{"id":42911,"date":"2025-08-03T19:55:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T19:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/42911\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T19:55:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T19:55:17","slug":"modern-family-star-moved-family-to-salt-lake-city-after-sitcom-ended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/42911\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Modern Family&#8217; star moved family to Salt Lake City after sitcom ended"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles!\n  <\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Ty Burrell played the ultimate dad, Phil Dunphy, on the hit television sitcom, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/entertainment\/genres\/sitcom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">&#8220;Modern Family.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Shortly after the popular show wrapped, Burrell and wife Holly packed up their lives in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/los-angeles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Los Angeles<\/a> for the opportunity to raise their daughters in Utah.<\/p>\n<p>Burrell, 57, now says he has no regrets about moving away from Hollywood for a quieter life in Salt Lake City.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/modern-family-star-ariel-winter-fled-l-a-escape-trauma-childhood-stardom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">\u2018MODERN FAMILY\u2019 STAR ARIEL WINTER FLED LA TO ESCAPE TRAUMA FROM CHILDHOOD STARDOM<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ty-burrell-modern-family.jpg\" alt=\"Ty Burrell wears grey sweater on Modern Family.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Ty Burrell starred as Phil Dunphy for 11 years on the Emmy Award-winning sitcom, &#8220;Modern Family.&#8221; (Disney Archives)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s just been spectacular,&#8221; Burrell told <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/ty-burrell-has-no-regrets-about-leaving-la-for-utah-exclusive-11782621\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">People magazine<\/a> about his family&#8217;s new lifestyle in Utah.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We moved here right after [&#8216;Modern Family&#8217;] ended, and I don&#8217;t have any regrets. It&#8217;s been lovely and a great place to raise the kids.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Good Life&#8221; voice actor admitted he is &#8220;itching&#8221; to get back in front of the camera, but for now, his voiceover work enables more time for activities, despite growing up without a love of the great outdoors.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My parents weren&#8217;t really those kinds of people,&#8221; Burrell confessed.<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ty-burrell-wife-holly.jpg\" alt=\"Modern family star Ty Burrell wears black tuxedo on Emmys red carpet with wife Holly.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Ty and wife Holly Burrell have two teenaged daughters. (Jon Shearer)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So at first, when we moved here, it almost felt like cosplay, like we were pretending to be people who were outdoorsy, and now we really truly love it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Burrell isn&#8217;t the only &#8220;Modern Family&#8221; star who left the City of Angels after the series wrapped in 2020.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">LIKE WHAT YOU\u2019RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Burrell&#8217;s co-star <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/ariel-winter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Ariel Winter<\/a> also ditched Hollywood for a quieter life after negative comments about her body took a toll on her self-esteem.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was just everywhere,&#8221; she told <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/modern-family-ariel-winter-left-los-angeles-to-build-new-life-after-traumatic-childhood-exclusive-11729163\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">People magazine<\/a>. &#8220;It was every headline I read about myself, like, grown people writing articles about me saying how I looked terrible or pregnant or like a fat s&#8212;. I mean, I was 14. It totally damaged my self-esteem.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/modern-family.jpg\" alt=\"Cast of Modern Family in 2009\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Modern Family,&#8221; aired from 2009 to 2020, and in that time, won 22 Emmy Awards. (Bob D&#8217;Amico\/Disney General Entertainment Content)<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ariel-winter.jpg\" alt=\"Ariel Winter then and now split\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Ariel Winter faced negative backlash while growing up in front of the camera on &#8220;Modern Family.&#8221; (Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I understood what it was like to be hated,&#8221; Winter added. &#8220;No matter what I was going through, I was a target. It made it very difficult to look at myself in the mirror and go, \u2018I love this version of me.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Winter&#8217;s childhood wasn&#8217;t only marred by the harsh lights of Hollywood. The young actress was allegedly abused by her mother, who has denied the allegations.<\/p>\n<p>At the age of 14, Winter was placed with her sister, Shanelle Gray, after being removed from her home by Child Protective Services.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I went on to have a great rest of my teenage years thanks to being under her custody,&#8221; Winter told the outlet.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/newsletters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT NEWSLETTER<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Eric Stonestreet, known for his role on the show as Cameron Tucker, confessed last year that Hollywood life isn\u2019t all it\u2019s cut out to be.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After working on the popular sitcom for 11 seasons, Stonestreet, 53. left Los Angeles to head back to his home in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/us-regions\/midwest\/kansas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Kansas City<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/eric-stonestreet.jpg\" alt=\"Eric Stonestreet\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Eric Stonestreet also pursued life outside of Hollywood post show, and moved back to Kansas City. (Walt Disney Television)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What I realized it does is it highlights everything great about our business, the entertainment business,&#8221; Stonestreet shared on &#8220;In Depth with Graham Bensinger.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And it highlights all the douchebaggery of our business. It amplifies it. Because I\u2019m here, I\u2019m dealing with people from here \u2026 I\u2019m going into the store and having all these authentic, real moments.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He continued, &#8220;Then I go to Hollywood \u2026 and you\u2019re reminded of some of the types of people that you deal with.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While the Kansas City native moved to Los Angeles to jump-start his acting career, he added there were some perks to living in Hollywood.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/apps-products\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But then you\u2019re also offered fruit on a big board,&#8221; he emphasized. &#8220;\u2018Would you like some lychee and kiwi, sir?\u2019 It\u2019s like, oh, yeah, this is what\u2019s great about Hollywood.\u2026 So, it\u2019s really fun. It just amplifies it. It\u2019s like, leaving [Kansas City] and going back and doing something is almost more fun than it was living there, doing it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Stonestreet starred alongside co-stars Ed O&#8217;Neill, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/sofia-vergara-modern-family-co-star-ed-oneill-bad-habit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Sofia Vergara<\/a>, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Julie Bowen, Sarah Hyland and more.<\/p>\n<p>When asked if he thinks the ship &#8220;sailed in terms of a \u2018Modern Family\u2019 spin-off,&#8221; Stonestreet replied, &#8220;I don\u2019t think it\u2019s potential anymore.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0&#8220;Well, they had their chance. Chris Lloyd and a couple of the writers wrote a really great script that spun Jesse and I off in our life in Missouri, and they said, \u2018No.\u2019 They just said, \u2018We don\u2019t want to do it.\u2019&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fox News Digital&#8217;s Lauryn Overhultz and Stephanie Giang-Paunon contributed to this report.<\/p>\n<p>Tracy Wright is an entertainment reporter for Fox News Digital. Send story tips to Tracy.Wright@fox.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! 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