Ed O'Neill reveals what started the bitter quarrel with the co-star of "Married ... with children"

The modern family actor and Amanda Bearse have disagreed for years.


Married to children co-stars Ed O'Neill And Amanda Bearse Clearly indicated over the years that they did not agree while they played neighbors in the long sitcom. Now he has shed new light on their same longer -term quarrel . In a recent interview, O'Neill revealed the event which, according to him, led to tensions with Bearse - and this new explanation differs from what he said about their quarrel before. According to the 77 -year -old actor, it all started with a magazine cover shoot.

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As indicated by Page six , O'Neill recently appeared on Dinner is on me ,, a podcast animated by its Modern family co-star Jesse Tyler Ferguson . In the episode, he talked about Fall with beard And how it was linked to a Married to children Photoshoot for television guide .

"I did something on the show that involved Amanda Bearse that I regretted," said O'Neill. "We didn't get along, but we've been doing it for a long time. We were great friends. And I could guess, I don't want to talk to her, but it started when we got the cover of television guide . ""

O'Neill explained that Bearse and David Garrison Were not invited to be on the cover because they were not part of the Bundy family. (They played Marcy and Steve Rhoades, the neighbors of Bundy.) He said that the magazine had a rule on the number of people could be on the coverage, although the publication made exceptions in some cases. According to O'Neill, Bearse wanted him to defend him and garrison and ask them that they be included. AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

"We were lucky to get it. It was like the sixth year or something, and we were delighted to obtain the coverage of television guide . He was tall. And Amanda and David came out in unison with their locker room, "said O'Neill." We were on the sound scene, and she said: "We expect you to go to [Co-creator] Ron Leavitt And tell him that it doesn't work. We are all on the cover. '"

O'Neill did not go to fight for them, which he regrets now. According to the Daily Beast, Ferguson asked if he would do things differently If he could go back in time. "Yeah, I would have done it. And that's my regret," said the star.

Ed O'Neill and Amanda Bearse on
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However, the comments passed O'Neill made About their quarrel point another reason. In 2013, he told the American television archives that he and Bearsus heard well during the first three years of the show. "I don't know who it was the fault. We just separated a little," he said at the time. He then blamed Bearse's sexuality for a change in his personality.

"I must say that when she started, she was gay - she had been gay for a long time - she was more or less the couple's wife," said O'Neill in 2013. "She was very, very feminine and cute ... So That she became more masculine, she became a little more sarcastic. "O'Neill said that Bearse had not invited her to her marriage, because she thought he would laugh at two women get married.

The actor also recalled an era when they presented themselves on an argument on the set. She called him a "tyrant", when he told her that she was not "brilliant". He explained that he continued to say to him: "" I have a button that I can press, this button says: "Get rid of Amanda Bearse". You don't have a button that says, "Get rid of Ed O'Neill". Your button does not work. Now it was a nasty thing to say. I was never going to press this button, but it was true! ""

As for Bearse, she approached her relationship with O'Neill during a fans agreement in 2018.

"I am the Thumper's rule: if you don't have something nice to say, say nothing at all," she said. Bearse said that O'Neill "was not happy with the end of the series, which affected everything" and said that there was "no love lost there".

"Yeah. Large actor, a big actor," she added.

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