Sarah Hyland poses with her Modern Family dad Ty Burrell, as well as her own dad and husband Wells Adams’ dad in a sweet social media post
Sarah Hyland posted a sweet tribute to the fathers in her life on Sunday.
In a joint post with her husband, Wells Adams, 39, she wrote, “Happy Father’s Day to all the dads in your life! #Father’s Day.’
In the photo, The Wedding Year star, 32, looked absolutely stunning in a calf-length, strapless white dress and white sandals.
Sarah — who recently expressed her support for the Hollywood writer’s strike — stood in front of four men, including Adams and each of their fathers, Edward Hyland and Robert Adams.
And there was another important dad in her life that she photographed: her Modern Family dad Ty Burrell, 55, aka Phil Dunphy.
Modern Family: Sarah Hyland posted a sweet tribute to the fathers in her life on Sunday. In a joint post with her husband, Wells Adams, 39, she wrote, “Happy Father’s Day to all the dads in your life! #Father’s Day
As father and daughter on Modern Family, Burrell and Hyland’s characters had one of the best father-daughter relationships on television.
In fact, Phil van Burrell is often referred to as the “greatest TV dad.” And Modern Family fans just loved watching Hyland pay tribute to Burrell.
“Okay, I cried a little bit because Phil Dunphy is in this,” one user commented.
“Phil is EVERYONE’s father,” another fan wrote, with several others repeating that statement.
Yet another person gushed, “There’s no greater father figure than Phil Dunphy.”
“The fact that Ty is there is really too cute for me,” another fan wrote.
Hyland and Burrell have remained close since Modern Family ended in 2020.
He was due to officiate her wedding in August 2022, but had a family emergency, so another Modern Family alum stepped in to do the deed: Jesse Tyler Ferguson.
TV Family: Sarah played Haley Dunphy, the daughter of Ty Burrell and Julie Bowen’s Phil and Claire Dunphy
TV dad: There was another important dad in her life that she put in the picture: her Modern Family dad Ty Burrell, 55, AKA Phil Dunphy.
Wedding Memories: Burrell was also supposed to officiate her wedding last summer, but had a family emergency. Fellow Modern Family alum Jesse Tyler Ferguson stepped in
“Twelve days before the wedding I got a call and that’s why Ty wasn’t there, he had things going on,” Ferguson recalled. ET at the time.
And the whole idea of it gave Ferguson quite a nerve.
“Everyone was invited and not everyone could make it, but I had 12 days and I was like, ‘Well, no pressure, this is my first time, and then it will be a wedding and it will be in Vogue magazine, and there will be paparazzi too photos of me are from a helicopter, on duty, with no pressure,” he joked.
The actor added that he was “honored to do it,” joking that he was “very happy to underrate Ty Burrell.