Sofia Vergara has been called out by a Modern Family co-star as the ‘rudest celebrity’ she’s ever encountered.
The 52-year-old actor starred as Gloria Delgado-Pritchett in the much-loved comedy, alongside the likes of Julie Bowen, Ty Burrell, Sarah Hyland, and Nolan Gould.
While Vergara is very much praised for her role in Modern Family, one actor who has previously worked with her is certainly not a fan.
Kelly Mantle has opened up about her experience working with Vergara after she joined the Modern Family cast for a guest appearance as a drag queen in the 2019 episode ‘The Last Halloween’.
Speaking on The Bald and the Beautiful podcast with Trixie and Katya, Mantle dubbed Vergara the ‘rudest celebrity‘ she’s ever met after a whole fiasco with a wig and her general treatment of staff.
She said: “It was not the most pleasant experience I’ve ever experienced. It wasn’t toward me. It was the way that some of her staff were being treated.
“In the episode, she’s wearing a wig, and they kept wanting to put bobby pins in it, and she kept telling them no bobby pins.”
A scene then follows involving Mantle and Vergara, but it really doesn’t go to plan, according to Vergara.
“They yell action, and I’m supposed to put the crown on her hair. So I put the crown on, and then they say cut, and she’s like, ‘Watch out for the wig! You’re putting the crown on my head!'” Mantle added.
While Mantle acknowledged Vergara wasn’t the nicest on that particular set, she did concede the actor may have just been having a bad day.
“Maybe it was a bad day. I’m just going to say it was a bad day. Because she’s hilarious, and beautiful, and talented, and gorgeous. I’m sure it was a bad day,” she said on the podcast.
LADbible Group has reached out to Vergara’s representatives for comment.
It comes after the actor made all the headlines after her reaction to missing out on a Golden Globe to Jodie Foster went viral.
As Foster went up on stage to collect her accolade for Best TV Actress, Vergara was heard saying from the audience: “No, no! Not again! Give me one!”
A body language expert broke down Vergara’s reaction amid a lot of noise online.
Darren Stanton, for Betfair Casino, said: “Jodie Foster and Sofia Vergara shared mutual laugh during ‘light-hearted’ heckling.
“Jodie Foster being heckled by Sofia, is quite interesting.
“You’ve got Vergara who lost out, and Jodie’s a tough cookie. We didn’t see the classic signs of contempt, but what we did see is duper’s delight, which is when someone feels they’ve got away with something.
“Because Jodie knows her position in Hollywood, she flashes this big smile, it more or less signifies her position as a Hollywood megastar.”
