After nine and a half seasons, two Emmys, and more than 200 episodes, Julie Bowen is finally stepping behind the camera. The actress is making her directorial debut with Wednesday’s episode of Modern Family, the first time a cast member has directed an episode of the ABC sitcom.
In the episode, titled “Red Alert,” Lily (Aubrey Anderson-Emmons) gets her first period, and her completely-unprepared dads Cam (Eric Stonestreet) and Mitch (Jesse Tyler Ferguson) turn to their female family members for help. Meanwhile, a pregnant Haley (Sarah Hyland) struggles with baby-care tasks, Claire (Bowen) is being recruited by a company in hot water with the IRS, and Phil (Ty Burrell), plagued by insomnia, is totally exhausted on the day he has to film a real estate listing video.
RELATED VIDEO: Haley tells Lily how to use her period to her advantage in Modern Family exclusive clip
In two exclusive clips from “Red Alert,” the women of Modern Family offer different methods to help Lily cope with her new milestone. Gloria (Sofia Vergara) suggests a traditional Colombian remedy, Alex (Ariel Winter) comes bearing health pamphlets, and Haley assures Lily that she can use her period as a “get out of jail free card” for everything from tests to sneaking weed into concerts. (She’s going to make a great mother.)
Check out the clips above, and catch Modern Family Wednesdays at 9 p.m. ET on ABC.
In Modern Family season 4, episode 7, "Arrested," the Dunphys woke up in the middle of the night to a phone call from the police. Haley was arrested for underage drinking and assaulting a police officer.
Bowen suffers from the cardiovascular condition bradycardia: her regular heartbeat is below normal. As a result, she has had a pacemaker since her early twenties.
Sarah Hyland hasn't been in every episode of Modern Family's final season. The 29-year-old actress, who has played Haley Dunphy in all 11 seasons of the ABC comedy, responded to a fan on Twitter asking about her absence. “Apparently I've been busy with the twins,” she wrote back Friday with a shrugging emoji.
“Why has Haley been missing from so many episodes of Modern Family this season?” one fan asked the actress. She retweeted the question and replied, “Apparently I've been busy with the twins.”
A scandal threatens Nathan's career in the NBA; Haley goes back on the road, but suffers a family tragedy that causes her a very intense battle with depression.
Julie Bowen, 52, of Modern Family fame reveals she had an eating disorder when she was a teenager. Julie Bowen developed an eating disorder as a 'coping mechanism' when she was a teenager.
Bowenwas39 when the first season of Modern Family aired. In the show, her character was around the same age, likely born in 1970, the same year Bowen was born.
She has landed a ton of work since breaking out, and her $180 million net worth comfortably places her at the top of this list. Next: Did Modern Family Destroy Ariel Winter's Acting Career?
Due to her ongoing health problems during the filming process of "Modern Family," Sarah Hyland shared that she often wore hair extensions to combat the effects of her medications. In "Modern Family" Season 10 Episode 7, "Did the Chicken Cross the Road?" viewers may be able to tell.
Jay (Ed O'Neil) has been known to hold a grudge against Phil ever since the show began. He believed Phil was never good enough for his baby girl Claire and regretted her marrying him. Despite having a cordial relationship on the surface, Jay never truly accepted Phil as one of his own.
It turns out he is now married and Sal wishes to give her son a dad and Cam, Mitch, Pepper and Ronaldo all offer to be fathers to Sammy which makes Sal happy and tells the guys they are so sweet.
However, while Hyland may have hated Haley's Modern Family ending, the sitcom's biggest mistake was not making Haley pregnant with Dylan's baby. Haley's pregnancy was hated by a lot of viewers and even Hyland herself, but it was a logical extension of the bigger, earlier mistake that the sitcom made with her character.
After 11 seasons on Modern Family, actress Sarah Hyland felt like her character, Haley Dunphy, deserved a better ending than what she was given. After 11 seasons of playing Haley Dunphy on Modern Family, Sarah Hyland hated the way her character's story ended.
After her mother's death Haley struggled with depression but her second pregnancy helped her to recover from it. Haley has been Lucas Scott's best friend for life, he will also eventually become, her brother-in-law, and the godfather of her first born : Jamie Scott.
After six years and more than 130 episodes as One Tree Hill's Peyton Sawyer, Hilarie Burton decided to leave the show that put her on the map due to an allegedly toxic workplace environment.
Haley finds out she is pregnant again, this time with a girl. Clay and Quinn's lives hang in the balance when they are left for dead after Katie shoots the both of them.
“Kelly Kline gives me Claire hair, which some is fake,” she confesses, showing off her blonde clip-in extensions. “Right there, see this part — it clips in, clips out. It's fake!” For more behind-the-scenes of Modern Family, nab a copy of its sixth season, which comes out on DVD on Sept.
Wigs, perms, and hot rollers help shape Claire's historically-accurate hairstyles. Regardless of Claire's on-screen age, wigs were incorporated into her hair and makeup protocol to achieve the character's look.
Did you know that in Modern Family, Joey Bowen, the actress who plays Claire, was 8 and 1/2 months pregnant. when they filmed the first episode? So they did their best to hide it. by having her hold a laundry basket over her stomach.
By the end of Modern Family, Lily is around 12-years-old, the age Luke and Manny were in the first season. However, Lily Tucker-Pritchett never really develops a personality outside of being violently sarcastic.
Sofia Vergara was 36 when Modern started filming, and is now 49. In 2020 she signed on to be a judge on America's Got Talent and is starring in the Netflix series Griselda.
Is Sarah, aka Haley, really pregnant? Sorry, Modern Family fans. Sarah is not pregnant IRL, but she recently dished that she feels like she is carrying a baby or two when she is on set thanks to the fake baby bump — which she described as a "really big leotard with a bowling bowl in it" — she has to wear.
Hyland was born with kidney dysplasia, a condition in which the kidneys don't fully develop in the womb. She had two transplants: First when she was 21 with her father's kidney. After her body rejected it, she quietly had a second transplant, at age 26, with her younger brother's kidney.
What Happened To Sarah Hyland's Face In Season 8 Of 'Modern Family'? Hyland's face was visibly swollen on Modern Family season 8. Some thought she had work done on her face, but she later revealed that it was caused by her health complications. "Sometimes a selfie is more than just a good angle or feelin cute.
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