Ariel Winter rents with Nolan Gould after Luke Benward breakup

ariel winter is renting a house with Nolan Gould in Los Angeles after ending her relationship with Luke Benward, turning a breakup into a new shared-home setup with her former Modern Family costar. She said the two now see each other every day, which is a sharper post-series reunion than any reboot talk.

"It's funny because I spend more time out here now and I rent a house with Nolan," Winter said in a People interview published May 18. Four days earlier, she had confirmed her breakup with Benward after nearly 6 years together, ending a living arrangement that had kept her in Nashville since 2022.

Los Angeles roommate shift

Winter told People that Gould is now her real-life roommate in Los Angeles. "People ask me about a Modern Family reboot, but Nolan and I are real roommates now," she said, adding, "It's like we're having our own little Modern Family reboot, but it's just the two of us living together. So I see him every day."

The move gives Winter a practical reset after years in Nashville with Benward. It also keeps her tied to a familiar work relationship: Gould played her brother on Modern Family, and Winter said in May 2025 that she is "extremely close to Nolan" and that he remains her best friend.

Modern Family after 2020

Winter said the cast was "like a real family," and the series ending in 2020 made the separation feel abrupt. "We really were like a real family," she said. "It was weird knowing it would just be over, and I wouldn't get to see everybody all the time anymore. It was like, 'Wait, yeah, wait, we're not going to be together on Monday?'"

That history explains why the roommate arrangement lands as more than a celebrity housing note. Julie Bowen, Sofía Vergara and Jesse Tyler Ferguson were part of the same on-screen group, but Winter's setup with Gould is the only concrete post-breakup change in the facts here: two former sibling roles now sharing a house in the same city where she is spending more time.

What Winter said next

For readers tracking Winter's next move, the key fact is simple: she has already shifted her home base back to Los Angeles and is living with Gould. The breakup with Benward happened four days before May 18, so this is the immediate change to watch — a new roommate arrangement replacing a relationship that lasted nearly 6 years.