Ariel Winter is living with her former Modern Family costar Nolan Gould in Los Angeles, days after confirming her breakup with Luke Benward. Winter said the two now share a house and have slipped into a real-life version of the sibling dynamic that made them familiar to viewers for years.
"It's funny because I spend more time out here now and I rent a house with Nolan," Winter said, adding, "People ask me about a Modern Family reboot, but Nolan and I are real roommates now." She also put the arrangement plainly: "It's like we're having our own little Modern Family reboot, but it's just the two of us living together. So I see him every day."
The move matters because Winter, 27, had been living with Benward in Nashville for four years before the split, and she told People that the breakup happened four days before she spoke about the new setup on May 18. The change places her back in Los Angeles with Gould, 28, after a long stretch in Tennessee and gives her a living arrangement that echoes the show that made both actors known.
Winter and Gould played siblings on Modern Family, and she said the bond between the cast never really disappeared. She said she is "extremely close to Nolan" and that, "He plays my little brother, and he and I are still best friends." In the same comments, she said she and Benward are still "best friends," a detail that softens the breakup even as it marks the end of their shared home in Nashville. For readers who want the earlier version of the story, Winter first described the roomie arrangement in a separate update on Ariel Winter says she and Nolan Gould are roommates after breakup with Luke Benward.
The background helps explain why the living arrangement feels so familiar to her. Winter said the Modern Family cast "really were like a real family," naming Julie Bowen, Sofía Vergara and Jesse Tyler Ferguson as people she stayed close to. She also said it was "hard" when the series ended in 2020, recalling that it felt strange knowing the work would stop and the cast would no longer see each other every Monday. That history now gives the new household an almost scripted quality, even though Winter made clear it is simply two old friends sharing a home.
What comes next is less a public milestone than a private reset. Winter has already answered the question of whether the breakup has changed her ties to Gould: it has not. She says they are roommates, they see each other every day, and the connection that began on screen is still shaping her life off it.
