• Eric Stonestreet says that one in every of his Trendy Household costar's relationships impressed him to seek out real love.
• The actor recalled the second to fellow costar Jesse Tyler Ferguson, the place he thought, "I wish to be these individuals."
• Stonestreet ended up marrying his longtime companion Lindsay Schweitzer in a shock ceremony in September 2025.

Trendy Household changedEric Stonestreet's life in additional methods than one.

The sitcom made the Kansas Metropolis-born actor right into a star after he was solid to play the irreverent household man Cameron Tucker in 2009. He gained back-to-back Emmys for the efficiency the next two years, but it surely wasn't till the center of his decade-long Trendy Household run that one other change came across him.

"I had this actually vivid second at a CAA Emmy get together," Stonestreet instructed his former on-screen husband, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, on a latest episode of his Dinner's On Me podcast. "Ty Burrell and [his wife Holly Burrell], Wealthy Sommer and his spouse had been over there sitting down. I'm bebopping across the room, speaking to individuals and assembly individuals and doing what you do. And I’ve this very distinct reminiscence of wanting over and being like, 'I wish to be these individuals.'"

"I do know you relate to this, which is I simply didn't need any person that needed to be on the get together greater than me," Stonestreet instructed Ferguson, who mentioned he understood the sentiment that as a public determine, you want somebody grounded as a counterweight. Ferguson added that he has at all times been "very grateful that I met [husband Justin Mikita] in the beginning of the Trendy Household journey," else he would have had much more dinners like the sort Stonestreet described.

I simply keep in mind pondering, 'That's what I wish to do," Stonestreet continued. "I've instructed Ty, I instructed him that once I referred to as to inform him that we're getting married. I mentioned, you don't realize it, however you and Holly… are very distinguished in me getting on the course of what I needed to do."

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The Burrells met within the Nineteen Nineties, after they had been each aspiring actors in Washington, D.C. They secretly married in 2000, and ultimately adopted daughters Frances and Greta.

Ty instructed Redbook in 2010 that he knew he needed to marry Holly "on our first date. I used to be gradual on the uptake, so it took me a few years." That date? "It was the opening night time of a play we had been in. We had been understudying lovers in Twelfth Night time."

Stonestreet, in the meantime, met pediatric nurse Lindsay Schweitzer at a charity occasion of their hometown of Kansas Metropolis in 2016. Like Burrell, it was love at first sight.

The couple had been engaged in 2020 and had been married in a shock ceremony in 2025.

"After I came upon that you just had been getting married, you referred to as me the day earlier than, or perhaps two days earlier than," Ferguson recounted to Stonestreet, who defined, "I hate saying it, however we didn't invite anybody to our wedding ceremony apart from our household. So the equal to an invite to our wedding ceremony was a telephone name earlier than the marriage, which was like, 'Hey, that is your non-invitation, however it’s because we love you and we wish you to find out about it first.'"

You’ll be able to hearken to Stonestreet and Ferguson's full dialog on Dinner's On Me above.

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