Modern Family’s Eric Stonestreet donates 200k meals to Kansas City food bank amid coronavirus pandemic and urges others to ‘do what they can’
He’s best known for playing Cameron Tucker in ABC mockumentary sitcom Modern Family.
And, Eric Stonestreet has donated 200k meals to a Kansas City food bank amid the coronavirus pandemic and urged others to help ‘if you have the means.’
The Emmy award winning actor, 48, took to Twitter on Thursday to tell his followers about his generous gesture in a bit to motivate others to ‘do what they can’ to help the most vulnerable.
Generous gesture: Eric Stonestreet, 48, has donated 200k meals to a Kansas City food bank amid the coronavirus pandemic and urged others to ‘donate if you have the means’
He tweeted: ‘I am donating 200,000 meals to @HarvestersORG in Kansas City. Lindsay and I love our hometown and want to help do what we can.
‘I’m only posting this to maybe motivate you to do what you can, when you can, if you can, to help vulnerable families in our community during this time.
‘Normally they rely heavily on donated food, but they need the community’s support to make sure they have the resources to help families and children in need.
‘Link to donate if you have the means. https://harvesters.org/coronavirus ,’ concluded the Kansas-born star.
Every bit helps! The Emmy award winning actor, 48, took to Twitter on Thursday to tell his followers about his generous gesture in a bit to motivate others to ‘do what they can’
Spreading the word: Eric included a link for people who’d like to donate to the cause
Harvesters is a regional food bank serving northwestern Missouri and northeastern Kansas.
On Wednesday, Eric took to Instagram to encourage his 1.8 million followers to stay at home with a poem.
Alongside a ‘how to be coronavirus graphic’, he wrote: Don’t be a bonehead. Be at home instead. Don’t be a punk. Hunk(er). Don’t be mean. Quarantine.
‘I’m just spitballing here. Oops bad choice of words there. Brainstorming, I mean. Just be smart and be cool and the new cool is staying home and protecting our grandparents and others, if you don’t have to be out or at work.’
Loving pair: Eric is dating paediatric nurse Lindsay Schweitzer (pictured) following his 2012 split from Broadway star Katherine Tokarz
Doing it with humour: On Wednesday, Eric took to Instagram to encourage his 1.8 million followers to stay at home with a poem
Modern family started modestly in 2009, and has gone on to practically reinvent the family sitcom from the ground up, winning over 20 Primetime Emmys and a Golden Globe along the way.
The show’s last day of filming was in February, with cast members including Sofia Vergara, Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Sarah Hyland taking to Instagram to share some amazing images marking the final time the Dunphys, Tucker-Pritchetts, and Pritchett-Delgados all got together in front of the camera.
Images of empty sets, final fittings and throwback moments to the series’ pilot script all underscored the bittersweet feeling that the cast and crew seemed to share as they brought the Modern Family era in their careers to a close.
Modern Family’s final season will return for its conclusion in April.
Aww: Jesse Tyler Ferguson posted a sweet snap in which he and his onscreen husband, played by Eric, flanked crew and along their on-screen daughter played by Aubrey Anderson-Emmons