Spoiler alert! This storycontains details from "Modern Family" Season 10, Episode 7, "Did the Chicken Cross the Road?," which aired Nov. 7,2018.
This season, "Modern Family" is both mourning a death and celebrating life anew.
Wednesday's episode of the comedy in its 10th season revealed that Sarah Hyland'sHaley Dunphy is pregnant.
While trying to multitask–riding bumper cars and putting on lipstick–Hyland's Haley was bumped by Dylan(Reid Ewing), causing her lip color to get jammed into her nose.
She didn't suffer any major injuries, but while laid up in the hospitalshe found out she was expecting.
Hyland hinted about the big reveal on social media, prior to the start of the show. Sharing photos from the episode to Instagram, the 27-year-old actress warned followers they were in for a "BUMPY ride!"
Thursday morning, she Instagrammeda behind-the-scenes selfie, donning a pregnancy belly.
"Well I guess the cat’s outta the bag!!!" she captioned the image. "Or more like the bump’s outta the shirt!..... that was a horrible joke. I apologize."
Hyland shared that she's known for a while about the episode's shocker during a Q&A on Instagram Stories.
"(I knew) Before the season started. But. I had zero information on (the) details!" she wrote.
This is the second bit of shocking news for the "Modern Family" recently.
Last month, recurring character and family matriarch DeDe Pritchett (Shelley Long) – mom to Claire Dunphy (Julie Bowen)and Mitchell Pritchett(Jesse Tyler Ferguson) and ex-wife of Jay (Ed O'Neill) – died in the season's Halloween episode, "Good Grief."
"Modern Family" airs Wednesdays (9 p.m. ET/PT) on ABC.
Contributing: Anika Reed
