Ariel Winter has moved in with her former Modern Family brother Nolan Gould in Los Angeles after ending her relationship with Luke Benward four days before an interview published on May 18. The 28-year-old actor said she now rents a house with Gould and sees him every day.
“It’s funny because I spend more time out here now and I rent a house with Nolan,” Winter said. “People ask me about a Modern Family reboot, but Nolan and I are real roommates now.” She added, “It’s like we’re having our own little Modern Family reboot, but it’s just the two of us living together.”
The living arrangement gives Winter and Gould a real-life echo of the sitcom that made them household names. On Modern Family, they played siblings, and Winter said the bond has never really gone away. “I’m extremely close to Nolan,” she said. “He plays my little brother, and he and I are still best friends.”
Winter had lived with Benward in Nashville since 2022, so the breakup has brought a sharp change in where she spends her time and with whom. She said she and Gould are close enough to settle into a shared routine, including watching Temptation Island together at night. “I’m not gonna lie, when we sit there at night and we watch, like, Temptation Island together, it’s pretty hilarious,” she said.
That easy domestic setup carries a little sadness underneath it. Winter said the end of Modern Family in 2020 was hard because it meant she would no longer see the cast all the time. “We really were like a real family,” she said. “It was weird knowing it would just be over, and I wouldn’t get to see everybody all the time anymore. It was like, ‘Wait, yeah, wait, we’re not going to be together on Monday?’”
For Winter, the answer to the question her own headline raises is already here: the reboot is not on television. It is in a Los Angeles house, where two former on-screen siblings are back under one roof and, for now, keeping the spirit of the show alive in ordinary life.
