The fact that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney watches “Modern Family” came as a surprise to Jesse Tyler Ferguson, who plays a gay dad on the ABC sitcom.

“Well I hope Mitt Romney is wondering why he likes the show so much,” the red-haired actor told New York Magazine earlier this week.

Source: Politico

Jesse Tyler Ferguson, in his Friday appearance on “The Ellen Show,” dished all about Aubrey Anderson-Emmons, his new on-screen daughter, saying that she was a bit existentially overwhelmed on her first day on set — and quite intrigued by one of her co-stars.

“First of all, she’s obsessed with Sofia’s… area,” Ferguson laughed, pointing at his own chest. “And she was basically just manhandling her, just poking. She was just like, poking, prodding… All the stagehands were like, ‘You’re so lucky.’”

PopSugarTV has an awesome new video of Nolan Gould talking about Modern Family’s season premiere at PopSugar.

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Poor Ed O’Neill has endured a long streak of snubs before journeying to the Emmys, but now it looks like it could pay off Sunday with the ultimate Hollywood happy ending: an Emmy win.

According to predictions at GoldDerby, O’Neill is in second place to take home the award for comedy supporting actor. Experts, editors and users have “Modern Family” costar Ty Burrell out in first place, with Chris Colfer (“Glee”) in third, last year’s winner Eric Stonestreet (“Modern Family”) in fourth, Jesse Tyler Ferguson (“Modern Family”) in fifth and Jon Cryer (“Two and a Half Men”) in last place.

Source: LA TIMES

As TV kids grow up, they sometimes need to be replaced. That’s the case with the role of Lily, the pint-size daughter in the ABC hit series “Modern Family,” as it begins its third season. Welcome the new Lily: Aubrey Anderson-Emmons, 4, who replaces the original twins who played the child as a baby and toddler.

Read about Aubrey’s family in the Star Tribune

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Modern Family has taken another step toward re-casting Baby Lily: The ABC comedy is spreading the word around the casting community that it is looking for an “Asian, 3-to 4-year-old” to play the daughter of Mitchell and Cameron. The role is currently played by Jaden and Ella Hiller, the docile and very quiet twins who have traded off portraying Lily for the last two seasons.

There is still a chance the Hillers will stay on the show, but the writers want to keep their options open.

Read the full story on EW

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“Modern Family,” last year’s top comedy series, was the most-nominated sitcom with 17 bids.

“Modern Family,” which should be favored to repeat as best comedy, once again dominated the supporting acting categories with Julie Bowen and Sofia Vergara representing the show on the women’s side and Ed O’Neill, Eric Stonestreet, Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Ty Burrell earning nominations for the men. O’Neill’s nomination was particularly satisfying, since he was the only member of the show’s main cast be excluded last year.

Source: Mercury News

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The cast of “Modern Family” recently guested on “Inside the Actors Studio,” telling stories and trading laughs with the venerable James Lipton. One most interesting phrase that came up was “gay for pay,” which is how Jesse Tyler Ferguson describes his Emmy-winning on-screen husband, Eric Stonestreet.

“He’s straight in real life, and they pay him X amount of dollars to be gay! And wouldn’t anybody?”

Source: Huffington Post

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There’s a very good chance that all six of last year’s Emmynominees for best supporting comedy actor will return. That means the “Modern Family” trio likely will be back: Ty Burrell,Jesse Tyler Ferguson and 2010 winner Eric Stonestreet.

BEST SUPPORTING COMEDY ACTOR
(Front-runners)
Ty Burrell, “Modern Family”
Chris Colfer, “Glee”
Jon Cryer, “Two and a Half Men”
Jesse Tyler Ferguson, “Modern Family”
Neil Patrick Harris, “How I Met Your Mother”
Nick Offerman, “Parks and Recreation”
Mike O’Malley, “Glee”
Ed O’Neill, “Modern Family”
Oliver Platt, “The Big C”
Eric Stonestreet, “Modern Family”

Read the full story on The Envelope

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