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“Modern Family” Star Eric Stonestreet has married longtime partner Lindsay Schweitzer.
“This is my birthday, guess what I got.” A set of moments Start with the big day for the couple.
Stonestreet and Schweitzer married at their Kansas City, Missouri home.
“Of course of all the second marriages, this is my favorite! I love you both! I’m happy for you!!!” commented his “modern family” husband, Jesse Tyler Ferguson.
“Modern Family” star Eric Stonestreet
“Modern Family” actor Eric Stonestreet married his longtime partner Lindsay Schweitzer. (Lisa O’Connor/AFP via Getty Images)
Stonelet reveals his plan Wed Schweitzer In July, they built a new home in Kansas City.
The actor told people Magazine. “We’ve almost finished the house and that’s been our plan.”
“We got engaged and then suddenly had the opportunity to build a house, and I think there is no better way to build a relationship than literally building a foundation. So that’s our plan, we’re still working on it.”
Eric Stonestreet and Lindsay Schweitzer attended the premiere of “Dexter: Resurrection” on July 9. (Theo Wargo/Getty Images)
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Eric Stonestreet and Lindsay Schweitzer met in 2016 while attending a charity event. (Bruce Glikas/Wireimage)
After five years of dating, Stonestreet proposed to Schweitzer in 2021.
He previously told Life magazine: “We’ve been together for a long time and I just knew I wouldn’t find a better partner than Lindsay.”
“So it just makes the most sense. I took my sweet past. So, it’s time.”
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this “Modern Family” star After starring in the ABC sitcom, he became famous. The show lasted 11 seasons from 2009 to 2020.
Stonestreet met with Schweitzer during his 2016 major charity weekend in Kansas City.
The two are long distance away, while Stonestreet filmed the remaining “modern family” season. Once the show was wrapped up in 2020, Stonestreet moved back to Kansas City.
Eric Stonestreet starred in “The Modern Family” as Cameron Tucker. (Peter “Hopper” Stone/Disney General Entertainment via Get Images)
Last year, Stonestreet admitted that Hollywood life is not everything. Compared to Hollywood, the actors reflect different characters from the Midwest.
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“What I realize is that it highlights everything great about our business, entertainment business,” Stonestreet shared on “Deepness with Graham Bensinger.”
“It highlights all the D—– bags in our business. It amplifies it. Because I’m here, I’m dealing with people here…I’m going to the store and have all these real moments.”
He continued, “And I went to Hollywood…you remembered some of the people you deal with.”
When the Kansas City native moved to Los Angeles to start his acting career, he added that there are some benefits in Hollywood.
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“But then you can also serve fruit on a big board,” he stressed. “‘You want some lychees and kiwis, sir?’ Like, yes, this is a great thing in Hollywood…so, it’s really fun to have [Kansas City] Going back to do something is almost more fun than living there.
Stephanie Giang-Paunon of Fox News Digital contributes to this report
