{"id":57647,"date":"2025-08-04T12:28:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T12:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/57647\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T12:28:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T12:28:18","slug":"ty-burrell-has-no-regrets-leaving-hollywood-after-modern-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/57647\/","title":{"rendered":"Ty Burrell has &#8216;no regrets&#8217; leaving Hollywood after &#8216;Modern Family&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One big happy family.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cModern Family\u201d star Ty Burrell, 57, recently admitted that he has \u201cno regrets\u201d ditching Hollywood for Utah following his success on the popular ABC sitcom.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just been spectacular,\u201d he told <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/ty-burrell-has-no-regrets-about-leaving-la-for-utah-exclusive-11782621\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">People<\/a> in an interview published Sunday, August 3.<\/p>\n<p>Ty Burrell as Phil Dunphy in the final season of \u201cModern Family.\u201d ABC via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Ty Burrell at the Barker Hanger on September 28, 2019, in Santa Monica, California.  Getty Images for P.S. ARTS<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe moved here right after [\u201cModern Family\u201d] ended, and I don\u2019t have any regrets,\u201d Burrell added. \u201cIt\u2019s been lovely and a great place to raise the kids.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cBlack Hawk Down\u201d actor and his wife, Holly Burrell, 50, left Los Angeles for Salt Lake City in 2020 following <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/04\/03\/modern-family-director-says-cast-was-part-of-something-special\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the 11th and final season of \u201cModern Family.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Since the move, they have raised their teen daughters, Frances, 15, and Greta, 13, and have committed to a new \u201coutdoorsy\u201d way of life.<\/p>\n<p>Ty Burrell attends the 2023 Kids in the Spotlight film awards at Paramount Pictures Studios on November 4, 2023, in Los Angeles, California.  Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>However, Burrell admitted that life in Utah is a big change compared to the more than ten years he spent living in Hollywood while filming \u201cModern Family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_13-0\">\u201cMy parents weren\u2019t really those kinds of people,\u201d the \u201cOut of Practice\u201d star said regarding life in the mountains.<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_15-0\">\u201cSo 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,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Ty Burrell and his wife, Holly Burrell, at the 69th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards at Microsoft Theater on September 17, 2017, in Los Angeles, California.  WireImage<\/p>\n<p>Burrell, who starred as goofy real estate agent Phil Dunphy in all 11 seasons of \u201cModern Family,\u201d previously opened up about his wife and how they\u2019ve managed their 25-year marriage earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is probably connected to the really old axiom of \u2018Don\u2019t go to bed angry,\u2019 but we force ourselves to talk about stuff,\u201d he told <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/ty-burrell-reveals-relationship-rule-he-has-with-wife-holly-exclusive-11704799\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">People<\/a> in March. \u201cBoth of us make sure that if something\u2019s wrong, by the end of the night, we have at least had some discussion about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNeither one of us are silent treatment people, and I think that\u2019s a real benefit, because I think that can be really hard on a relationship, when you don\u2019t talk about things,\u201d Burrell said.<\/p>\n<p>Ty Burrell and his wife, Holly Burrell, attend the NYC premiere of \u201cRough Night\u201d on June 12, 2017, in New York City.  WireImage<\/p>\n<p>Much like real life, Burrell starred as a family man in \u201cModern Family.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>He was married to Claire Dunphy (Julie Bowen), and the on-screen couple shared Haley (Sarah Hyland), Alex (Ariel Winter) and Luke (Nolan Gould).<\/p>\n<p>Ed O\u2019Neill (Jay Pritchett), Sof\u00eda Vergara (Gloria Delgado-Pritchett), Rico Rodriguez (Manny), Jesse Tyler Ferguson (Mitchell Pritchett) and Eric Stonestreet (Cameron Tucker) <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/02\/24\/entertainment\/sag-awards-2024-ed-oneill-misses-modern-family-money\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">rounded out the cast,<\/a> and the show went on to win a total of\u00a022\u00a0Primetime Emmy Awards throughout its 11-season run.<\/p>\n<p>Ariel Winter, Nolan Gould, Ty Burrell and Julie Bowen in a scene from the two-part series finale of \u201cModern Family.\u201d ABC via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Although Burrell has largely stayed out of the spotlight since \u201cModern Family\u201d ended, he did break cover for a <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/03\/03\/entertainment\/how-jesse-tyler-ferguson-guilt-tripped-ty-burrell-to-attend-modern-family-sag-awards-reunion-at-last-minute\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cModern Family\u201d reunion at the 2024 SAG Awards<\/a> after Ferguson twisted his arm to attend.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, several fans of the show <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/03\/26\/entertainment\/ty-burrell-reacts-to-modern-family-fans-thinking-hes-dead\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">thought Burrell had passed away<\/a> after he failed to appear for a previous reunion that the award-winning cast organized.<\/p>\n<p>While the \u201cIncredible Hulk\u201d actor has mainly stuck to voiceover work in the years since leaving Hollywood, he did recently launch a podcast series, titled \u201cThe Good Life,\u201d that is loosely based on his own childhood.<\/p>\n<p>Ariel Winter, Ty Burrell, Sarah Hyland, Julie Bowen and Rico Rodriguez of \u201cModern Family\u201d during a panel in Los Angeles on January 8, 2020. Penske Media via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>However, Burrell has not ruled out an eventual return to the big or small screen following his new podcast project.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m starting to get the itch again to perform,\u201d he told People. \u201cI\u2019ve mostly done voiceover work and things like this podcast. And if it accidentally works, I\u2019d love to do a second season.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was such a fun process and has so many great people in it,\u201d Burrell concluded. \u201cI hope people check it out.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One big happy family. \u201cModern Family\u201d star Ty Burrell, 57, recently admitted that he has \u201cno regrets\u201d ditching&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57648,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[1508,236,5654,88,1506,640,92,43425],"class_list":["post-57647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-actors","tag-celebrities","tag-celebrity-families","tag-entertainment","tag-hollywood","tag-modern-family","tag-tv","tag-ty-burrell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}