Los Angeles Sep 26 (IANS) The cast of "Modern Family" was given a pre-Halloween fright courtesy TV personality Ellen DeGeneres.
The incident happened when Ed O Neill Sofia Vergara Julie Bowen Ty Burrell Jesse Tyler Ferguson Eric Stonestreet Sarah Hyland Ariel Winter Nolan Gould and Rico Rodriguez appeared on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" on Tuesday.
During the interview DeGeneres shared a video of Stonestreet scaring the cast on the set of the sitcom reports ew.com.
In the footage the actor is seen hiding in the parking lot of the production and shouting "boo!" as Bowen and O Neil arrive for work. He also sneaks into the make-up trailer causing Vergara to shriek. When he does the same to Burrell however he remains unfazed simply reacting with "Hey Eric" without looking up.
In a later segment DeGeneres gives the entire cast a jump having someone in a clown costume emerge from a box as the group assembles for a photograph.
The special episode also looked back at 10 years of the "Modern Family" which is aired in India on Star World.

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