14 DAY TRIAL // A short while back, in their For Your Consideration Emmy ad, producers of “Modern Family” promised star Sofia Vergara would take it all off and go for a run in the streets of Hollywood if the show won.
They were gunning for Outstanding Comedy Series, which is precisely one of Emmys the show won during the awards ceremony that took place on Sunday at the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles.
The ad promised Sofia would take off her clothes and run down Sunset Boulevard, which, understandably, would have been an event none of her male (and not only) fans in the US would have missed.
Sadly, People magazine says, Sofia already did the clothe-less run – and it happened shortly after the win, when she was certain no one would be on the Boulevard or, for that matter, keeping an eye on her.
On the bright side, this does offer confirmation that both Vergara and the producers are men (and women) of their word, even if there’s no actual evidence the victorious run took place.
“The ad did, however, in tiny print, have a disclaimer that the ‘cast member may change without notice,’ but Vergara says she’s one to make good on an offer – and even claimed she’d already done the run,” People writes.
“‘Yes, I mean, I’m fast. I run fast,’ she told a skeptical Billy Bush after the show won the award. ‘They zipped me and they sent me to do press’,” the same publication further informs.
According to co-star Julie Bowen, who also made a similar pledge but was happily not forced to honor it, Vergara did keep her promise. The run lasted about 20 minutes.
“When we went back to the press room, she had made a left turn and we all made a right turn. So for about 20 minutes, she was missing,” Bowen says for the magazine.
“I went to run nude down Sunset Boulevard. No one was there. So I did it. It’s over… No one said I had to do it at a certain time,” Sofia reportedly told her co-star when she came back and was asked about her whereabouts for the past 20 minutes.
See the Emmy ad for “Modern Family” as it came to print in movie-oriented magazine Variety here.