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This 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, 52, 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, 78, Julie Bowen, 55, Eric Stonestreet, 53, Sarah Hyland, 34, Ariel Winter, 27, Nolan Gould, 26 and Aubrey Anderson-Emmons, 17.
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. But in actuality, the actor had a surgical procedure he couldn’t miss, which meant “the only photos I had of me missing were me in the hospital from surgery.”
The six “Modern Family” parents — Burrell, Bowen, Ferguson, O’Neill, Stonestreet, and Vergara — handed out a statue at the 2024 SAG Awards a few months later.
An appearance prompted to shut down any speculation about Burrell’s well-being.
“Honestly, on that night, we were all busy,” Ferguson said on “The Tonight Show.”
“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 a photo of Ty… and then the internet thought he was dead!” Ferguson said.
Fans are also clamoring for a reboot of the beloved series, which ran on ABC for 11 seasons from 2009 to 2020.
“Yes,” Bowen told the New York Post in October when asked if she would be up for it. “Of course, I would be game. I can’t imagine any of us wouldn’t be. We’re stupid for each other.”
The possibility of it actually coming to fruition is a little less certain.
“I have no idea,” Bowen admitted. “You know, that’s up to [Steven] Levitan and [Christophoer] Lloyd in the end.”