram.The cast included Vergara and Ferguson, Ed O’Neill, Julie Bowen, Eric Stonestreet, Sarah Hyland, Ariel Winter, Nolan Gould and Aubrey Anderson-Emmons.Also featured were the sitcom creators Christopher Lloyd and Steve Levitan.Burrell was there in spirit as his cast members posed around a framed photo of him.
In a follow-up video, the “Modern Family” group said in unison: “We miss you, Ty!”Of course, that sent the internet into a frenzy.“Everybody in the cast was telling me that, you know, apparently I passed,” Burrell told Ferguson.
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