Sarah Hyland is young, beautiful and on a hit TV show – but the Modern Family actress has been quietly battling a serious illness.

Hyland, 21, has had a lifelong battle with kidney dysplasia and underwent a kidney transplant on April 13, 2012, she reveals in the new issue of Seventeen, on newsstands May 22. 


The actress, who got the kidney from her father and gave the interview while recovering from surgery, says the whole experience taught her who she can really lean on in times of need.


”You know that family is always going to be there for you – no matter what. My dad gave me a freakin’ kidney!” she tells the magazine. “But it’s also the families that you create outside of your family. And you really find out what kind of people you’re friends with.”

Continues the actress: “It was just amazing, and it really opened my eyes to see who’s there for me and who’s not.”

One person who proved he’s there for her is Hyland’s boyfriend, actor Matt Prokop.

“He helps me with my medication and takes me to doctor appointments and all the stuff that I need to do to take care of myself,” Hyland says. “Any other 21-year-old guy would not be there, I guarantee it. I am one of the luckiest people in the world to have him be there for me.”

As for what she’s thankful for, Hyland says, “I have a second chance at life – not a lot of people get that.”

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A stunning Sarah Hyland is featured on the Cover and inside the new issue of H magazine.
The Modern Family young icon has been photographed in Hollywood by the celebrity photographer Joey Shaw.
The cover and the feature reveal a gorgeous and charming Sarah like we’ve never seen before.
I strongly believe: this is what photography is all about: a secret, behind the scenes, connection between the photographer and the model/actress.
One more time signed by Joey Shaw.

ABC isn’t stopping with the Once Upon a Time renewal, no sir!

The network has given notification of pickup to six other series besides OUAT, E! News has confirmed. So who’s in and who’s out?

ABC has renewed four dramas: Once Upon a Time, Revenge, Grey’s Anatomy and Castle, and three comedies: Modern Family, The Middle and Suburgatory.

Read more: http://www.eonline.com/news/watch_with_kristin/abc_renews_seven_series_including/315381#ixzz1uacuyLQB

The Billboard Music Awards is adding a Modern touch for this year’s ceremony.
EW has learned exclusively that Emmy Award-winning pair Julie Bowen and Ty Burrell, best known as Claire and Phil Dunphy on Modern Family, will host the 2012 Billboard Music Awards on May 20.
The pair, who won Emmys in the Supporting Actor categories last year, are following in the footsteps of Community actor Ken Jeong, who helmed the award show and received largely favorable reviews.
The Billboard Music Awards will air on ABC at 8 p.m. ET. And Modern Family airs Wednesdays.

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Downton Abbey‘s Maggie Smith, Modern Family, and Ricky Gervais’s An Idiot Abroad all scored nods for the 2012 BAFTA TV awards. The most nominations went to serial killer thriller Appropriate Adult (not yet broadcast in the U.S.), which netted five noms including acting awards for its stars Dominic West, Emily Watson, and Monica Dolan (Never Let Me Go). Modernized Holmes-and-Watson mystery Sherlock followed close behind with three nominations for leads Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman, plus Andrew Scott as the diabolical Moriarty. Smith will compete to win Best Supporting Actress, while her co-star Hugh Bonneville, though not nominated for Downton, earned a nod for the comedy program Twenty Twelve.

An Idiot Abroad is categorized as “Reality & Constructed Factual,” while Modern Family competes in the international race alongside the Danish inspiration for The Killing, Forbrydelsen. In documentaries, the September 11-based program 9/11: The Day That Changed the World was also acknowledged, and last April’s Royal Wedding could win the BAFTA for “Sport & Life Event” coverage (though I hear fellow nominee Frankenstein’s Wedding: Live in Leeds was positively electrifying).

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In other categories, ABC’s Modern Family took home the GLAAD Award for outstanding comedy series, with star Jesse Tyler Ferguson accepting the honors. The Steve Levitan/Christopher Lloyd comedy shared the honor in the category last year with Fox’s Glee.

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SET the DVR’s Jesse is a guest on Leno Monday Night

Jesse Tyler Ferguson might be a star now, but he remembers sweating it out in front of casting directors.
Says the “Modern Family” actor: “I’ve had many horrible, horrible auditions. They’re tucked away. I try not to remember them.”
Ferguson is revisiting those early tough days in a cameo for “Submissions Only,” a new online scripted sitcom now wrapping up its second season that takes a behind-the-scenes look at the life of theater hopefuls.
Each episode begins with an audition and the one featuring Ferguson — which airs April 27 on BroadwayWorld.com — has him belting out an original song — and crashing and burning.
“It’s sort of the actor’s nightmare,” says Ferguson. “You get in your head too much and you start second-guessing everything too much.”

There’s a new Equality Now set of auctions up – you can bid HERE for a set visit to Modern Family.

This season, audiences will be able to see the entire Modern Family clan travel to Disneyland in an upcoming episode of the show, but one of the show’s stars was recently spotted spending some of his own vacation time at a Disney park as well. Actor Nolan Gould, who plays Luke Dunphy on Modern Family, was recently spotted taking some time off in Walt Disney World.

Gould took some time out of his Walt Disney World vacation to pose with Donald Duck himself at Disney’s Typhoon Lagoon Water Park. Suited up in their swimming gear, the two are seen here giving the “Hang Ten” sign and relaxing at the water park.

Modern Family airs on Wednesdays at 9:00/8:00 central on ABC.

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