Despite the fact that news has broken a significant character will be killed off on Modern Family in the upcoming season, Sofía Vergara isn’t scared that her character will be getting the boot. Well, strike that — she isn’t scared of the Grim Reaper coming for her character, but she does have some funny ideas about how Gloria Delgado-Pritchett would get written off if her number were called.
On Tuesday, the entire original cast — Ed O’Neill, Julie Bowen, Ty Burrell, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Eric Stonestreet, Sarah Hyland, Ariel Winter, Nolan Gould, Rico Rodriguez and, naturally, Vergara — appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. When DeGeneres inquired about which character might be on the chopping block, Vergara chimed in, “I didn’t get nervous when I heard somebody was.”
“You didn’t?” responded DeGeneres, sounding surprised. To which Vergara responded, “If I had heard somebody was going to get deported, then I would. It would either be Rico or me. I think Rico would go first."
I don't know a thing abut this TV series, and I certainly do not wish to give that carpet muncher Ellen any publicity. But I always wondered how they come up with these scripts to have someone killed off.