Sofía Vergara Reveals Where Her Modern Family Character Is Today

Sofía Vergara has a pretty good idea what Gloria’s modern life would look like.

Five years after Modern Family finished its 11 seasons on ABC, the actress explained how she envisions her character would be stepping into a new phase of motherhood, as Gloria and husband Jay (Ed O’Neill) witness Manny (Rico Rodriguez) reach adulthood.

“Jay and Gloria would be getting ready for Manny to already have left for college,” she exclusively told E! News at Food Network’s New York City Wine & Food Festival Oct. 18. “That would have been I’m sure a really, really fun season, to just have now Jay and Gloria together with little Joe.”

And Sofía, 53, can certainly relate to sending a child off to school, as she saw her own son Manolo Gonzalez Vergara head off to Emerson College and graduate in 2015. 

But Manolo himself has some ideas of how Gloria would be keeping busy without Manny at home, telling E! News that Gloria might even be out with them at the 18th anniversary of the food festival, which was presented by Invesco QQQ at The Seaport.

“Or she’d be here with her sauce,” he quipped, with Sofía adding, “Yeah, she’d be selling sauce here in New York.”