Modern Family’s Ty Burrell reacts to rumours that he died in podcast interview with Jesse Tyler Ferguson

Trendy Familly’s Ty Burrell has addressed rumours that he died.

Hypothesis that the actor, who performed Phil Dunphy in the cult favorite sitcom, had died started circulating amongst followers after he didn’t attend a solid reunion in November 2023.

He has now recalled how it began in a new interview together with his Trendy Household co-star Jesse Tyler Ferguson, who performed his brother-in-law Mitchell Pritchett on the present.

Watch the video above.

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“We had that one large reunion,” Ferguson recalled earlier than Burrell minimize in saying, “that I could not make it to.”

“Effectively I died,” Burrell added matter-of-factly. “Keep in mind how I died? Do you bear in mind once I died?”

Ferguson persevering with to appropriate him sharing that the “web had determined” that he died.

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The rumours started when a photograph of the solid reunion was posted to social media. As Burrell could not make it, the solid held a framed picture of Burrell to incorporate him within the picture.

Followers immediately panicked pondering that it meant Burrell had handed away and the hearsay took on a lifetime of its personal.

“After that complete factor, everyone within the solid was telling me that apparently I had handed,” Burrell recalled.

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Ferguson laughed as he recalled the situation and admitted that he and his fellow solid members may perceive how followers have been confused.

“It was so humorous,” he mentioned.

“After we look again on that, we’re like, as a result of we introduced a photograph of you to incorporate you in all of the household footage and we have been like, ‘nicely yeah it does type of seem like we have been having a memorial for you.’.”

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Ferguson added that together with a photograph of Burrell was meant to be a joke because it was his “least favorite press picture” however it spiralled into one thing a lot extra.

“You have been mainly punishing me for lacking the reunion, which I deserved,” Burrell joked.

“It was the picture of me within the headphones doing the rock and roll heavy steel signal.”

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Regardless of the rumours, Burrell, in fact, had not handed away. As an alternative, he wasn’t in a position to make the Trendy Household reunion as he needed to bear surgical procedure.

“My favorite a part of this, although, was that we had all deliberate it and also you mentioned, ‘I believe I am going to have the ability to come. I believe I am going to have the ability to come’,” Ferguson mentioned.

“And then you definately have been like, ‘Oh, you realize what, I forgot I’ve surgical procedure’.”

Whereas Burrell wasn’t in a position to make the solid reunion in November 2023, he was in a position to be a part of his co-stars just a few months later on the 2024 SAG Awards.

It was one thing that Ferguson noticed to himself.

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“When the SAG Awards occurred, [Burrell] was alleged to do one thing else,” Ferguson mentioned in an interview with Jimmy Fallon on the time. 

“I used to be like, ‘Ty! You possibly can’t miss it once more! Folks will actually assume you are useless!’ It is like, ‘We have to current you to indicate that you just’re not useless’. So he made it.”

On the awards ceremony, a thankfully-alive Burrell joined Ferguson, Ed O’Neil, Sofia Vergara, Julie Bowen and Eric Stonestreet.

“I laughed so laborious being there with all of the people who I beloved and simply screwing the pooch utterly,” Burrell recalled of the night.

“It simply instantly turned one in all my favorite reminiscences.”

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