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"Modern Family" Dad Ed O'Neill Called Lesbian "Married With Children" Co-Star "Masculine"

Their relationship was reportedly so frosty that O'Neill was one of only two cast members not invited to Bearse's wedding.

Talking to the Television Academy recently, O'Neill says the tension started when Bearse became "more masculine."

"I have to say that when she started out — she was gay, of course. She was gay a long time — she was more or less the female in the couple. You know, she was very, very feminine. And cute."

"And then, as the show — you know, 11 years it went — as it progressed, a change took place where she, then, was the more masculine of the two. You know she had several relationships over that time. And that became kind of interesting because then as she became more masculine, she became a little more snarky, you know, she could grow a tooth, as we used to say."

O'Neill asked Bearse why he and co-star David Faustino were the only cast members not invited. He recalls she told him, "This was a very tough call, but I just feel that you would find it amusing that [we] would come in, in tuxedos, in a church and walk down the aisle—and you and David would be snickering."

He didn't deny it: "'I said, 'Amanda, what is funny about two women in tuxedos walking down the church aisle?' I started laughing. And she said, 'See!' And I said, 'Well, you know why? Because it is fucking funny! And I'm not going to be the only one that thinks so!' So, in other words she may not have been wrong in excluding me."

Wow, we always thought Al Bundy was just a character he played.

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