One little girl from Liverpool, England, may have celebrated her 10th birthday party amid the COVID-19 lockdown, but the "Modern Family" cast helped make it a happy day.
The world found out about Emmy's TV-themed festivities when her dad, John Charles, tweeted a photo showing how she rang in the special occasion on April 14. Turns out she had some of her "favorite people" present: cutouts of the faces of the stars from the hit ABC sitcom.
John Charles told "Good Morning America" via Twitter DMs that Emmy loves "Modern Family" because of "all the characters' different personalities." In fact, Emmy has watched seasons 1 through 10 "three times in a row the past few months" and is "obsessed," he gushed.
"At the party we had a bouncy castle," John Charles recalled, adding that they "arranged for a bouncy castle for our neighbors" to have in their yard "so that they could join in with the fun" while everyone adhered to social distancing measures to help stop the spread of coronavirus.
Emmy's family -- including her mom, Jennifer -- then had pizza with the "Modern Family" cast. Emmy's dad revealed that she "made sure each character had a drink or sweets on their plate," proving that all of her guests -- real or not -- were going to be taken care of.
John Charles' original tweet has gone viral and garnered attention from some familiar faces as Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Eric Stonestreet have replied to send Emmy their best.
"Hey, Emmy. Happy birthday. Thank you so much for inviting me to your birthday party. I had a great time. I'm sorry I was so quiet. I, um, I was just sort of feeling flat that day," Ferguson, 44, who played Mitchell on "Modern Family," joked in a video. He then referenced Stonestreet's character, Cameron, and claimed he "wouldn't stop talking" to him.
"Oh, hi, Emmy. Happy birthday," Stonestreet, 48, replied in a separate video on Twitter, giving a long pause and as he responded to Ferguson's claim in his own hilarious way. "I don't wanna say too much, you know. God forbid I talk to my husband at a birthday party."
Other cast members who replied were Rico Rodriguez (Manny), Aubrey Anderson-Emmons (Lily) and Jeremy Maguire (Joe) as the show's own account also wished Emmy a happy birthday.
John Charles said Emmy cried "a lot" upon seeing all the love being sent her way on social media -- but clarified that they were definitely all "happy tears."
"She couldn't believe they would take time out of their day just for her as she imagines they get tweets asking for birthday messages a lot," he explained, revealing Emmy was "very overwhelmed but felt extremely honored" for the attention. "Now when we watch ‘Modern Family' she says, ‘It's proper strange now that those people on the TV actually know who I am.'"
John Charles also noted he and Emmy have been doing live art classes live on social media for the last four weeks, Monday through Friday at 11 a.m., since kids are out of school.
"She's brightened up so many families' days," he concluded, "and I think this ‘Modern Family' stuff is somehow the universe giving back to her."
