When "Modern Family’s" eldest daughter Haley Dunphy ditched who viewers felt was her soulmate (Andy, played by Adam Devine) and instead went with the handsome but goofy Dylan (Reid Ewing), the disappointment was real. The knife was twisted further by where she ended up in the show’s final episode.

By the end of the long-running sitcom, Haley’s screen time had been shortened, and her arc became centered around being a wife and mom.




On X in January 2020, a fan asked why Haley had been missing from so many episodes that season.

Hyland’s reply? “Apparently I’ve been busy with the twins,” she wrote, punctuating her post with an emoji of a woman holding her hands up in confusion.




Speaking with with Cosmopolitan a few months later, Hyland articulated her disappointment with her character's ending. She wished that Haley had been able to “own her badassery in the fashion world — becoming a badass stylist or brand mogul or anything like that.”

She continued, “No offense to moms, of course: There are so many amazing mothers who are also hard workers and excel at their jobs and kill it every day in both aspects. That would have been a really cool thing to see, especially from someone like Haley.”

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