{"id":615052,"date":"2026-09-29T06:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T06:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/615052\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T06:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T06:02:09","slug":"modern-familys-julie-bowen-shares-new-boyfriend-dating-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/615052\/","title":{"rendered":"Modern Family\u2019s Julie Bowen Shares New Boyfriend, Dating Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Adam Sandler and Julie Bowen React to Travis Kelce &amp; Bad Bunny\u2019s Acting Skills in \u2018Happy Gilmore 2\u2019<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/julie_bowen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Julie Bowen<\/a> is leaning into modern love.<\/p>\n<p>Four years after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/modern_family\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Modern Family<\/a> alum said she had called it quits when it came to dating, she revealed she has a new man in her life.<\/p>\n<p>As Bowen told <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/julie-bowen-reveals-she-has-smart-and-funny-new-boyfriend-exclusive-12142105\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">People<\/a> in an interview published Sept. 26, \u201cI have a lovely friend.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Though the 56-year-old kept her new partner\u2019s identity private, she noted he matches the qualities she\u2019s looking for.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI need smart and funny,\u201d she said of the characteristics she looks for in a partner. \u201cI don\u2019t care what people look like\u2014though he happens to be good-looking.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Happy Gilmore actress added, \u201cI like the brains.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bowen was previously married to Scott Phillips from 2004 until their split in 2017. The pair share sons Oliver, 19, and 17-year-old twins Gustave and John.<\/p>\n<p>After finalizing her divorce in 2018, she declared she was \u201cvery single\u201d and closing the dating chapter of her life, even gifting herself a new dog to celebrate the end of that era.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Adam Sandler and Julie Bowen React to Travis Kelce &amp; Bad Bunny\u2019s Acting Skills in \u2018Happy Gilmore 2\u2019&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":615053,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-615052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}